WWII: 5 Perfume Vials in Wooden Capsules from Egypt, One with Left-Over Perfume.

These 5 vials of differing sizes were a gift from a South African soldier to his wife after he returned from Egypt having been stationed there during the Second World War.

 In all the vials the smell of the fragrance still lingers and in one of the vials there are still some of the original perfume. The glass vials each fits snugly into their own wooden container with a screw top.The names of the fragrances are written at the bottom of two of the wooden capsules. In one of the screw tops of the smaller containers, there is a thing crack

The label on the biggest vial shows that the perfume was bought from Mahmoud Suliman & Sons from Tarbiah Street in Cairo.

.According to this website https://cleopatrasboudoir.blogspot.com/2013/05/ahmed-soliman-and-shimy-brothers.html Mahmoud Soliman & Son was competing with Ahmed Soliman, who was known as the perfume King of Cairo who sold his perfumes in a store of the bazaar Khan the Khalili. Ahmed Soliman warned his customer to make sure that his full name was on their goods as many others tried to cash in by using the same name:

Ahmed was so fed up with this that he made this declaration in a vintage advertisement.

 "Do not be misled! Remember two words--Ahmed Soliman. Owing to the great number of designing merchants who vainly try to imitate my wares - an impossibility owing to their excellence - and furthermore use a name similar to mine in order to deceive. I have registered in the Courts of Law to obviate such deception entirely. I therefore advise my clients to take great care that my FULL NAME is printed on each article that comes out of my store”

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