Manufactured by French Paris-based company COTY, INC. (1904), distributed in Shanghai by GRENARD & COMPANY, L. [alias GRENARD, BETINES AND COMPANY, alias PHARMACIE FRANCAISE]
This specific brand, like most of the French perfumes advertised at the time, appeared excluvisely in the British newspaper North China Daily News. This suggests that the Chinese readers of the Shenbao either could not afford or were not attracted by French perfumes.
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