Subject: A pictorial guide for the perfume bottle collector and connoisseur, this book documents and identifies one hundred years of tantalizing commercial perfume bottle design. Each of the more than 1000 bottles shown was at one time mass-produced, filled, sealed, labeled, boxed, and sold by a retailer. When empty, most were discarded! Only within the past few years has commercial perfume packaging achieved international recognition as an appreciative art form. The result of a century of fragrance merchandising, these fascinating bottles and the boxes that held them, now serve to chronicle the historical trends and fashion whims dictated by past decades. Experiencing the luxurious “golden age” of perfume presentation from the sensuous art nouveau, through the Oriental and Egyptian crazes of the 1920’s, to the sleek geometrics of modernism, we come to understand how the qualities of bottle design and ornamentation gave a perfume its tangible image. We find that once again these bottles have the power to ignite the passions of the past, attracting the eye, inviting the hand, and stimulating the imagination.