| Perfume atomizers have always been an odd mix | | | | Perhaps the best known perfume atomizer from |
| of elegance and chemistry lab utilitarianism. The | | | | De Vilbiss was of Steuben Aurene glass, with its |
| graceful scent bottles of old were produced in a | | | | blue or gold iridescent finish. But their cranberry |
| variety of shapes and sizes and a variety of | | | | glass perfume atomizer [ with the rotten acid |
| materials including m crystal, cut glass, porcelain | | | | finish and gold overlays is also highly collectible, and |
| and enamel, with delicate filigree, or gold, silver, | | | | there are many other De Vilbiss atomizers waiting |
| and jewel accents, paired with Bunsen burner-like | | | | for new homes in the antique shops and auction |
| tops connected to small rubber turkey baster-like | | | | houses of America. |
| rubber bulbs. When the bulbs were squeezed, | | | | The Perfume Atomizer Today |
| they sent a fine mist of perfume through the | | | | While the perfume atomizer of today has |
| nozzle of the Bunsen burner-like top. | | | | sacrificed elegance for convenience, it remains an |
| The De Vilbiss Perfume Atomizer | | | | essential part of a woman's travel kit. Resembling |
| It all sounds rather cumbersome, but the perfume | | | | an extra large tube of lipstick when closed, the |
| atomizer has been around in the US for nearly a | | | | modern perfume atomizer, with its top removed |
| century, ever since the doughboys of WWII | | | | has a spray nozzle cap like those on spray |
| brought exquisitely designed perfume spray | | | | mousse cans. The cap can be unscrewed so that |
| bottles back to the US from France. The De | | | | perfume can be poured into the base through a |
| Vilbiss Company of Toledo Ohio adapted their | | | | small funnel included with the perfume atomizer. |
| medical atomizers to the perfume dispensers, and | | | | Most of these atomizers hold between one and |
| by the middle of the Roaring Twenties the | | | | two ounces of perfume, which should be enough |
| flappers of America were buying the perfume | | | | to last for two to four weeks of travel. |
| atomizer to the tune of a million a year. | | | | The perfume atomizer is ideal for storing |
| The earliest De Vilbiss perfume atomizer held its | | | | perfume, because it does not have to be opened |
| perfume in a glass salt shaker, as they were the | | | | once it is filled, and keeps evaporation to a |
| only suitable sized containers available in large | | | | minimum. It also allows the user to spray a fine |
| enough numbers to meet the demand. But as | | | | mist of perfume into the air and simply step |
| business picked up, De Vilbiss would create a | | | | through it, achieving an even distribution of |
| design for each perfume atomizer and send it one | | | | perfume over her body instead of having it |
| of the major glass factories to be turned into | | | | concentrated at the pulse points. And it's a great |
| miniature glass works of art and delivered back to | | | | way to turn a signature body scent into a |
| De Vilbiss for sale. | | | | signature air freshener! |