How do you display your perfumes?

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At the moment, I store mine on my dressing table in front of their original boxes. But my collection is growing and so I need to think of an alternative solution - maybe a shelf or display unit?

On a chest of drawers in my dressing room. No natural light sadly. I don't keep boxes - seems a bit of a faff to keep the perfumes in them and off to display the bottles in front of the boxes

In my old house with its huge dressing room I had them all displayed on five vintage glass cake stands of varying heights. These were on a vintage painted sideboard. They looked great but as everyone said it did make them spoil very quickly.

Now I've moved to a much more modern house, so I've binned the cake stands and I have them in a box in the bathroom cupboards. They seem to last much longer.

My friend has hers on acrylic shelves on a few floating shelves. That looks nice too.

I'm crap with mine and flit from scent to scent by the day, so they're all on show on the dresser. I don't keep them long enough to go off; they go to my niece a soon as I've had enough.

The dusting involved in having them on display, especially factoring boxes into it as well(!), would drive me nuts.

OP, getting back to your original question, I use IKEA Ribba picture ledge shelves to store my (boxed) perfumes above my chest of drawers like this (not mine, but example).

Stick your 'signature scent' up your arse

Let's hope it isn't "Angel" because that would be very sore, although on the other hand it might improve the fragrance

I keep mine all over the place, generally handbags, top drawer of dresser and in hidey-holes in the car.

The dusting, not to mention the all out on display look being a bit provincial nightclub toilet circa 1998

Wow. I have not been wearing the same scent forever. However, I do not chop
and change so that the people I come into contact with daily are confused. I like to smell as pretty as I look. I like the idea of people identifying me by the sweetness of my scent.
Scent is a much better word than perfume, don't you think?

You're coming across as quite odd!

Scent, perfume, signature scent/perfume, lots of different scents/perfumes ... whatever. It's not the sort of thing that needs rules around it.

People should just do whatever they want, really.

This is unrelated to the OPs original question but in reply to Alexa's post.

Perfume (or scent) is subjective. What you think of as your 'sweet smelling/as pretty as you look' scent is somebody else's headache inducing, nauseous stink! .

I understand the thought process behind it. Maybe it goes back to our animal instincts when we were hunter gatherers and our scent was important.

A close friend wore Eternity for years, probably still does. She loved thinking if she walked past, everyone would know it was her because of her perfume. Eternity made me feel ill. My sister practically bathes in CoCo Mademoisellle (so?). When my DD was a newborn, I hated her being held by my sister as i worried about the strong fumes of the perfume suffocating her.

I don't think my perfume can be called pretty. It's not important to me. Pretty is inoffensive, boring and forgettable. A bit like the fruity Aqua Allegorias, except Pamplelune, referenced above by Frugal.

"TheDowagerCuntess

You're coming across as quite odd!"

As are you. Back atcha!!

But heavy perfumes make me feel like puking.

And they make me sneeze. And they make other people sneeze. Why do you think hospital staff working with patients are expected not to use them?

But heavy perfumes make me feel like puking.

Aww! You seem like such a delicate and special snowflake, Alexa.

I would love to have more than one, but I'm afraid it's a luxury nowhere near the top of the list. I hope someone will get me some for Christmas every year, otherwise I wont have any.

Somebody I worked with used Opium and it smelt like stale vomit.

Bottles in the dresser, perfume parlour fakes in the drawer!

They're in the dressing table drawer. Would never leave them out exposed to the light, however pretty they look

My nursing friends love wearing perfume. They buy it ALL the time and say it is BECAUSE they have to lean in close to people and want to smell nice.

My sister doesn't think CoCo is a 'heavy' perfume. That was my point. She thinks it is a regular everyday perfume. She wears it so often that she regularly resprays it because she thinks it has faded. I avoid sitting next to her in the sofa when visiting as I find it suffocating.

However I'm starting to think you are winding us up Alexa :-)

The most I ever have is one, so I don't 'display' it, box/bottle just sits there .

I have a small collection and keep them in a shoebox. Some of the bottles are very pretty and it'd be nice to display them but not good for the perfume.

I am very classy

Florathefern 👏🏻

To answer the original question, I keep most of my perfume bottles boxed in the dark, but also have a few in my bathroom and I keep a bottle of Divine Bergamote on my desk at work. Wouldn't you?

Life is short, whatever brings you the most enjoyment...

Totally unrelated and off topic -

I googled "Diorling Mumsnet" trying to find the discussion on vintage Diors and look what I found - Perfume Shrine has written about the MN thread that started the perfumista threads!

I'm not sure of the issue here. If uou want to wear multiple different perfumes depending on the day or mood, or uou want to display them fair enough. It's not for everyone, either from a practicality perspective or from a personal preference one.

If uou wish to wear one perfume , as I do, then that's also fine. Mine changes every three years or so, but always has the same theme, the soft, powdery, fresh smell, we are all different.

That Bergamote looks beautiful, FF, and J-C Ellena is a legend, and I adore citrus (Diptyque Tarocco above all else) so I may feel a purchase coming on.

My regular perfumes are stored on my dressing table in an old wooden box which was originally for library file cards. Less frequent and seasonal ones, and spares of the core ones, live in the fridge. Decants and samples are in the drawer of the dressing table.

I have no truck with the single signature scent theory: why not wear exactly the same clothes every day if consistency is so desperately important to you? I wear different perfumes for the same reason some days are smart red dress days and others are boots and tunic days.