I now know what Stiegel scent bottle content's smelled like!!

[Steve/sewell]

I received my two new Stiegel bottles today. I knew when I purchased them that each bottles lids were intact.
This is rare to find complete bottles with their original lids intact.What I did not realize was that each bottle upon
removing their lids had the strong pungent odor of a womans perfume except these are over 245 years old!!
I have taken some pictures of each bottle.On the first botle you can see the orange colored residue and globs
probably of smelling salt which was the most common form of perfume at the time.
The odor eminating from this bottle is strong but pleasant.When you unscrew the lid you immeadiatley smell
the contents of this bottle.It smells like a strong basket of crushed dryed rose hips.

The second bottle with the push pin crown shaped type stopper,you have to place the bottle right against your
nose to smell the contents of this one.The smell from this one is harder to detect but it is there.
I would say a lavender,violet type of smell to it.Here is the first bottle with the screw type lid which twists off easily.

 

[Steve/sewell]

If you look on the lower right of the base here you can see the crystalized orange colored remains of the bottles contents.

 

[Steve/sewell]

This is a picture of the top of the bottle with the lid intact.
All around the top of this bottle are the remains of the orange colored smelling salts.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Here is the top of the bottle with the lid unscrewed.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The lid upside down where you can see the orange pasty remains.

 

[athometoo]

ever thought of contacting a perfumerie to see if the wanted to buy a sample to reproduce it . shootem an email it never hurts to ask . there was an article where they recovered whiskey bottles from antartic expedition and paid lots of money to get the sample to reproduce the original blend of 100 yrs ago . sam

 

[Steve/sewell]

A view looking into the bottles top.You can see through out this area remains of the contents of this bottle.
I know in the colonial times people did not bath any where near the frequency we are supposed to.
These smelling salts were kept in a womans hand bag and applied heavily to sheild the bad bodily odors
we all are capable of producing.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The second bottle here has the neatest top I have ever seen on a Stiegel bottle.
It almost looks like a Kings crown with a push pin at it's base.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The top of this bottle up close.

 

[Steve/sewell]

A view looking into the bottle with the lid removed.Here on this bottle also you can see dull orange
colored remains at the top of bottle.