I’d rather a very simple bottle than something ornate that doesn’t appeal to my personal aesthetics, but perfumery definitely has some very cool bottles at times. Overall, it’s not that important because I’m focused on the product and the packaging is a bonus.
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I like pretty bottles. However, the spray nozzle is so important and overlooked! Masque Milano has the best spray nozzle. For that reason, if I am on the fence between them and another company I will choose Masque Milano. Some other companies have reasonably good spray nozzles, too. But some companies make the worst nozzles! They leak or they don’t give a well balanced spray that I can control. So much time and effort wasted on the appearance of the bottle just to ignore the way the customer actually applies the product!
I love having pretty bottles on my dresser, but what’s inside is more important, so, like Christine said, a pretty bottle is really just a bonus.
i LOVE a beautiful bottle but am def not gonna buy a perfume if i don’t like what’s inside it. and some of my favorite scents come in very plain bottles/packaging.
I’m also more concerned with what’s inside than with what the bottle looks like (otherwise, I wouldn’t own Daisy Oh So Fresh – hideous bottle), but like most people, I do like an attractive container. I love Jo Malone’s bottles but not enough to pay those silly prices for a scent that lasts 30 minutes, if I’m lucky!
A bottle is very important to me, more from a practical point of view than aesthetics.
Will the bottle make me not buy a favorite fragrance? No, but it will make me choose a travel size or a different format so I don’t have it in a bottle I don’t like.
I prefer sleek bottles, preferably dark colors (just because pastels, neons or pink are not my style), nothing that is hard to store, bulky, sharp, easy to roll of the counter, etc.
Honestly? I care so much more about what’s inside the bottle than it’s outer shell container! That said, there may be a few bottles that I might find offensive or childish, but even then it comes down to: “what does it smell like on me?”.
Some of my relatives collected vintage Avon perfume bottles (from the 50s and 60s) and proudly displayed them in their bathrooms.
I do like a unique bottle. However, it does have to hold up design-wise and be practical to use. I am a bit petty when the bottle is almost empty and the spray stops working. Some I can open to finish the product; others, not.
Years ago, I liked the Montana bottle. I saved it for a while because I liked the design. These days, I don’t tend to save them unless there is something in the design that makes it worthwhile. I also would need to find some sort of curio cabinet.
Pretty bottles get to sit on the dresser, otherwise you hide in a drawer. 😛
As long as the sprayer works, I’m good. A pretty bottle is a nice bonus, but not a requirement.
Yes, exactly what I was thinking.
The shape of the bottle, to me, is irrelevant – it’s the perfume inside that counts. What is also important is that it has a spray nozzle that works and is easy to use.
I recently bought some Chloe miniatures and lo and behold, the mini perfume bottles had stoppers in them, not a spray nozzle – which makes it almost impossible to use. A waste. I wouldn’t have bought these if I had known.
Very. Simple, easy to hold and a good spray. Think Chanel style bottles.
My bottles are stowed away in the dark. That’s also the reason I don’t care (at all!) about how the bottles look. I mean, it’s nice to use a beautiful bottle yes, but honestly, the beautiful designs are wasted on me 😉
I only wear Dior Addict perfume so the bottle is a win-win for me because it’s beautiful heavy, heavy dark glass that protects the juice from any light. When I wore many Guerlain perfumes I always they were lovely but would have preferred dark glass for protection. I never look at perfume anymore but what I’ve seen on line many expensive perfume bottles look cheesy to me.