Charlie Perfume, Dummy Bottle - Revlon
Object Details
- date made
- after 1973
- maker
- Revlon
- Description
- Brothers Charles and Joseph Revson and chemist Charles Lachman (whose surname provided the “L” in the Revlon name) founded Revlon in 1932 as a company to sell nail enamel. In the following years, the company broadened its product line to include cosmetics and fragrances. Revlon added “Charlie” brand perfume in 1973. The perfume was launched behind an ad campaign that featured model Shelley Hack wearing pantsuits—a change from the dresses and romance in previous perfumery advertising—that was meant to target a more liberated and independent woman.
- Location
- Currently not on view
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Fragrance
- American Enterprise
- Beauty and Health
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ruth Kline
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2009.3030.17
- catalog number
- 2009.3030.17
- nonaccession number
- 2009.3030
- Object Name
- fragrance, display bottle
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- plastic (container material)
- metal (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 6.6675 cm x 4.1275 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_1360354
