Lajea by Lanvin c1923

Lajéa by Lanvin: launched in 1923. Created by Madame Marie Zede.

"Lajea" is a Brazilian region, but also the beginning of "La Jeanne", almost a truncated signature.

Fragrance Composition:

So what does it smell like?  I have no notes on this perfume, I would need a sample to tell you what it smells like.

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In vintage newspapers of the day, the names of perfumes were often misspelled, as is the case with the ad from 1924 shown below. The names Lajea and Kara Djenoun were misspelled.

Vient de paraître: revue mensuelle des lettres et des arts, 1930: 

"Arpege, Crumpled Petals, Lajea, and Cyprus. Beauty products Jeanne Lanvin, Lanvin- Parfums 4, Rond - Point des Champs - Élysées Paris. Lanvin perfumes are manufactured in its factory in Nanterre."

Bottles:

The perfume was housed inside of the Sevres porcelain boule flacons. They were made to order and contained extracts of Lanvin's leading perfumes - Lajea, La Dogaresse, My Sin, Le Chypre, Comme Ci Comme Ca, J'En Raffole and later, the most famous of all, Arpege.

Vogue, 1927:

The "Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres" has made especially for Lanvin three series of perfume bottles in porcelaine de Sèvres, containing Lajea and Dogaresse. One group, a "special edition," is limited to one hundred bottles in light "bleu de Sèvres" and in "amarante," a golden brown. 

Other flacons were used such as the clear Baccarat crystal bottle emblazoned with the Lanvin mother daughter logo on the front. The ad below shows two sizes of the bottle.

Fate of the Fragrance:

Discontinued, probably by 1930.