The role of glass perfume bottles
Great perfumes bring your senses to a different place. Before you know it your mind follows your senses and you feel yourself being taken to a better place. It is only fitting that perfume should come in bottles that evoke the same ideas as the accompanying fragrances. Glass perfume bottles are an important part of setting a mood.
There is more to having a glass perfume bottle than just mood. It is also good to be able to see exactly how much perfume you have left. When we see that perfume getting low, we know it is time to start looking for a good deal on more perfume.
But, the main function of a glass perfume bottle is to set the mood. A bad design or a plain design makes the perfume feel cheap. A good design makes you feel like you're stepping into a bright day or an elegant night each time you apply your perfume. More than this, many perfume bottles are of such an elegant design that people collect them as decorations to set moods in various rooms of their homes.
Many collectors today gladly show, and even buy, sell, and trade, their antique glass perfume bottle collections. Of course, in many cases glass perfume bottles were purchased separately from the perfume. Often a person would purchase the perfume and pour it into their favorite perfume bottle. In some cases the perfume bottle would match a collection of dishes rather than the perfume fragrance.
Some of these perfume bottles would cost as much or more than the perfume. They could be carefully crafted filigree or laid out with a gold finish. They were designed of beauty to make the woman who put them on feel more beautiful. As women have come to value more than just beauty, fragrances and accompanying glass perfume bottles have changed to reflect a wider variety of emotions and moods.
But, in this time of old, feeling beautiful and valued was the height of social achievement. So these glass perfume bottles were designed to look expensive and beautiful. If you look at collectors auctions you'll find a wide variety of these beautiful pieces available. Some may even still contain some of the original perfumes.
Today, glass perfume bottles are a very important part of the marketing of the perfume. Regardless of how fresh and glamorous the fragrance of the perfume, if it doesn't come in an equally glamorous bottle the value is decreased. Glass artists are employed full time to ensure that the bottles never let the perfume product lines down. This means that the glass perfume bottles themselves are beautiful works of art that can inspire us.