In this guide I will list the various perfumes & colognes produced by the Herman Tappan Perfume Company of New York.

The Tappan Company was one of the major American perfume companies during the Victorian era. It seems to have been established around 1881 by Herman Tappan in New York City, who was the successor to Corning & Tappan.

Most of Tappan's perfumes & colognes were aimed at the middle class and their prices were affordable. Tappan was very fond of figural perfume bottles and many of the colognes of the era were packaged and sold in these little glass novelties. Some of the more notable figurals from Tappan are baseball bats, ladies boots, legs,hands and slippers, and street lamps. In the 1890s Tappan had two patents on figural perfume bottles.

Tappan perfumes are increasingly hard to find nowadays as original labels are sometimes lost and all we are left with is empty bottles.  The early non-figural bottles are cylindrical in shape and sometimes have the Tappan name embossed along the sides, usually the molded glass stoppers are in the shape of a large letter T. The bottles are generally light aqua color, clear or have turned a sun purple color.

I have looked everywhere for perfumes and colognes by Tappan, I was only able to find a few, if you know of more, please let me know and I will update the guide. I have placed estimated guesses on some of the circa dates for some of the perfumes & colognes, the others I was able to pinpoint from references.

The perfumes of Tappan:

• 1880 Ball Room Bouquet
• 1881 Sweet Bye & Bye
• 1880s Ylang Ylang
• 1880s Dime Cologne
• 1880s Aromia Cologne
• 1890s Little Casino Cologne
• 1890s Bouquet Cologne
• 1890s The League Bat Cologne
• 1892 Beacon
• 1893 Castles in the Air
• 1893 Aroma
• 1898 Army-Navy "Remember the Maine"

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