CLEOPATRA'S BOUDOIR

Collecting tester bottles is a category in itself. Most companies had small glass bottles, fitted with long glass daubers on which a customer could try out the perfume. Sometimes these small bottles were set inside a tester rack, which would be displayed on the perfume counter.

Some of the more collectible testers are the ones for Chanel, Coty, Houbigant and Guerlain.

Here is a great set from LT Piver, dating to the 1910-1920 period.

Here is a set from Coty, circa 1920s.