perfumepacking

Poly Perfume Bottle

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:55:56 +0000

Her perfume bottle collection shows that bottles can be attractive pieces on their own, infusing them into jewelry pieces brings a modern sense of style with a touch retro elegance with the iconic Chanel Perfume Bottle.

The Iconic Perfume Bottle

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:24:00 +0000

Martin Katz has partnered with DKNY Delicious, the iconic New York inspired fragrance series to create a world first – a million-dollar fragrance bottle.

The bottle, which has been crafted in conjunction with the launch of DKNY Golden Delicious, is carved from polished 14-karat yellow and white gold.

Katz’s awe-inspiring apple-shaped bottle features 2,700 round, brilliant white diamonds, sapphires, turquoise and other precious jewels set on the outline of the Manhattan skyline and the continents of the world.

The DKNY Million Dollar Perfume Bottle will be unveiled across the globe from London, to Mexico to Malaysia.

Once the tour is complete, the Million Dollar bottle will be sold to enthusiasts with net proceeds to be donated to the global charity, Action Against Hunger.

DKNY Golden Delicious Eau de Parfum is available in 100ml, 50ml and 30ml sizes.

Cameo Glass Scent Bottles

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:54:38 +0000

       English cameo glass appeared around 1876. Acid etching allowed large areas of outer glass layers to be removed relatively faster rather than painstakingly removing it by hand. The carving of the design is achieved in two ways.
       First, the outer layer is roughened by acid pitting to provided a key for the acid resist. The pattern is then painted in acid resist layer of wax or some other acid-resistant material such as bituminous paint and repeatedly placed in hydrofluoric acid which removes any area not covered by the resist. Then, the remaining glass is then modelled using small steel points or wheels set into wooden holders to ‘carve’ the glass. This produced very fine details not seen in French cameo glass perfume bottle.
       Nineteenth-century English producers of true cameo glass include Thomas Webb and Sons and George Bacchus & Sons, though ceramic imitations made popular by Wedgwood’s bi-colored “jasper ware”, imitated by others from the late 18th century onwards, are far more common. Like Wedgwood’s designers, they usually worked in a more or less neoclassical style. Some of the finest English cameo glass artisans were Philip Pargeter (1826—1906) and John Northwood (1836—1902)
       Webb Cameo scent bottles were sold in fine jewelers and will sometimes bear markings with London, Paris and New York on the inside of the presentation cases.

Rene Lalique Perfume Bottle

admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:59:58 +0000

The auction is Friday April 30th at 5:00 P.M. in Reston Virginia, during the four day IPBA convention which runs from April 29th to May 2nd. Nick Dawes will be the auctioneer.
The highlights of the Lalique perfume bottles include the perfume bottles Lilas and Mimosa (Toutes Les Fleurs) for Gabilla with original Gabilla boxes, and an amazingly rare Worth Egg Perfume Bottle (see Lalique Perfume Bottles by Utt Page 78 or Catalogue Raisonne 2004 Page 952 Worth – 9), as well the Lalique perfume bottles Serpent, Telline, Pan, Le Jade with original box, Capricornes, Petites Feuilles, Le Parfum de Anges (made to commemorate the opening of the Oviatt Building in Los Angeles), Misti, Sous le Gui, Camille, Narcisse for Forvil, and others.

