Vintage, era 1920s, Sweet Pea Perfume Bottle Frosted Satin Glass

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Since ancient times perfume and essence bottles kept their fragrant treasures safely inside. Although it is highly unlikely that today’s collectors are going to find an Etruscan Albaster perfume bottle dating from 500 B.C. to add to their collection, there are many exquisite antique and vintage perfume bottles from the 1800 and 1900s available for collecting.

The perfume industry developed in France in the 19th century.

Glassblowers in Britain, Bohemia, Germany, and France made perfume bottles throughout the 19th century. U.S. glass manufacturers such as the New England Glass Company and the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company also made perfume bottles during the 1800s. Some of these were hexagonal and opaque (white, blue, and green were common colors), with knobby, pineapple-shaped stoppers. Others were known gemel bottles, in which two flattened oval bottles were joined in the furnace, their necks pointing in opposite directions.

Regardless of their shape or artistic design then; the bottles held their fragrance. But collectors today, hold out for their shape and design.

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