The question is simple: how do you know if a perfume is vintage and in which year it was produced? In
this article we will answer this question in a general way, while in the next articles we will enter more specifically by analyzing the
various most prestigious brands. By definition a perfume is vintage if it is at least 20 years old from the date of production, or to
date all the products made up to 2001. From this definition it can be deduced that every year new products can be considered vintage, and that
the quantity of vintage perfumes is apparently very large. I say apparently, because it is true that every year we have new products that join the vintage collection,
but daily the market removes pieces from this whole.To understand this concept better, try to ask yourself how many 40s or 50s perfumes exist on the market, very few, this is because they were either used or ended up in someone's collections and therefore stolen
from the market , this concept applies to all vintages. Therefore it is true that every year new perfumes are added to the vintage but it is also true that as more dated
products become unavailable until they are completely exhausted and therefore disappear. Do I know if
I have a vintage perfume in my hands? The first thing to do is check the release date of the perfume to be dated: this gives us the departure date, so
in the best case we have the first vintage. It is necessary to check all the elements present on the
box and bottle, from which to draw valuable clues, specifically:
1) The presence of the Estimated sign --- >
℮
2) The presence of the barcode (Barcode)
3) The list
of ingredients (absent, short, long)
4) Batch code
5) The presence of the
Green
Dot
6) In some cases the box
Let's analyze some general cases
If your perfume is NOT features: Estimate sign, barcode, ingredient list and green dot on the box, the perfume was
produced before 1979
If only the estimate sign is present, the production date can be between 1979-1980 and 1989
.
If only the estimated sign and the barcode are present, the production date varies between 1990 and 1992.
With the simultaneous presence
of the previous indicators and the green dot, the production can be between 1992 and 1997.
There is a short list of
ingredients (usually alcohol, water, fragrance), the product can be dated from 1998 to 2002, while from 2003 there is the introduction of the long list of ingredients (including allergens).
In summary:
1) No estimate sign ---- > before1979
2) yes estimate sign ----- > 1980-1989
3) Yes barcode ---- > 1990-1992
4) Yes green dot ---- > 1992-1997
5) Yes short ingredients list ---- > 1998-2003
6) Yes, long list of ingredients ----- > after 2003
These dates
must be taken with a grain of salt especially
in
correspondence with the years of introduction of the various symbols and codes. To refine the dating even more, it is necessary to evaluate the Batch code, which will be treated brand by brand in the next articles, since each company has adopted its own numbering and code system. good dating of the product
and with a little experience we will be able to date our perfumes at a glance. There are sites where you just need to enter the Batch code and
it returns the production date, but it is not very reliable and effective for vintage products, so I invite you not to use them
I invite you to have fun trying to date your perfumes, in order to become familiar and experienced. I also invite you to write to
me in case you find errors in this guide or
wantto add something.
Guides for the main brands will be inserted soon.
This is it.
