It’s no secret that vendors of perfume and vanity items play upon our fantasies. This is an occasional series of articles on various youthful fantasies and themes explored through perfume bottles and vanity items.
While the public can view the images for each theme, only IPBA members can link to the detailed information contained in the Virtual Museum. If you want to see more, Join Us Now!
If your collection includes an item that applies to these themes, please submit them to our Virtual Museum, and we will add them to these pages. See Submission Guidelines.
Because it often grows near water and points its head downward, narcissus represents self-reflection, vanity, and the dangers of self-obsession. And who can forget the cautionary Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection and became a symbol of vanity? Peruse the IPBA’s vanity regarding its collection of Narcissus items.
By the way, did you know that daffodils are a variety of narcissus?
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