The first documented uses of lockets were perfume lockets. Genteel women would fill them with perfumes, scents, essential oils, and vinaigrettes to use during their toilette. The vinaigrettes were especially handy to revive ladies when they swooned from the heat and humidity in crowded ballrooms. In the Victorian era in Britain, lockets became even more popular, and trickled into the middle class. These lockets were considered special gifts that people gave to one another. Each locket could be opened, and inside was usually tucked a token from the person gifting the locket. This token could be a miniature painting, a lock of hair, or even a few small charms; all offered as symbols of remembrance. Lockets became an important token of memory, and were given out at all important occasions—birthdays, weddings, betrothals, Valentine’s Days, and intriguingly, funerals.