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Vintage Ybry, Fioret and Mÿon Perfumes

by: cleopatra*s_boudoir( 3697Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) Top 100 Reviewer
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In this guide I will discuss the various perfumes presented by Ybry, Myon and Fioret.

Ybry of Paris France, they also had an office in New York City. Ybry perfumes were advertised as being "the most expensive in the world".  Ybry was a luxury perfume house founded in 1925 by a man named Simon Jaroslawski and went into liquidation in 1932. His other two perfumery companies are Fioret and Mÿon, whose perfumes I will also list below.

Jaroslawski collaborated with Baccarat for perfume bottles but also had commissioned Lalique to create some luxurious glass medallions for the perfume bottles for Ybry and Fioret (alternative name of Les Parfums des Jardins de Fioret). Lalique also produced bottles for the Fioret line.

Lalique medallion for Ybry perfume.

Baccarat produced the classic Ybry perfume bottle, a flattened square in colored crystal. These beautiful bottles were made by overlaying colored crystal on white crystal to create an opaque and unique luminescent quality, this same glass was also used for the shortlived Myon perfume line.

Each different color, was related to a particular perfume, and to a different gem.  The colors range from a red to a pink, slag green to a darker green, jet black, orange to butterscotch, deep purple to lavender. Most of the time, the bottles had matching enameled and gilded metal covers. These covers were placed over the inner stoppers at an angle on one corner of the bottle.

The atomizers came equipped with either chrome or gilt brass hardware. The colored bottles had round gold foil embossed labels, the black bottles had square, silver foil embossed labels. This bottle recieved a patent granted on 1925.

Femme de Paris

 

Mon Ame

Devinez

Desir du Coeur

The bottles ranged in size from 7 7/8" tall down to diminutive sample sizes of just 1 3/8" tall. Check your bottles for the Baccarat acid stamp or paper label. The smallest bottles I have read, were not made by Baccarat.

 Rare 7 3/4" bath salts or factice bottle

The presentation boxes were covered with fine leather and often had color-coordinated small triangular segments and luxurious silk tassles. Other boxes looked like little suitcases and were covered in suede , and held multiple presentations, such as three bottles and two atomizers. Another rare example held two bottles, one atomizer and a Lalique medallion attached to the case with a silk tassel.

If your bottle is missing a label, the perfumes of Ybry are easy to figure out from the colors of their bottles:

  • Femme de Paris  in green.
  • Desire du Coeur  in red.
  • Desire du Coeur in pink.
  • Devinez  in orange.
  • Mon Ame  in purple.
  • Amour Sauvage  in black.

The perfumes of  the Ybry line:

  • 1925 Desir du Coeur
  • 1925 Amour Sauvage
  • 1925 Mon Ame
  • 1925 Femmes de Paris
  • 1927 Devinez
  • 1928 Les Bourgeons
  • 1929 Les Fleurs d'Ybry
  • 1929 Un Soir de Ma Vie
  • 1931 Toujours l'Amaint
  • 1932 L'Amour Toujours
  • 1935 Joie de Vivre
  • 1935 Hearts Desire
  • 1939 Odorade
  • 1939 Old Fashioned Garden
  • 1940 French Bouquet
  • 1940 Eau de Cologne
  • 1940 French Cologne
  • 1940 Naturelle
  • 1940 Honeysuckle
  • 1940 Wild Daphne
  • 1944 Palo Alto
  • 1944 The Buds
  • Infusion de Fleurs

The first perfume flacons for Fioret were produced in 1919 by Baccarat, and were made up of clear crystal rectangles with gilded brass caps over inner ground glass stoppers. Bottles were also made by Cristal Nancy. The bottles featured gilded labels with Art Nouveau lettering. The simple light grey boxes bore the Lalique medallions. The bottle for Chose Promise was produced by Lalique in 1924. Fioret perfumes were imported into the USA by F. Salathe & Co of New York starting in 1921.

The perfumes of the Fioret line:

  • 1914 Chypre
  • 1919 Jouir
  • 1919 Prevert
  • 1920 Les Parfums des Jardins
  • 1920 Oui dit Tout
  • 1921 Chose Promise
  • 1921 L'Elan
  • 1921 Legourde
  • 1921 Sweet Pea
  • 1921 Prince Rival
  • 1921 L'Impromptu
  • 1922 Priere
  • 1922 Ambre Byzantin
  • 1922 La Fleur Sacre
  • 1922 Monar
  • 1922 Hommage A La Femme
  • 1922 Fatalitas
  • 1922 L'Au-Dela
  • 1923 La Muse
  • 1923 Le Roy de Paris
  • 1923 Le Dermier Roman
  • 1923 Eau de Cologne des Jardins
  • 1924 Le Muguet
  • 1924 Orchid
  • 1924 Perle Noir
  • 1924 Priere
  • 1924 Chose Promise
  • 1925 Jasmin
  • 1925 Beaujolais

The bottles for the Mÿon line were produced by Baccarat and were of the same opaque overlaid crystal technique as those classic flacons for Ybry. The perfumes often came in a stylized angular Chinese ginger jar type of flacons with an enameled brass cover and label. Original boxes are rare to find.

The perfumes of the very shortlived Mÿon line:

  • 1928 1000 Joies/Mille Joies
  • 1928 Three Passions
  • 1928 Si Different
  • 1928 Femme Moderne
  • 1928 Coeur de Femme
  • 1934 Exaltation
  • 1935 Secret Nocturne
  • 1935 Pois de Senteur

 

Don't forget to look for the vintage advertisements for these perfumes. They make excellent additions to your collection and can be found at reasonable prices on ebay.

Feel free to email me for details or any questions. I also have a perfume identification and appraisal service here on ebay, click on my Me page for details.  Check out the 200+ guides & reviews  I have written on perfumes on ebay. If you have found this guide helpful, click YES below. Thanks!Good luck and have fun collecting!

 I am always looking to add pictures of vintage perfumes to my guides, if you have a picture you would like to see included here, please contact me, credit will be given to the user ID for any picture submitted.

Some pictures used in this guide were provided by the following ebay sellers:

  • marts
  • onceoza
  • missallure
  • sweetantiques1
  • shicosland

Please take a moment to view their current auctions.


Guide ID: 10000000003810742Guide created: 06/14/07 (updated 05/10/09)

 
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