Posted by Angela
on
28 March 2011
After swapping my vanity and dresser for one low dresser with a mirror, I had more space in my tiny bedroom but lost the perch for my perfume cabinet. I hadn’t been completely satisfied with the perfume cabinet, anyway. It was too deep, making it difficult to see — let alone reach — the bottles in the back. Plus, it was completely made of glass, so I kept a heavy cloth over it to keep out the light. Ugly and impractical. But what better options are out there?
So begins (again) the search for storage for my hundred-plus bottles of perfume. This time I want to do it right and find a cabinet I can use as long as I wear perfume. It’s time to set criteria.
First, I want a cabinet with shallow shelves. When shelves are too deep, it’s easy to forget about bottles stored toward the back. When you do remember them, you have to puzzle through a Rubik’s cube of rearranging to get to them without knocking over other bottles. Also, I want a solid cabinet. No windows and no need to construct goofy curtains to keep out the light.
Finally — and this is the toughest requirement — the cabinet needs to squeeze into a narrow space between a closet and a window…
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Posted by Robin
on
9 October 2008
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.
Posted by Angela
on
5 July 2007
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…
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Posted by Robin
on
21 April 2006
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…
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Posted by Robin
on
17 February 2006
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 Benoit 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)…
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