DS & Durga + Erika Weiner

DS & Durga perfumes have merged with jewelry designer Erika Weiner to create these beautiful Victorian "vinaigrette" perfume lockets.

Vinaigrette's were perforated lockets or containers with aromatic smelling salts or vinegar inside. A lady could sniff these if she was feeling faint from the unpleasant aromas of 18th and 19th-century urban centers. Later, through the 1920's, solid perfume was used. Possibly the oldest and most common type of vinaigrette involved a square of linen soaked in an aromatic liquid.

I love the idea behind these. They seem so romantic and whimsy but the scents they have created sound so empowering:

FOXHUNT: Based on an antique formula for laying trails in the classic sport of draghunting--a fox-free version of foxhunting. Country herbs, wild flowers, deep leather-patchouli. An aristocratic aroma.

EMPRESS JINGU:For the fearless woman samurai--the 15th Japanese Imperial ruler--who fashioned her sword handle from hinoki wood and waged war among the cypress forests & violet fields.

you can purchase the lockets here and here.