The design of antique perfume bottles was often more creative than what you might see today — there are bottles shaped like hearts, grapes, people, and even lizards.

Vintage atomizers are usually described by the age and type of the glass perfume bottle, although sometimes the “tail” on the squeeze ball is the most eye-catching element of the arrangement.

Careful cameo cut boosts this antique perfume bottle’s value This elegant bottle boasts a glass-decorating technique fashionable in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Another recent phenomenon: a high demand for bottles that still contain the OG scent. “It used to be that the perfume itself was incidental,” Leach says.

Michelle Pfeiffer began collecting antique perfume bottles three years ago, while developing Henry Rose, the fragrance line she launched last spring. “As I learned more about the history of ...

Our other '80s perfume picks As mentioned, this fragrance is an '80s classic and has a certain rich and vintage feel to it, much like a few other gems we know and love ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the old days people bought perfume by taking their own empty, generic bottles to be filled with their ...

MAKES SCENTS Rare and valuable perfume bottles including CK One and Gucci Envy worth up to £13,000 Scroll to see if you have any of these forgotten fragrances.

The new perfume also has facets of licorice, dried fruit, amber, mandarin, violet, lavender, mint-fresh, rosy geranium, and orris.