Colgate & Co's Cashmere Bouquet Perfume for the Handkerchief advertisement – Vintage Print
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Colgate & Co's Cashmere Bouquet Perfume for the Handkerchief advertisement comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Colgate & Co's Cashmere Bouquet Perfume for the Handkerchief advertisement
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Colgate & Co.'s Cashmere Bouquet is one of the best-known scented products of the nineteenth century, and this advertisement shows how the firm pitched it to buyers: as a dab of fashionable fragrance to be splashed on a handkerchief and carried through the day. Colgate, the New York soap and toiletries maker, began selling Cashmere Bouquet toilet soap in the 1870s, and the perfume line sat alongside it as part of a broader push into personal care goods. Advertisements of this era leaned on refined imagery and genteel language to suggest that a cheap product could carry the polish of upper-class taste. Look closely at how the design frames the scent as a mark of respectability and gentle luxury.
| Original scan | 679 × 969 px |
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| Reference | 857 |
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