How do you organize/store your perfume?

[momijizukamori]

Inspired by this post on the BPAL tumblr - I know there's a thread on BPAL.org dedicated to this question, but I'm kind of curious how other people here store and organize their collections, BPAL or otherwise!

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[momijizukamori]

I'll take photos when I have a second, but I found small plastic containers with twelve imp-width bins, six on each side, with individual lids, and my collection has grown to span across three and a half of these. I organize alphabetically (and ignore 'The' if it starts the name). Letters I have a lot of get more than one bin.

For full bottles, I have some other small plastic containers, who's divides fit bottles fairly nicely. Those I don't really organize, because I don't have as many. Nothing goes into the plastic bins until it's been added to my ScentBase, because that is the only way I can remember what I have.

[elfin]

I've got a jewelry box that I was gifted many years ago, and since I don't wear a lot of jewelry, it languished in a closet for a long time. It's got a top space that's supposed to be for rings and things like that, and I keep the imps that I need to sample there. There are two drawers, one for full bottles and imps I want to keep, and one for stuff to swap. It works pretty well, although my collection isn't all that large.

[teaotter]

I'm not sure that "organized" really applies here, even though it kind of sounds like it. At one point, I had everything labeled and alphabetized, but I got behind on that project.

I have a small round box for imps/decants I use frequently.

I have a wooden box with three sections for bottles -- two are for bottles I use, one is for duplicate bottles I'm storing.

I have a separate watch box with 9 other duplicate bottles I'm storing.

I have a wooden box with three drawers where I store imps (two are for imps I'm looking to swap/sell [A-L and M-Z], the other is for duplicate imps I'm keeping)

Then I have a ton of other small ring and brooch boxes for imps I haven't tried, or ones I've tried and am planning to get rid of but haven't sorted and added to my swap/sale list yet, or just imps I find somewhere and have no idea how they got there in the first place.

I keep my bottles for sale in the bottom drawer of my dresser.

Note - both of the wooden boxes were gifts to me from an exchange on the BPAL.org forum. They're gorgeous, and I adore them.

[vicki_rae]

I like your solution. My boxes fit but they're not something I'd leave out on my dresser.

For imps I'm using "MTM 41/44 Cal blue plastic" flip top ammo boxes I got on Amazon. I got 6 of the 50 space boxes to allow sorting various ways and I'm using multiple removable labels on the lids.

For bottles a plastic storage container I got at an office supply place turned out to be perfect. It's the Really Useful Box size .3 liter. Blue with a clear plastic lid that clips on. Clearance over the bottles with the lid on is about 1/8 of an inch. Lengthwise it holds 4 bottles loosely. Widthwise it holds three bottles tightly but I'll do 3x4, 3x4, 3x3 so 11 bottles fit with just enough free space to easily pull one out.

[lunabee34]

Not well. LOL

I've got a beautiful wooden box my daddy made me with my name carved into the top, and I keep all my keeper vials inside it; the vials are inside small clear plastic containers with lids that screw on; each can fit about 8 vials. I have the ones to give away in a little glass dish and the ones I have yet to try in a little metal dish.

[snippy]

I keep imps and BPAL full size bottles in a tin about the size that would hold a set of 3x5 index cards, and I am a little ashamed to admit that I keep my full-size bottles (not BPAL, regular perfumes) in their original boxes and then stacked in a medium shopping bag from Sephora. The tin goes in the bag on top and the bag sits on my dresser. Everything is protected from light, but it's not exactly pretty or organized.

[asciident]

Most of my collection is in imp/decant vials, and I keep them in .357 ammo boxes because they fit perfectly. The few bottles I have are in a little plastic basket.

Edit: Example of one of the ammo cases. Sorry for the low lighting, just took a pic real quick :)

[azurelunatic]

Two ammo boxes for the imps and a plastic box from Ikea for the bottles.