Images by: Long Luu
Cologne and perfume not only focuses on our sense of smelling good but the bottle itself focuses on our sense of sight and design. The companies manufacture each bottle to have a distinctive and attractive look with some being more creative then others. My mom is actually a perfume collector, from the picture you see above that’s how she chose to display her collection, and that is where I found my inspiration for this blog. The perfume bottle design she has is massive with a lot of different types of designs. I see bottles with loops all around it like a roller coaster and one shaped as a sand glass, as well as bottles being shaped as a human figure. The designs on the bottles not only have to correspond with the brand but also appeal to the consumers and attract them to buy it. I see this as an object we see yet we don’t realize that design prevails within it. Sure we all buy it for the smell, but is that really all we’re buying it for? The design of the bottles has to play a role in the purchase as well, wether you're into just a simple sleek bottle or a more complicated looking design, it's all there on the market. The thing is that the smell and the design of the bottle are both created by people in hope that it’ll relate to other people. I mean sure the sole purpose of cologne or perfume is to make you smell good but the design of the bottle also appeals to others as art. We can see the design of the bottle being manipulated through different shapes and sizes, offering an opened door to the universe of design and endless possibilities.