In order to be considered antique, an object must be at least 100 years old. So if you have a perfume bottle from 1923 or earlier, you’re in luck. These bottles typically have glass stoppers or ...

Perfume is always a popular Mother’s Day gift. It combines luxury and sentiment — the sense of smell is closely linked to emotion and memory — and lasts much longer than a bouquet of flowers.

Once recycled, the glass is molded into the iconic shapes and sizes that make up perfume bottles. After cooling, the bottles are shaped, polished, and sometimes even painted, ready to be filled ...

Use of perfume dates back to the ancient Egyptians. The Egypt Museum in Cairo, Egypt, displays ancient bottles made out of ...

there is another type of colorful glass that has both history and character on its side: miniature apothecary bottles. Less delicate than perfume bottles, they are similarly sized and come in a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the old days people bought perfume by taking their own empty, generic bottles to be filled with their ...