Perfume and its container (1/2)
Some time ago, the topic named "Chypre" I asked Claudio, architect and designer who follows this blog, if he thinks there are bottles now able to do justice to their content. Bottles, i.e., where the content and the container tell of the same aesthetic vision, or which have the same level of design. Both in commercial perfumery and in artistic, clearly. So Claudio wrote a report (necessarily brief and not exhaustive in the least, but rich in stimuli) to explain his vision of this issue. I immediately asked if I could publish it to share with you all. Claudio was nice and said yes, and here's to you the first part of his report. Tomorrow we'll talk about today's bottles. "The design of perfume bottles evolved parallel to taste and styles defining the different eras: design has always been influenced by stimuli and moods en vogue in the society. Also, scents have been related to alchemy, its alembics and mysterious looking containers: a paradigmatic bottle is