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Best company in bottle design

Poll Results: Which one is more creative and their productions are match to fragrance?

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 14% (15)
    Kenzo
  • 8% (9)
    Yves Saint Laurent
  • 15% (16)
    Amouage
  • 5% (6)
    Creed
  • 4% (5)
    Giorgio Armani
  • 0% (1)
    Carolina Herrera
  • 1% (2)
    Paco Rabbane
  • 11% (12)
    Dior
  • 0% (0)
    Escada
  • 0% (0)
    Kenneth Cole
  • 6% (7)
    Annick Goutal
  • 1% (2)
    Jean Paul Gaultier
  • 28% (30)
    Other
105 Total Votes  
post #1 of 41
5/15/10 at 2:52pm
Thread Starter 
I believe most of the time bottle design affect our judgement about a fragrance. usually we talk about lasting or quality of a perfume, but we forget design. If it's not true, so why companies waste their time for designing. Some of them attend this subject, spend their time and money for their production, and make without defect perfume.
For example using black color and woody cap for Encre Noir is completely competence. When you see the bottle, without sniffing you can predict what it is.
Or if one person didn't hear about Kouros before, In first sniff maybe he(she) confuses. because of white bottle. on habit i expect light or cold scent by seeing white color.
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post #2 of 41
5/15/10 at 3:02pm
Ok I know I'm a little bond no.9 fanboy but I think their bottle design looks spectacular - they're modern and trendy but not too ridiculous and entirely unique. Recoloring the bottles for every edition rather than changing the shape to retain the image was a pretty solid move.
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post #3 of 41
5/15/10 at 3:07pm
+1 on everything Vladdy said about Bond. Going in the other direction, Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme was one I initially skipped over as I first started exploring fragrances due to what was a boring bottle design to me. It turns out that it would probably make my top 10.
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post #4 of 41
5/15/10 at 3:19pm
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Originally Posted by Vladdypwnz View Post

Ok I know I'm a little bond no.9 fanboy but I think their bottle design looks spectacular - they're modern and trendy but not too ridiculous and entirely unique. Recoloring the bottles for every edition rather than changing the shape to retain the image was a pretty solid move.

Couldn't agree more! Bottles from Bond No. 9 are a piece of art! I haven't smelled any of their creations but I'd buy all the bottles only for their looking; to have them on my shelf admiring them all day long.
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post #5 of 41
5/15/10 at 3:32pm
Thread Starter 
Kenzo is most creative. some of them follow a template to design. like Amouage, Annick Goutal, Creed, Hermes,...
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post #6 of 41
5/15/10 at 3:32pm
From the list, my favorites are kenzo and amouage.
But in my case, design doesn't affect me at all when choosing a fragrance. I pay attention more to the notes and to the perfumer than to the design itself. To me, all fragrances could be sold in plain dark bottles and I would'nt care att all, as long as the juice inside of them are marvelous.
Besides Bond Nº9, i'm also missing ramon molvizar on that list. They really have stunning bottles to their fragrances:
http://www.ramonmolvizar.com/
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post #7 of 41
5/15/10 at 4:30pm
Iinterestingly, I note that most of the niche scents pick one design, and everything comes in a variation of that same bottle.

Designer frags are all about the bottle design.
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post #8 of 41
5/15/10 at 4:34pm
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Originally Posted by StylinLA View Post

Iinterestingly, I note that most of the niche scents pick one design, and everything comes in a variation of that same bottle.

Designer frags are all about the bottle design.

They do this for two purposes: create a collection identity and to tone down the costs related to bottle. They spend less with the bottle if they use a variation of the same bottle with all fragrances, and then they focus (or should focus) in better fragrance materials. And, besides that, going on a bottle standardization makes you concentrate your impressions in the juice, that's the main purpose of a niche scent.
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post #9 of 41
5/15/10 at 4:58pm
I happen to like the Ineke line. Attractive bottles worthy of being displayed.
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post #10 of 41
5/15/10 at 5:10pm
I had to give it to Kenzo. I love all the bottle designs they have. Kenzoair Intense, Kenzo Power, and Pour Homme get the nod as being especially great on the men's side, the female bottles are also very appealing.
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post #11 of 41
5/15/10 at 10:31pm
Kenzo, hands down. Runner up: Tom Ford.
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post #12 of 41
5/15/10 at 10:48pm
Lalique. There's something about the bottle shapes and etchings that make them artefacts in themselves.
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post #13 of 41
5/15/10 at 11:15pm
Annick Goutal for me. I like it when houses use standardized bottles, and I like the rectangles used by Annick Goutal and Diptyque. I got a bottle of Korres too, and it's fantastic in the rectangle format too. I've also liked the aluminium bottles that Fragonard, CSP, and Montale use.
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post #14 of 41
5/15/10 at 11:43pm
Malle....SIMPLE
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post #15 of 41
5/16/10 at 12:42am
definitely kenzo
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post #16 of 41
5/16/10 at 12:51am
Kenzo is creative and artistic.

Amouage is luxurious and diffirent.

Dior is beautiful.

I hate Annick Goutal bottles. They are look cheap and old. But, Annick is so much more beautiful than Bond.

