Made on Request, a New Mexico-based company, has introduced a perfume sample holder in clear and black acrylic with brass and stainless steel hardware:
Developed because my friends got into perfume and they had no way of organizing their testers. One solution was a block of wood with holes drilled into it which was just plain uncool so we went off of that and developed these.
It holds 12 standard-sized vials and retails for $28.
By now most of us know not to keep our bottles of perfume next to the sink in the bathroom where light and heat will degrade the scent. Plus, if you’re like me, you’d need a sink as big as Paul Bunyan’s to have enough room for all your bottles. So, if the bathroom’s out, where do you keep your perfume?
For a long time, I’ve kept my perfume in a cupboard built into my dresser. The cupboard is about a foot high and a foot-and-a-half deep. It handily holds fifty or so bottles. (After typing that number, I’ll pause here and take a deep breath.) The cupboard takes up half of the top of the dresser, and on the other half is a cupboard with drawers that I use to store samples.
This system has worked pretty well so far. The mahogany cupboards keep out the light and insulate the bottles…
Way back in February I complained about my storage system for perfume samples. Not being one to act hastily (i.e., I am the world’s worst procrastinator) it took me some time to find a suitable substitute for the little plastic drawer units I was using (see picture in link above).
I never really found the perfect solution. I wanted something that didn’t take up too much space, that had deep, divided drawers for samples and decants, and preferably something on wheels. The elaborate tool storage systems at Sears (tool people are obviously even more insane than perfume people) were tempting, but too expensive. On a random trip to Office Depot to pick up a new mouse, I found this cart on mark down…
I have spent much of this morning searching in vain for my decant of Tan Giudicelli Annam, and have come to the conclusion that I need a new storage system for my perfume.
Annam, for anyone who has never tried it, was a wonderful fragrance from designer Tan Giudicelli, who launched his own fashion label in 1984. It was created by perfumer Benoît Lapouza, and smelled like a creamy-milky rice pudding, lightly spiced, with floral & woody undertones. It was a gourmand scent, but not overly sweet, and it had a kind of Asian feel in keeping with Giudicelli’s background (he was born in Indochina). It was very reasonably priced at ccb-paris, but was discontinued some time ago…