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Women didn’t need another object to put on their bathroom shelves

Posted by Robin on 25 January 2020 9 Comments

I never imagined the bottle standing vertically. Never. In my mind, women didn't need another object to put on their bathroom shelves. I pictured a flat, refillable, ultra-portable bottle with the proportions of a smartphone, which the hand is already used to. I wanted to create a bottle so thin that we had to construct various ways to create it.

— Architect and industrial designer Chafik Gasmi on the bottle he created for Lancôme Idôle. Read more in How Perfume Bottle Designs Affect Your Perception of the Scent Inside at Allure.

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  1. yasmina says:
    25 January 2020 at 12:34 pm

    Interesting article but I am not sure about the selections they highlighted- there are so many interesting bottle designs they overlooked in favor of new releases.

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    • Robin says:
      25 January 2020 at 4:31 pm

      That’s probably what most Allure readers would want to read about, I’m guessing?

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  2. Undina says:
    25 January 2020 at 2:01 pm

    If we’re talking about perfume, it wouldn’t (shouldn’t) have been put on a bathroom shelf anyway, right?

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    • Robin says:
      25 January 2020 at 4:31 pm

      Right.

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      • Jessica says:
        25 January 2020 at 4:46 pm

        That was my immediate reaction too.

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  3. Celestia says:
    25 January 2020 at 3:10 pm

    For those of us into the bottle as much as the juice, this is a really good article.

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    • Robin says:
      25 January 2020 at 4:32 pm

      Glad you liked it!

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  4. rickbr says:
    27 January 2020 at 1:41 pm

    They decided to create a perfume that was as thin as the bottle itself lol Lancôme Idôle makes La Vie Est Belle looks like niche in comparison, really awfully generic

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    • Robin says:
      27 January 2020 at 11:13 pm

      Ha, no small feat!

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