F rench perfume bottles are high on the list of luxuries, and Chanel No. 5 is perhaps the most quintessential of them all. The classic square glass bottle with a no-frills label is so unassuming ...

Stirling Square Capital Partners has sold Verescence, a French glass packaging maker for the perfumery and cosmetics industry, to Movendo Capital and asset manager Draycott.

His annual Perfume Bottles Auction has become the IYKYK event on every collector’s calendar; at last year’s sale an original 1921 Chanel No. 5 flacon sold for a record-­breaking $72,000.

For the ‘Amphora’ bottle, Christian Dior looked to artist Fernand Guéry-Colas, who had previously designed surrealist perfume flasks for Elsa Schiaparelli. (This 1937 ‘Shocking’ bottle , made in ...

Since 2007 it has been the job of Mathieu Iannarilli, a Paris-based vintage perfume dealer, to track down rare scents for clients who spend from €150 to more than €3,000 per bottle. “Some ...