What a pity I don't see Comme des Garcons here. CdG is the best company in bottle design IMO.
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post #17 of 41
5/16/10 at 1:06am
I voted for "Other", since the simple and classic bottle designs of Chanel, Penhaligons or ADP never cease to amaze me in their classy understatement
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post #18 of 41
5/16/10 at 2:20am
Other = CHANEL ... I love their female bottles,
especially 5; 19; Coco; and Coco Mad.'s EdP!

Closely followed by DIOR, then GIVENCHY..!
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post #19 of 41
5/16/10 at 3:11am
chanel? really?
they are as basic as you can get.
the inclusion of the word "especially" makes me think this is a joke.
is there any difference between chanel bottles apart from the sticker?

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post #20 of 41
5/16/10 at 3:18am
I vote for other. Namely:Lalique
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post #21 of 41
5/16/10 at 3:46am
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Originally Posted by sarıpatates View Post

chanel? really?
they are as basic as you can get.
the inclusion of the word "especially" makes me think this is a joke.
is there any difference between chanel bottles apart from the sticker?

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Yeah, really! Their EdP flacons has the single most gorgeous bottle design
on the market ... the EdT bottles are nothing special, though, looks fake!

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post #22 of 41
5/16/10 at 4:51am
I voted Amouage & Goutal (and other).

I guess I like a 'house' look and both of these cover their Masculine / Femme lines really nicely and the Amouage Attars are perfect. Other lines whose look I like include Malle, Heeley, Hermessences 15ml, The Different Company incl. Travel Set (masterpiece of contemporary design IMO), Villoresi (very cool), Lutens and the new Maison Francis Kurkdjian.

One offs . . . 10 Corso Como, Hotel Costes, Cartier Declaration, Voyages d'Hermes, Patou Pour Homme, Guerlain Bees, Creed Flacons.
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post #23 of 41
5/16/10 at 6:30am
Bond No 9 gets my vote.
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post #24 of 41
5/16/10 at 6:39am
Vintage bottles win hands down imho . You cant even compare modern design vs Lalique for D'Orsay and the like
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post #25 of 41
5/16/10 at 6:43am
Bond no. 9 here as well. Can't wait to get my hands on the Montauk bottle er........juice. Here's hoping the juice will be as good as the bottle.
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post #26 of 41
5/16/10 at 6:43am
I love Amouages, Malles, Goutals and tauers designs.
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post #27 of 41
5/16/10 at 7:34am
I think most of Paco Rabanne's fragrances people just because of their bottles.
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post #28 of 41
5/16/10 at 7:52am
Personally, my favorite fragrance bottle is the Encre Noire EDP, but as a house on a whole, my vote goes to Burberry. As someone said, designer houses generally have to concentrate on bottle design, and between Burberry London, Brit and the Beat (especially the Beat Intense Elixir), I think they have the most unique and interesting bottles.
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post #29 of 41
5/16/10 at 3:47pm
Best house as a whole, I believe I'd give it to Micallef.
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post #30 of 41
5/16/10 at 10:23pm
Xerjoff bottles are really nice
Amouage presentation is really nice as well, but I really dislike the atomizer.
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post #31 of 41
5/16/10 at 10:50pm
I'm shocked that you didn't add Burberry to that list
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post #32 of 41
5/17/10 at 3:50am
I love the bottles in Tom Ford's Private Collection. Also Bvlgari and Ralph Lauren

I could name a bunch individually -- London, Dirty English, Safari.. but that defeats the purpose.. it's actually hard picking a house with all excellent bottles.
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post #33 of 41
5/17/10 at 11:56am
I really like Chanel's Bottles. I voted other.
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post #34 of 41
5/17/10 at 3:19pm
I voted for AG their plain square bottles are tres mignon, however i don't really like the sphere bottles with the butterfly stopper
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post #35 of 41
5/17/10 at 3:33pm
I've lost count of the number of wonderful Guerlain bottles.

The classic Chanel bottle is fantastic as well. It's the absolute embodiment of elegance.
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post #36 of 41
5/17/10 at 7:22pm
I Vote Xerjoff for sure

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post #37 of 41
5/17/10 at 9:18pm
I like my bottles streamlined and simple: Chanel, Serge Lutens, Comme des Garçons, Penhaligon's... and I love Guerlain gendarme bottle (L'Heure Bleue & Mitsouko)
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post #38 of 41
5/17/10 at 9:48pm
From that list, definitely Kenzo. Their bottles are always artful.
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post #39 of 41
5/17/10 at 10:11pm
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I have a personal preference for the uniform, classy, simple look of a collection of Lutens spray bottles. But when it comes to edginess and creativity, I would say CDG.
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post #40 of 41
5/18/10 at 11:49am
Well, I thought I'd update with some pictures! I have these saved on my pc just for these threads.



Martine Micallef


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post #41 of 41
5/18/10 at 11:55am
While they aren't my favorite bottles, I had to include Paco Rabanne in my vote, as I think the bottles for 1 Million as well as the Ultraviolet series are interesting, innovative, and really mesh well with the fragrances within.

My other votes went to Amouage (classy - and I love the pedestal box packaging, too!), and Jean Paul Gaultier, almost solely because of the Le Male and especially the FdM bottles. Gaultier^2 was a cool concept too, even though I hated the frag!
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