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How important is a frag's bottle to you?

Poll Results: How important is the frag's bottle?

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 1% (1)
    I don't care what it smells like if the bottle is great.
  • 38% (33)
    I don't care what the bottle looks like if the scent is great.
  • 6% (6)
    If the scent is mediocre, a great bottle might put me over the top.
  • 10% (9)
    If the scent is mediocre, an ugly bottle would turn me off.
  • 34% (30)
    If the scent is great, a great bottle is just icing on the cake!
  • 8% (7)
    If the scent is great, I'd just hide the ugly bottle.
86 Total Votes  
post #1 of 26
4/28/08 at 2:21pm
Thread Starter 
I've found that I value the look of the bottle almost as much as the frag itself, and an ugly bottle might turn me off. Likewise, a beautiful bottle might put me over the top on an otherwise mediocre or run-of-the-mill frag.

Is this your experience as well?
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post #2 of 26
4/28/08 at 2:27pm
The bottle itself has no importance to me. I am more concerned/interested with the juice that is inside. If the fragrance happens to come in a beautiful/cool bottle, then that is an added bonus.
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post #3 of 26
4/28/08 at 2:39pm
Thread Starter 
Poll added.
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post #4 of 26
4/28/08 at 2:49pm
I chose option # 2
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post #5 of 26
4/28/08 at 2:54pm
I might be persuaded to buy a mediocre frag if the bottle were really really pretty. But I'd have to at least like the scent. On the other hand, I wouldn't buy a 50ml decant or anything like that, even if the frag were great. Beyond a certain size (say 5ml or so) I want my fragrances in their original bottles.
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post #6 of 26
4/28/08 at 3:25pm
I can't imagine buying a fragrance because of the beauty of the bottle. (Does one buy a book because of the beauty of the cover?) However, if I like a fragrance, the beauty of its bottle would be an added bonus.
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post #7 of 26
4/28/08 at 3:29pm
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Originally Posted by petruccijc View Post

The bottle itself has no importance to me. I am more concerned/interested with the juice that is inside. If the fragrance happens to come in a beautiful/cool bottle, then that is an added bonus.

Same here, it's the juice. Bottle design just helps with identification.

I'm waiting to see the 1% on option #1.
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post #8 of 26
4/28/08 at 3:33pm
I just bought Givenchy Xeryus just because I could get the new deluxe bottle for a discount. The new design is so classy. It's called Xeryus Mythical, I believe.
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post #9 of 26
4/28/08 at 3:37pm
The fragrance is what I'm after, the bottle is nothing more than a container to me.
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post #10 of 26
4/28/08 at 3:53pm
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Originally Posted by Ron199 View Post

The fragrance is what I'm after, the bottle is nothing more than a container to me.

Same for me. If the bottle is cool, it's an extra bonus. If not, no problem.
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post #11 of 26
4/28/08 at 4:29pm
The bottle IS important to me. It ads to the overall experience of the house/brand. I hate ugly decant bottles. I rather pay a bit more for the original bottle.

Picture a pic of a fragrance wardrobe with only decant bottles. Ugly.
It just isn't as nice as some classy bottles standing next to each other.
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post #12 of 26
4/28/08 at 4:40pm
I went with 4 and 5. If the people can't make a creative bottle, why would I trust them to make a creative scent? Granted, they're different, but, yeah.

I remember being quite disappointed with my Armani Code's bottle (which is odd as I knew what it looked like beforehand, thanks to ads). Good thing I like the smell!
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post #13 of 26
4/28/08 at 4:44pm
I would never, ever buy a bottle because of a glitzy bottle. When I buy something, it's purely as a matter of smell.

Having said that, however, I would rather pay a little more and get a real bottle over a tacky decant, if the price differential isn't that significant.
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post #14 of 26
4/28/08 at 9:39pm
I think a more interesting question is: "Would you try to like the frag more (giving it more samplings, etc) if you absolutely loved the bottle?"
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post #15 of 26
4/28/08 at 11:10pm
Tauer's "L'air du Desert Marocain" has a bottle as bland as the Demeter Fragrance Library bottles. But the SCENT!!!! Its heaven!
If the scent is a winner, I will buy, but if the scent AND bottle are great - then BONUS!
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post #16 of 26
4/28/08 at 11:17pm
I don`t care about the bottle if the scent is great.
But sometimes the bottle is totally discomfortable to use - such as DKNY Be Delicious or Motlblanc Presence or Davidoff Echo - if the scent is mediocre (as these I`ve mentioned above) it will be a certain turn-off for me.
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post #17 of 26
4/28/08 at 11:49pm
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Originally Posted by SculptureOfSoul View Post

I think a more interesting question is: "Would you try to like the frag more (giving it more samplings, etc) if you absolutely loved the bottle?"

I Agree. And unfortunately in the case of Nina Ricci's " Memorie d' Homme. " And the funky looking " Pino Silvestre" by Pino, I bought them blind and deeply regretted those purchases. (Yuck!)

I don't care much about the bottle nowdays, provided the freakin' mechanism works . . .

Cheers,

Mario
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post #18 of 26
4/28/08 at 11:52pm
option #2
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post #19 of 26
4/29/08 at 12:09am
I think the bottle matters to most people, unless cost is involved. To those who chose Option 2, if the cost was the same, would you rather have a frag in a cool bottle (like Bond No.9, IMHO), or a plain glass decant bottle? If you said that you would care, than you do care what bottle it comes in lol. Of course, I don't care about the bottle if I can get a much better price, but I'm willing to pay a little extra for a nice bottle (again, Bond No.9 for example, where half of the cost is the bottle itself lol).
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I voted for options 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

I don't think anyone is going to pick option 1, that's just kind of ridiculous lol.
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post #20 of 26
4/29/08 at 12:35am
none....as long as the spray nozzle works
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post #21 of 26
4/29/08 at 2:29am
I recently made a purchase strictly for the bottle, I wasn't terribly crazy for the fragrance ( I had 3 minis) but I was intrigued by the bottle, so when a fairly good deal presented itself, I bought it, the only time I've done that. It was Colours by Alexander Julian .
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post #22 of 26
4/29/08 at 4:40am
The bottle is important to me, but it's secondary to the scent itself. There are bottles that I love, but I don't have that much money to waste just on bottles. However, if there are few scents that are similar to each other, I would probably go with the one that is in nicer bottle.
All in all, scent is the most important thing. And yet, if it's bottled in terrible cheap flacon, it may to down on my to buy list.
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post #23 of 26
4/29/08 at 5:02am
If the scent is great, a great bottle is just icing on the cake!

Like Silver Factory, I love the scent, but the bottle is totally awesome as well! It makes me very happy just to look at!
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post #24 of 26
4/29/08 at 6:40pm
This whole thing is about fragrance for me, so bottle design is almost completely unimportant. My only "bottle" thing is completely opaque bottles. But even that won't keep me from a great smelling fragrance.

A nicely designed bottle can add something but it's minimal.

Bottle collectors would feel differently, I'm sure.
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post #25 of 26
4/29/08 at 6:58pm
It really is about the fragrance. BUT i'm really considering purchasing the limited addition bottle of Prada Amber Pour Homme. I think the bottle is beautiful.
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post #26 of 26
4/29/08 at 7:23pm
Bottle helps, but the juice is really all it's about. However, I notice that I don't use those fragrances where I don't have the bottle (i.e. bottle splits, or large "samples" ) as compared to those in which I do have the bottle. So... bottle counts, at least a little!
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