Modern Egyptian Perfume Bottles

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:58:53 +0000

       This guide introduces you to the gilded, thin blown glass perfume bottles one can commonly find on ebay. I wrote this guide with one idea in mind– to help educate buyers on what these actually are, where they come from, the age of these, and how they are made. Sometimes there is confusion and some sellers will try to pass these off as antique Victorian era scent bottles. Please note that the bottles shown on this guide are NOT antiques!!! Hopefully, you will find my guide to helpful in your shopping.
       These quality bottles are generally made in Egypt as a tourist souvenir and imported gift item. I have also seen some that were made in other areas of the Middle East as well. These mouth blown perfume bottles are easily identified by their very thin,delicate and fragile nature, their handpainted designs, etched motifs and lavishly decorated with 24kt gold paint. Sometimes perfume oils are sold in these unique handmade bottles.
These bottles have been actively made for about 25 years for the tourist trade. Lately these have been produced in Pyrex glass, which makes them very durable and unbreakable. You can find these bottles sold on ebay in the hundreds, as well as on the internet and in gift shops. They would look beautiful displayed on a vanity and filled with your favorite perfumes.
       Although, some of them might have the appearance of looking antique and from the Victorian era, true Victorian perfumeswere very different than these Egyptian examples. There are many fine reference books devoted to perfume bottle collecting available to the collector and dealer alike. You can also find these on ebay as well.
       Glassmaking in Egypt has its roots in Pharaonic times where it was discovered in Asia, and introduced by the 18th Dynasty (1558 BC).. At first glass was more precious than jewels, and was used in making royal jewelry. It was very likely that the glassmaking process was brought into Egypt by Syrian prisoners of war.
       Craftsmen in Egypt learned to create glass vessels by forming a core of mud and sand and pull the molten glass across it like taffy.Once the form was covered, the sides were worked smooth and the container was heated again for toughening in an annealing oven. The core was then scraped out, cleaned, and sent to the “labs” in the temples, where perfumed oils were manufactured.
       The Egyptians also knew how to create the beautiful millefiori glass by pulling various colored strands of molten glass and working them into a cable. This cable was then cut up and each piece put together against the walls of the mold, producing the effect of a thousand flowers. This technique was used again centuries later by the Venetian glassmakers of Murano, and it was likewise used for flacons.
       Although glassmaking seems to have deteriorated after the 20th Dynasty (1200-1085 BC) and the decline of royal Egyptian power, it flared to unexcelled brilliance after the founding of Alexandria in 332 Bc. The Romans,Arabs and eventually the Italians were to benefit from this tradition.
       The revolutionary invention of glass-blowing took place, probably in Syria during the 1st century BC,though the technique did not reach Alexandria until the latter half of the century when it was introduced by the Romans.The new discovery widely increased production and glass then ceased to be either a rarity or upper-class possession.
       Blown glass vessels were created by sticking a piece of molten glass onto one end of a blowpipe and through the other by introducing pressurized air into the pipe, this was done by mouth-blowing. At that stage, the art of transformation into attractive shapes began. It was then cut with a copper wheel and ground with emery powder.After the vessel took its shape, decorations were added by pinching the hot glass, adding handles or other features to it,changing simple straight patterns into more intricate ones. After the coloring and handpainting process was completed, the bottles were then put into a furnace with a very high temperature to set the color on the glass so that it is permanent.Afterwards, the bottles are taken out to cool. Then they are ready for sale.
       Today’s glassmaking has come a long way since the times of the Pharaoh’s with new machines and advancements in technology, but the Egyptian craftsmen proudly create their lovely works of art using the same historic techniques and primitive tools as their ancestors for you to enjoy. To look for Egyptian perfume bottlessearch on ebay for the best prices.

Perfume bottle, a vessel made to hold scent

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:31:50 +0000

       Perfume bottle, a vessel made to hold scent. The earliest example is Egyptian and dates to around 1000 bc. The Egyptians used scents lavishly, especially in religious rites; as a result, when they invented glass, it was largely used for perfume vessels. The fashion for perfume spread to Greece, where containers, most often terra-cotta or glass, were made in a variety of shapes and forms such as sandalled feet, birds, animals, and human heads. The Romans, who thought perfumes were aphrodisiacs, used not only molded glass bottles but also blown glass, after its invention at the end of the 1st century bc by Syrian glassmakers. The fashion for perfume declined somewhat with the beginning of Christianity, coinciding with the deterioration of glassmaking.
       By the 12th century Philippe-Auguste of France had passed a statute forming the first guild of parfumeurs, and by the 13th century Venetian glassmaking had become well established. In the 16th, 17th, and particularly the 18th centuries, the scent bottle assumed varied and elaborate forms: they were made in gold, silver, copper, glass, porcelain, enamel, or any combination of these materials; 18th-century porcelain perfume bottles were shaped like cats, birds, clowns, and the like; and the varied subject matter of painted enamel bottles included pastoral scenes, chinoiseries, fruits, and flowers.
       By the 19th century classical designs, such as those created by the English pottery ware maker Josiah Wedgwood, came into fashion; but the crafts connected with perfume bottles had deteriorated. In the 1920s, however, René Lalique, a leading French jeweller, revived interest in the bottles with his production of molded glass examples, characterized by iced surfaces and elaborate relief patterns.

Lucien Lelong Edition Limitee Perfume Bottle

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:42:41 +0000

       In 1951, the Perfume Bottle company released a special presentation in a new bottle. It was called “Edition Limitee” and only 200 bottles were produced. I don’t know what sort of juice was used in this bottle.
       The ad mentions that only a few women in the world had owned the perfume and that it was custom created for them. I think the ad reads that the perfume was being offered at $110. A princely sum at the time!
       The flacon is very beautiful from what I can make out in the picture. It appears to be a cylindrical bottle with a whirlwind or tornado shape with gathered dust at the base and at the top? Is this a US issue of Passionement? I can’t figure it out?
       Its housed in a clear box and rests on a plinth. Do you have this bottle? If so, let’s get that pic on here!

