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PERFUMEBOTTLES CHANEL NO. 5 (1921) BACK WHEN PERFUME BOTTLES WERE USUALLY FANCY AND DECORATIVE, COCO CHANEL TOOK AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH TO DESIGNING HERS. SHE INTRODUCED A CLEAN, SQUARE- SHAPED BOTTLE, INSPIRED BY WHISKEY FLASKS AND THE NEAT LINES OF PLACE VENDÔME IN PARIS. ITS MINIMALISTIC LABEL, BOX, AND OCTAGONAL CAP REFLECTED HER BELIEF THAT ELEGANCE RESIDES IN THE ACT OF SIMPLICITY. AND JUST LIKE THAT, EVEN A CENTURY LATER, THE LEGACY OF THIS PERFUME AND THE BOTTLE REMAINS UNTOUCHED. L’AIR DU TEMPS BY NINA RICCI (1948) THIS PERFUME BOTTLE IS AN ODE TO PEACE, LOVE, AND FREEDOM. ITS ORIGINAL DESIGN FEATURED A DOVE BY ARTIST JOAN REBULL. HOWEVER, IN 1951, MARC LALIQUE REVAMPED THE BOTTLE BY ADDING TWO CRYSTAL DOVES ATOP A SWIRLING GLASS BASE. THE DESIGN BECAME SO ICONIC THAT IT WAS NAMED THE 'PERFUME BOTTLE OF THE CENTURY' IN 2000. ANGEL BY THIERRY MUGLER (1992) SHAPED LIKE A STAR, THIS BOTTLE SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE TO CREATE UNTIL VERRERIES BROSSE ENGINEERED A ROTATING MOLD THAT ALLOWED ITS FIVE POINTS TO BE FILLED EVENLY. ITS MAGNETIC BLUE STOOD OUT IN A SEA OF PASTELS, CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS OF FEMININITY AT THE TIME. MUGLER ALSO INTRODUCED THE "MUGLER FOUNTAIN," A REFILL SYSTEM THAT EMBRACED ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS BEFORE IT BECAME A TREND. OPIUM BY YVES SAINT LAURENT (1977) OPIUM, A MASTERPIECE BY SAINT LAURENT, WAS THE EPITOME OF SEDUCTION AND MYSTERY, ORIGINATED IN THE YEAR 1977. ITS INTENSE SCENT, WITH PATCHOULI, MYRRH, AND VANILLA, IS PRESENTED IN A BOTTLE INSPIRED BY THE INRÔ, A SMALL, PRECIOUS CASE WORN BY JAPANESE SAMURAI. THE BOTTLE HAS AN INTENSE, LACQUERED RED COLOUR WITH A ROUNDED CENTRAL GLASS EYE, MAKING WAY FOR THE AMBER LIQUID TO BE SEEN. SHALIMAR BY GUERLAIN (1925) PERFUMES ARE OFTEN MADE WITH LOVE, BUT SHALIMAR WAS MADE FOR LOVE. IT WAS INSPIRED BY THE STORY OF MUGHAL EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN AND HIS WIFE MUMTAZ MAHAL, THE LOVE THAT LIVED ON FOR AGES THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TAJ MAHAL, IN HONOUR OF HIS DEPARTED SPOUSE. CREATED BY JACQUES GUERLAIN, THE BOTTLE WAS DESIGNED BY RAYMOND GUERLAIN WITH BACCARAT. IT WAS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND TO FEATURE ARABESQUE DETAILING AND A COLORED CAP, MAKING IT STAND OUT BACK IN 1925. THATARESTILLTALKEDABOUTTODAY STUNNING P A R F U M P L U S 34