6-sided French(?) cologne- any info?

[cyberdigger]

[] Nice old bottle.. that neck is quite some twisted something else.. ..amber striations, I presume?

 

[farmerdan]

Wow the Original "Eau de Cologne" ! If that 'aint some history in a bottle, I don't know what is.....Many thanks to all for your contributions - I saw Gunth had something up before I finished posting my pics! Great job. Yeah Charlie- there is a single amber streak that spirals 360 degrees - that's a full twist neck! That's always been my favorite thing about this piece.
Does anyone know if there were any color variants of this bottle?

Farmer

P.S. I stand corrected: the proper phrase was "Across the pond"

 

[sloughduck]

Always felt guilty attending and buying at bottle shows when the wife had to work.I started picking her up perfumes and colognes.She has quite a collection now.(she has scaled back though) The Farina bottles come in several sizes and shapes.If I can find all her's I will post a pic.

 

[me2]

I have the same bottle. You might also spot on the bottle the address of the factory, Place Julier's No. 4. Jean Marie Farina was born in 1685 and died in 1709. The recipe for the product is still a well-kept secret. Lastly, just as Kleenex and Band-Aid became standard issue names for products of a similar purpose, Jean Marie Farina's factory in Cologne gave the term cologne (which was for men) to all mens perfumery.

 

[deepbluedigger]

A bit like Dalby's Carminative and Turlingtons Balsam, Farina Cologne became a generic product during the 19th century. Kind of like Aspirin today.

The bottles were manufactured in several different European countries (including England - see the attached image from an 1849 catalogue from a glassworks in northern England), and probably also in the US, for sale to anyone who wanted them.

The product (or one that CLAIMED to be the Genuine Original) was manufactured and sold by many druggists and perfumers in North America and Europe in the 19th century, most of whom had no connection at all with the original Farina.

 

[me2]

As to the fake Cologne bottles, I just found another I had forgotten about. Some friends and I discussed the fake Colognes just last evening and we all had a good laugh.

Regarding the Dalby's Carminative, the real one is clear glass, the counterfeit is green. I have both.

 

[me2]

I forgot to mention there was a greenish-blue version of the Dalby's. The genuine is beautifully made but worth less. Also, there are at least two styles of fake Farinas. One reads "a la Place Juliers No. 4" and was made in the mid-1800s while the other reads simply "Place Juliers No.4" and appears to be late 1800s.