Flowery perfume

admin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:07:03 +0000

Nice and flowery. Fresh and feminine. Friendly. Liked it. Mum said she didn’t like it, but I had just made her smell Cacharel’s ‘Eden’, which was on the same hand, and she was still scowling… I only put ‘Beautiful’ this far down the list because it’s pricier than the perfumes just above (Monsoon, Delirium etc), and if I was on the hunt for another perfume to buy, those would come first. Probably. I received the White Satin body spray as a gift from Mum. I’ve had it in my collection since before I started all this ‘perfume testing’ malarkey, but it seems only fair to include it in my reviews. It’s a pleasant flowery perfume bottle, innocent and old-fashioned in nature. It makes you think of a dressing table covered with cylinders of lipstick, canisters of hairspray and a heavy cut glass ‘puff powder’ thing. And yourself, wondering if Granny will catch you roaming her bedroom (which is off limits to little children). I don’t put any of this in a dismissive way; it’s a pleasant body spray; the aroma is slightly powdery but with a sweet floral note coming through. Sharp and lemony… it was quite refreshing. Mum liked it but I wouldn’t bother with it, unless it grew on me later. Could well do… in which case I’ll plump out this review! Another vanilla-y perfume… it was OK, but I’m not all that into the vanilla scents. Mum didn’t like it, and though I thought it was all right, I wouldn’t buy it for myself. Whoo, expensive. £57 for the bottle I was looking at. I wouldn’t even dream of paying that, but it’s one of those key perfumes everyone’s heard of… my grandmother wore it. When I tried it, it reminded me of Ma Griffe. Mum said it was OK but she didn’t recognize it as Miss Dior. She says there’s something missing and it’s not the same. I read reviews on it earlier; it has been reformulated, possibly to remove or replace ingredients that couldn’t be used any more, but I don’t know the story. I didn’t dislike it, would be prepared to take it at face value, and was grateful that it didn’t give me a headache the way some perfumes do. It was the best of the three Christian Dior perfumes I’ve tried so far, but alien to me. For the rest of the night I kept thinking there was someone else in the room wearing this perfume, and that it had nothing to do with me.

Poly Incense Burner

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:24:27 +0000

When I look at Poly Incense Burner I tend to think of just your standard $2 long piece of wood with a hole in one side. When it comes to cone incense I’ve always been partial to the small, round soapstone holders because it keeps things neat and tidy. But this very unique new incense burner called the Apparition Incense Burner adds a little something else to the burner that makes the whole process of burning your incense a little more interesting.

Incense is used for social or cultural purposes. A big fad in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, incense was tied to Eastern mysticism and burning it became the ‘in’ thing to do. As well, incense masked odors or was thought to enhance recreational drug use. During the hippie heyday, most incense probably came from India. (Writing about this just made me think of Timothy Leary, who I saw in a much more watered down version in the mid-1980s.) Sold on a large-scale, like at Pier 1, or in shops that specialize in such goods, incense can be found with accoutrements for myriad spiritual practices.

As the Buddhists say, moderation in all things… Temperate use and good ventilation are important when burning incense. If you plan on making anPoly incense burner out of clay, make sure your vessel can easily disperse the smoke, which carries the scent. Holders either have openings or are flat and the shape determines the form you use, sticks or cones. You can pretty much turn any piece of greenware, vessel or sculpture, into a simple incense burner by just tunneling a little hole in it, wide and deep enough to hold the wooden wand on a stick of incense. Burning does create ash, so want to make sure it’s safe and will catch the residue. There are some nice incense burners offered on Etsy and I especially like this flat one called “Don’t Be So Blue,” by Heritage Valley Pottery. There are any number of ways to use incense…to aid meditation, to spruce up a mid-winter home. Gone are the days when patchouli reigned supreme, but I still enjoy sandalwood.

The Perfume Bottles

admin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:29:28 +0000

I own and run a small Shop and Print Studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn where I sell my hand printed Stationery and Textiles alongside hand made goods by dear friends and Artisans from around the globe. I usually take natural elements and the creatures that I meet on my travels for inspiration, but today’s project was inspired by a colorful collection of Vintage Perfume bottles. I hope you enjoy this mix and match Valentine card project as much as I enjoyed designing it for you!

These Valentines are inspired by Vintage Perfume Bottles. There are three different bottles, greetings and patterned designs to cut and collage with for a fun, mix and match project. Happy Valentines Day!

Print your favorite pattern above as the backdrop for your air bubble (next slide).

Step 1: Choose some good quality 8.5 x 11 (A4) cover stock. I used Pure White Cover Stock from Paper Source (sold in 10 packs) because it’s not too thick to feed through the printer but still stands up nicely once made into a folded card. You could also choose a lightly colored or patterned similar weight cover stock in the same size and experiment with printing the perfume bottles on different backgrounds – though it may change the color of the bottles.

Step 2: Download and print the 5 page PDF.

Step 3: Use either a paper cutter or a ruler and a craft knife to cut the cards to the correct dimensions using the printed crop marks as a guide. Your card will ideally measure 8.5″ wide and 5.5″ tall once cut.

Step 4: Take a bone folder to score a central line up the middle of each card and then fold them in half. Now it will measure 4.25″ x 5.5″

Step 5: Select a ‘spray bubble’ silhouette and cut inside the black outline. Then trace around this template onto one of the patterns. I drew on the reverse so that my pencil marks did not show on the front. Experiment with mixing and matching the patterns, air bubbles and bottles. You could also try using a compass or a circle punch instead of the templates. Once you’ve chosen which way to go, stick the bubbles down on to the card with PVA or another clear drying adhesive, using a glue brush for even coverage.