Myclaireburke

I am pleased to write the first review of Claire Burke. I consider this company to be a Hall of Famer. It started out in a beautiful college town in Virginia... and the original potpourri was mixed in the bath tub of it's creator, Claire Burke. Her original products were charming and appealed to the discriminating buying public of the carriage trade. Her original scent of potpourri and vapourri spray were her trademark offerings. I had one of her darling little potpourris wrapped in a sage green ribbon in my Easter basket from my grandmother many years ago. I cannot tell you what a quaint and lovely little cottage industry Claire Burke once was. Then they were sold to a manufacturer in Minnesota... another horrible corporate blunder. Needless to say the new owner messed around with the image of the product, another crass and tacky mistake by corporate America. I guess their change in image was to make it more appealing to the average consumer. The Claire Burke line was once sold in fine little shops in Paris and in select venues in the US... now it has been tampered with and lost a lot of its elite charm. I must concede that the new "owner" did have the good sense to not tamper with the Original scent. Five stars for its historical style... three stars for the way it is now. Average: four stars Below please see an image of the original product as it once was during its halcyon days.