scented beauty product from the private collection of Fatima Ahmead Obaid Zayed Almogani Alnaqbi, as documented by Suheyla Takesh and Clint McLean (photographer) as a part of Suheyla Takesh's Summer 2014 FIND Fellowship
Object: Beauty Product 004
Type: Perfume (rose extract)
Name: Rose 555, ""Bint Al Bahrain,"" meaning ""Girl of Bahrain""
Place of origin: Bahrain
Date of production: c.1940s - 1950s
Brand name: ""Asgharali"" - This was a well-known brand of beauty products from Bahrain, usually identified by the image of a young girl with flowers in her hair on the package. Women would look for this image as a guarantee of quality when selecting beauty products in a shop or from a merchant.
Materials: glass bottle, plastic cap
Diameter of cap: 1.5 cm
Base dimensions: each side of hexagon is 2 cm
Height: 8.5 cm
Volume: 25 ml