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9 September 2011



Porcelain Lady

Significance of perfume bottles

Perfumes are meant to make you smell good. They are combination of perfume oils and alcohol. Alcohol gets evaporated and you get different fragrances at different point of time, this is the USP of perfumes. This USP sometimes turn out to be a deficiency as well. Perfumes might get evaporated if they are left open to the environment.

To cope up with this deficiency, perfumes are placed in airtight bottles. Airtight bottles prevent perfumes from evaporation. Discounted Perfume There are mainly two types of bottles used for carrying perfumes. One is Eau de toilette and the other one is eau de cologne perfume. They have stoppage and lids which make them airtight and made up of opaque & colored glass which protects perfumes from direct contact of sunlight.

Many people like the design of the perfume bottles. Lots of people have a habit of collecting perfume bottles. Perfume actually doesn’t matter for these people, what matters is the design of the bottle. Many perfume brands got popularity just because of their unique design of the perfume bottles. It is fact that a designer perfume bottle attracts customers.

With the help of perfume bottles, archaeologists figured out that perfumes had high significance in ancient time. Archaeologists have discovered perfume bottles buried along with dead bodies with people of that time. The pyramid of Egyptian pharaoh had many things along with the dead body of the king including treasures, alcohol, utensils and perfumes. The history of decorative perfume bottles starts from the renaissance period of Venice where bottle manufacturers started making small & decorative glass perfume bottles. Then it got popularity all across the European countries around 16th and 17th century.

Murano, the famous glass manufacturer of Italy got popularity in the production of perfume bottles. The perfume glass consists of many different materials. At that time in Germany, many things were used to decorate the perfume bottle including enamels and other embellishments. The perfume bottles got popularity in England around 18th & 19th century.

In England, during the 18th and the 19th centuries the use of perfume containers gained popularity, as a wide variety of materials such as enamel, silver, and porcelain were being used. The enamel bottles were designed in such a way that they contained glass vials with lids or stoppers to hold the perfume.These perfume bottles were decorated with delicately painted flowers, classical scenes, and landscapes.

Today the bottle industry has grown up and every day new experiments are carried out on designs of perfume bottles. The design bottles can have any shape whether it is spherical shape like a golf ball or an apple shaped bottle. The creativity has no limits and same applies on design of the perfume.

About the Author

Addictive Media is a leading Cheap Perfume.After making a mark with its unmatched designs & development strengths, the company is fast emerging as a prominent Mens perfume as well.

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