| There are an estimated twenty thousand | | | | Until the 1930s, when the company changed its |
| different perfumes being marketed at any one | | | | name to Pochet and dropped its porcelain business |
| time, and that means there must be an | | | | to specialize in the perfume bottle market, it had |
| estimated twenty thousand different perfume | | | | handcrafted its perfume bottles from blow |
| bottle designs aimed at attracting the consumer's | | | | molded glass, and even today some of its limited |
| eye better than those of their competitors. | | | | editions of perfume bottles have hand made |
| Perfume bottle making is big business, and the | | | | elements. But its 21st century state-or-the-art |
| leader in the perfume bottle making industry | | | | factory has enabled it to keep satisfying a |
| dating back to the nineteenth century has been | | | | perfume bottle market which requires more and |
| Pochet SA of France. | | | | more exotically designed bottles. |
| The History Of The Pochet Perfume Bottle | | | | Pochet and Lalique |
| Today Pochet is the perfume bottle provider for | | | | The 1930s brought with them the Great |
| such perfume makers as Givenchy, Yves Saint | | | | Depression and a serious decline in US perfume |
| Laurent, Calvin Klein, Coty, Dior, and Kenzo. The | | | | sales. For the French perfumers who survived, |
| company is actually the descendant of two ouch | | | | the machine made perfume bottle was an |
| older companies, Verreries du Courval which had | | | | economic necessity, and perfume bottle makers |
| originally been the maker of glass windows for | | | | began to look to Hollywood for inspiration. Lalique, |
| the French aristocracy, and Pochet DeRoche, | | | | which Pochet would buy some six decades later, |
| which in the 1830s was one of the leading | | | | came out with a perfume bottle for the 1932 |
| producers of painted porcelain and glass luxury | | | | Worth's classic scent Je Reviens was of dark blue |
| items in Paris. Pochet DeRoche became the Paris | | | | ribbed glass shaped toe resemble a New York |
| distributor of du Courval windows, and when du | | | | City skyscraper, and was packaged in a |
| Courval entered the perfume bottle market at | | | | chrome-finished box. |
| around that time, a partnership was inevitable. | | | | Lalique is still one of the most respected designers |
| The very first "designer" perfume was a Guerlain | | | | of premier quality perfume bottles, and attempts |
| scent commissioned by the Empress Eugenie in | | | | to imbue each perfume bottle with the feel of the |
| 1858, and Geurlain commissioned du Courval to | | | | fragrance it contains, because the perfume bottle |
| create the first designer perfume bottle for it. | | | | is the consumer's introduction to the scent inside, |
| The limited edition "Eau de Cologne Imperiale" sent | | | | and will often be what draws a customer to |
| du Courval to the top of the list of perfume | | | | purchase it. |
| bottle makers. | | | | |