A Perfumed Fan, black feathers mounted on black plastic, the upper guard with a gold embossed label "GEMINESSE Fragrance fan Made in Hong Kong", accompanied by a small phial of a heady perfume concentrate for the fan, by Max Factor. Contained in a large shaped fan box that predates the fan, covered in a floral-patterned paper and lined and padded in a beige silky fabric. The underneath exterior is covered with an extract from The Ladies Home Journal, April 1913. This scent was launched in 1974. A note on the fan box indicates that the fan was purchased in Virginia in 1979; C'est La Vie!: thirteen modern advertising fans to include a paper fan with hard black metal frame advertising Le Parfum "C'est La Vie!" by Christian Lacroix, guard 6.75 inches or 17cm. Together with a small modern fan with cream leaf on pale wood sticks, gold lettering promoting "Padparadscha Eau de Parfum Satellite, Paris"; a small black paper advertising fan for "KOH", and three modern fans with plain pale pink paper leaf, for the Dutch fashion designers Victor and Rolph, the scent "Flowerbomb" created in 2005, contained in a plastic advertising sleeve and accompanied by a leaflet showing the bottles and fashion in the signature pink; a modern lacquer boxed fan set for the Japanese Kanebo company the outer lid printed with fans and paeonies, holding four modern fans in black fabric sleeves: three floral modern fans by the luxury fashion and fragrance company Loewe, each boxed, for "L by Loewe", "Aura" and" Aire" (15)
NB: The Lacroix fan was also issued in the 5 inch or 12.5cm size
LAC1; not recorded; not recorded in the research