| With our understanding of the nature of perfume, | | | | it came to small fragrance containers, that he |
| from the self esteem it offers its wearer to the | | | | made in a series of ever-larger factories beyond |
| indescribable effect it sometimes have on its very | | | | Paris for François Coty along with other |
| targeted viewers, it's not unusual which perfume | | | | perfume makers. Lalique brought his jeweler's eye |
| is actually stored in containers whose styles | | | | to scent bottles-he even applied a jewelry-casting |
| evidently replicate the mystical qualities from the | | | | process called cire perdue, known as lost wax. |
| fluids within them. Even if it is a slim phial, a tiny | | | | Unlike a number of his contemporaries, Lalique |
| tear-shaped lachrymatory, or perhaps a circular, | | | | didn't add lead to his crystal. Rather, he favored a |
| flat-sided ampullae, fragrance bottles are made to | | | | demi-crystal since it was inexpensive, easy to |
| contain magic, that is exclusively unleashed | | | | work with, and also imbued his perfume |
| whenever the bottle is opened and a drop or two | | | | containers with what became his trademark milky |
| of the valuable liquid is cautiously applied. | | | | opalescence. |
| Glassblowers in The United Kingdom, Bohemia, | | | | Throughout Lalique's collaboration with Coty, that |
| Germany, as well as France made fragrance | | | | lasted over the 1930s, he also created perfume |
| containers throughout the 19th century. U.S. glass | | | | containers for d'Orsay and Roger et Gallet. One |
| manufacturers like the New England Glass | | | | bottle for Roger et Gallet was crowned by an |
| Company as well as the Boston & Sandwich Glass | | | | intricate tiara stopper, certainly one of Lalique's |
| Company also created perfume bottles over the | | | | many copied patterns. One more was an opaque |
| 1800s. A few of these are hexagonal as well as | | | | green round container which has a bird on just |
| opaque (white, blue, and green were common | | | | one side and the phrase "LE JADE" at the bottom. |
| colors), with knobby, pineapple-shaped stoppers. | | | | Later on, as Lalique's name became like |
| Others were known gemel containers, in which 2 | | | | synonymous with perfume containers as Coty's, |
| flattened oval bottles were joined in the furnace, | | | | he would make empty vessels so which clients |
| their necks directed in opposite ways. Gemel | | | | may transfer their perfumes into Lalique's more |
| containers, specifically standing ones in bright | | | | elegant containers. Tantot and Amphitrite are just |
| colors, are primarily prized... | | | | two types of unfilled Lalique perfume containers. |
| For enthusiasts, a fantastic spot for vintage scent | | | | Through the 1920s and '30s, glass perfume |
| containers is undoubtedly Art Nouveau. Beginning | | | | containers inspired by the Art Deco movement |
| around 1890, artisans and glass producers equally | | | | were all the rage. Natural forms and motifs gave |
| made intricate design or blown glass perfume | | | | way to geometric styles and striking, sleek |
| containers along with elaborate caps, most of | | | | designs. In Czechoslovakia, perfume containers |
| which got hinged silver corks and collars. | | | | from this period are consistently created of blown |
| Purse-sized conical bottles with really small necks | | | | and attentively cut crystal. For many of these |
| and round stoppers were usually embellished with | | | | bottles, the diameters of the stoppers were an |
| gilt flower-and-leaf motifs; makers included | | | | excellent as those of the bottles below them, |
| Thomas Webb & Sons and Stevens & Williams | | | | allowing these usually simple containers the feel of |
| Glass Company, both from Staffordshire, England. | | | | a Vegas showgirl wearing an impossibly top-heavy |
| The very same companies also created perfume | | | | headdress. |
| containers in cameo glass. Yet again, leaves and | | | | Still between the wars, Paris had been the place |
| blossoms appeared to be favorite motifs, in colors | | | | for perfume and perfume bottles. Signature |
| which ranged from pink to purple to green, most | | | | shapes for Chanel No. 5 and Shalimar by Guerlain |
| of that were encased in white. In the USA, | | | | were codified, and gorgeous collaborations |
| Steuben designed bulb-shaped perfume bottles | | | | developed between Baccarat, the renowned |
| while using company's Verre de Soie procedure, | | | | creator of fine crystal, and everyone from |
| with glass threads covering the piece and | | | | Guerlain to fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. For |
| matching the color of its iridescent base. Tiffany's | | | | Guerlain, Baccarat created the Japanese-influenced |
| containers included small, stumpy crystal cylinders | | | | Liu bottle, with its square-sided black body |
| with hob-nail bottoms and ornately engraved silver | | | | embellished gold labels. For Schiaparelli, Baccarat |
| caps that covered the bottle's crystal stopper. | | | | developed a bottle in the form of a candle in a |
| In France, René Lalique has been a giant when | | | | candlestick, with a gilt-metal flame for a stopper. |