time for summer!

[splix]

I swapped out my cold-weather perfumes for my warm-weather fragrances and snapped a picture, because I like how they look on my dresser. I didn't include the glass bowl of tiny bottles and sample sizes and so on - these are just the full size bottles.






Ordinarily I don't really have a preference for one type of bottle look over another, though I do love a pretty perfume bottle. I'm just glad that designers generally try to make them look nice. I do love Caswell Massey's Elixir of Love, a deep cobalt bottle with a gold cap. It sort of has a 50s vibe to me.

Do you have any favorite bottle designs?


I also scored a .25 ounce bottle of Nest Dahlias and Vines at Goodwill yesterday for $1.99, so that was cool. :) It's pretty, a clean gentle floral, nothing extraordinary, but for under two bucks I'm not complaining.

Comments

[bookherd]

So pretty! I really like the one in the back left of your photo, with the leafy half-circular cap.

I'm into perfume oils rather than perfumes, so my bottles are small and mundane-looking (but also don't take up a lot of space, which suits me well).

[splix]

Ah! That's Lalique by Lalique, EDP. Mandarin, orange blossom, wood, musk, and vanilla.

I have a lot of oils too. The only problem with those is that I have to keep picking them up to figure out which ones they are. I need a better cap-top coding method. :)

[lunabee34]

*swoons*

I wish I had that many full bottles of perfume.

I think Guerlain has the most beautiful bottles, but I don't like their perfume. LOL

I like Tom Ford's bottles and Chanel bottles.

Awesome perfume score!

[splix]

Oh! The only Guerlain I've ever liked is Jardins de Bagatelles. Everything else I've tried has been...weird on me. Like, smells like ground-up baby aspirins and old nickels weird. Disappointing. But yes, lovely bottles!

Oh, I like the Tom Ford Orchid Soleil bottle especially. The color.

I like Serge Lutens bottles as well. Santa Maria Novella bottles are pretty too, but I've never actually tried anything by them.

Thanks! I was pleased. :D

[lunabee34]

Ooooh, I hadn't seen that Tom Ford bottle.

My Tom Ford bottle looks like this.

[splix]

Pretty! Looks like it would fit nicely in the hand. I don't like awkward-in-the-hand bottles much.

[rydra_wong]

Interesting question. I'm not much interested in bottles per se, but now you mention it, I have much nostalgic fondness for the old Shiseido Feminite Du Bois bottles (before it came back as a Lutens scent in the default Lutens bottles):

https://olfactoria.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/shiseido-fenminite-du-bois.jpg

It's so slinky and sinuous and organic, and perfectly suited to the scent.

[splix]

I think I remember those from 80s fashion magazine ads! Very cool.

[dejla]

Oh, I remember those! Yes, they were absolutely gorgeous.

[dejla]

Certainly very pretty! I love perfume in unusual bottles.

[splix]

I'd love to find a really fragile dainty old bottle with filigree and whatnot, with the perfume intact, but I know that's a pipe dream. :)

[dejla]

Tour antique shops and Goodwill/Salvation Army, but most especially, tour estate sales.

[splix]

Now that I think about it, I'm heading to the Chicago area in June. There's an amazing antique place in Gurnee that has some really nifty old perfumes there. Thanks for the memory jog. :)

[dejla]

I'm Ms. Fixit. You hand me a problem and I'll try to fix it. It's a bad habit and I really need to restrain myself.

[splix]

I wouldn't have remembered that particular place if you hadn't said that, so I thank you!