Those Large Bottles and Christmas

You know that in my last post I talked about not getting anymore perfume for the year? Well, that resolution didn't last 24 hours. A new Sol de Janeiro or newish one was on the ULTA website and with the five points per dollar, a twenty percent off and free same day delivery, I was hooked and impulsively got in. I was looking at picking up some lotion and kind of figured, why not? It's not like Sol de Janeiro breaks the bank in terms of perfume. Some people might think that but I don't. I am the one sitting with bottles of Chanel and Amouage offerings and those are pretty expensive. But usually this time of year, I know Ulta and Sephora offer free same day delivery this time of year. That shit is fine for one or two things but I have enough being delivered in the next couple days to truly wrap it up for Christmas. But that isn't fully the reason on why I am posting.

When I got to really thinking about bottle sizes, for a good long while, you were hard pressed to find anything larger than 100ml of any perfume now. I know way back when Guerlain did some very bizarre sizes. But that was way back when. You still are hard pressed to find anything larger than 100ml and anything larger you really have to look for and only online. I do have a fascination with massive bottles of perfume. There is just something about them. To have a bottle of anything larger than 100ml is quite a rarity. I do have bottles of perfume that are over 100ml. The largest one is a vintage bottle of Bal a Versailles that is 9 ounces. Most of my large bottles are vintage Guerlain bottles that are probably 8 ounces. How am I going to refuse a reasonably priced bottle of vintage Mitsouko? But my big bottles of Chanel are mainly from the Exclusifs line up and that was way back when the Exclusifs line only came in the 200ml size. Yes, Chanel has massive bottles called the Grand Extrait or something like that but there is no way in hell that I am able to sink a minimum of seven grand for a few ounces of no 5 extrait. I just can't find any smaller bottles of the extrait bottles anywhere and have been looking for months for one.

But since we are a couple days away from Christmas, I am way behind on wrapping my gifts and a little behind on which perfume I want to wear. The only choices that I have thought up are Lyric, Theorema, and Feminite du Bois. I am not fully sure on which one I want to pick out but will probably be able to make a decision soon enough. I just have to get through the next few days. But the bigger issue at this point is wrapping my gifts. I have a couple packages that are arriving today and would rather have all the gifts that I ordered in the house before I commit to wrapping.

 

Bottle Size

I did do a few of the responsible things that I said that I was going to do as much as I wanted to spend all of that refund money on fun stuff. I will admit that I did go a little overboard with some of the fun stuff. Most of the time, this is the time of year that I do kind of go overboard with some fun stuff. But party time is over and it's back to watching what I spend. I've got a trip to California to save up for.

But since I have done something in regards to the whole Guerlain teardrop bottle, I've gotten to really thinking about bottle sizes. Even though I am going with smaller sized bottles, there is something oh so satisfying about having a large bottle of perfume. I am not talking about the 100ml sized bottles and those can be nice. I am talking about those bottles that are over 100ml. Just gazing at a large bottle of perfume amuses me for some reason. Why else would I buy a large bottle of anything unless it was a major love? Vintage Bal a Versailles is one of those along with Mitsouko come to mind with major love.

It's fairly rare for any perfume company to sell any perfume that is over 100ml. I don't see it that often, even online. Sometimes I wonder with those large bottles of perfume on who those bottles are really meant for. Are they meant for people who can spend cash for a large bottle or those who only wear 1 perfume. Those large bottles are probably not really meant for us perfume nerds. I've spent boatloads of cash on perfume and honestly don't need anymore let alone a huge bottle of anything. But I have managed to check off a few things that I have been wanting for quite a while. I still have some perfumes that are still on my to buy list but those are going to have to wait.
 

The Large Bottles

Here is another post on bottle sizes, I think that it is a second post of bottle sizes, I can't be sure. But there are a few massive ones in my collection. I'm not talking about the 3.4 ounces of anything. Yes, 3.4 ounces can be a lot of perfume but I'm talking the bottles that are more than that. I'm talking those monster bottles.

It is rare to see huge bottles today. Huge as in more than 3.4 ounces in modern perfumery. Dior and Chanel have large bottles of some of their offerings but that is rare. I more often see incredibly large bottles of perfume regularly on E-Bay. The ones I see on E-Bay most often are vintage perfumes and the most common seem to be are vintage Guerlains. I do think that back in the '50's and '60's maybe even before, perfume was considered a huge luxury and you wanted the biggest bottle that one could afford. Now those bottles, even empty, are a pretty penny, if you go looking on E-Bay. Unless you have a really good thrift store, Goodwill or an antique store, you are limited to E-Bay, like I am.