| There are many fragrant essential oils and aroma | | | | practice and many famous glass manufacturers, |
| compounds that are the raw materials for making | | | | like Murano, originated from there. |
| perfumes. The perfumes help us sooth our body. | | | | These manufacturers produced latticework effect |
| In order not to lose the fragrance through | | | | in the bottles by the decoration on the glasses |
| evaporation, air tight containers or bottles are a | | | | with contrasting colors. However, the Germans |
| must for storing perfumes. | | | | were famous for producing white glass bottles |
| Eau de toilette and Eau de Cologne containing | | | | which contained various designs with |
| bottles are examples of safe perfume storage. | | | | embellishments and enamels. In the later 18th and |
| They prevent the perfume from escaping due | | | | 19th centuries, England also popularised new types |
| their tight lids or stoppers. There is also a need to | | | | of perfume bottles made of varied raw materials |
| prevent sunlight entering the bottles causing | | | | like enamel, silver, porcelain etc. |
| chemical changes to the contents, and this is | | | | Glass vials with lids or stoppers were a standard |
| possible through use of colored, opaque or | | | | part of the enamel perfume bottles to contain the |
| faceted glass bottles. | | | | perfume. These bottles also contained fabulous |
| Even very early civilisations relished and | | | | decorations like flowers, sceneries, landscapes etc. |
| extensively made use of perfumes. The Egyptian | | | | Porcelain is also a preferred raw material for |
| tombs, which are historically very old, were found | | | | making these bottles. |
| to be having in their store perfume bottles giving | | | | Many imaginative shapes and sizes of these |
| credence to their very early use. | | | | bottles are very common. You can see them in |
| The Renaissance period in Venice was famous for | | | | the shape of nuts, golf balls, shells and so on. |
| the manufacture of fancy and decorative | | | | Ladies especially liked the Victorian style of bottles |
| perfume glass bottles. Later in the 16th and 17th | | | | for the perfumes as they had a delicate and |
| centuries, many other nations like England, France, | | | | feminine touch. These are liked by them even |
| and Silesia also started using these attractive | | | | today and some women have an exclusive hobby |
| perfume bottles. Italy, which originated | | | | of collecting such treasured perfume bottles. |
| manufacture of perfume bottles, continued the | | | | |