Today, many people enjoy collecting vintage perfume bottles to use as decoration. They might favor Art Deco styles or Victoriana or famous maker names from the 1950s, the heyday of perfume wearing ...

1930 Art Deco Czech Josef Schmidt perfume bottle. Embodying the elegance of the Art Deco era, this amber glass bottle with a faceted design and ornate silver plaque sold for $18,000 (R342,000).

Vintage atomizers are usually described by the age and type of the glass perfume bottle, although sometimes the “tail” on the squeeze ball is the most eye-catching element of the arrangement ...

Leather-rose perfume Galop d’Hermès’s stirrup-inspired bottle (£196) is a near-exact replica of one given at the opening of New York’s first Hermès boutique in 1930 and rediscovered in a ...

His annual Perfume Bottles Auction has become the IYKYK event on every collector’s calendar; at last year’s sale an original 1921 Chanel No. 5 flacon sold for a record-­breaking $72,000.

Since 2007 it has been the job of Mathieu Iannarilli, a Paris-based vintage perfume dealer, to track down rare scents for clients who spend from €150 to more than €3,000 per bottle.

When Old Spice revisited its iconic, buoy-shaped bottle for an 80th-anniversary collection, I revisited the vintage bottle that belonged to my father — and learned a lot about both.