Novichok perfume bottle ‘had enough nerve agent to kill 4,000 people’ | Custom Perfume Bottles

For many of us, having options is key when it comes to the beauty world. However, perfume is a typically a bit cost prohibitive to amass a large collection. Luckily, these days there are options beyond the department store counter that can save you money as well as offer you the opportunity to create your very own custom, signature scent.

Those who buy a bottle of the multimillion-dollar fragrance are invited to fly around the world with the company during the process of selecting ingredients and creating the unique bottle — in Morreale’s private jet.

Clean beauty is the fastest-growing segment within the $1 trillion wellness beauty industry, reports the Global Wellness Institute. Big brands and retail conglomerates are being forced to consider alternative practices if they want to keep a competitive edge. In the last year, Sephora pushed Clean, the retailer’s new category free of toxic ingredients. Even CVS announced it will eliminate parabens, phthalates, and the most prevalent formaldehyde donors (preservative ingredients that can release formaldehyde over time) from nearly 600 beauty and personal care products by the end of 2019.

The frustrating experience inspired Chen to launch Skylar Body, a year-old, direct-to-consumer company devoted to vegan fragrances free of harsh chemicals. In lieu of parabens or phthalates, her line relies on natural oils and organic sugar cane alcohol. Scents come in “seductive” aromas with notes of vanilla, patchouli, and jasmine, or more zesty citrus scents from grapefruit and neroli. A 1.7-ounce bottle starts at $78.

Boss Babe, Babe Dreams and Babe Power make up a range of gorgeous new limited-edition Christmas baubles. Available to buy from the Fragrance Shop and Missguided, the festive sets are just £8 – meaning they’re an affordable stocking filler and a great gift for a Secret Santa.

To get started on your own personalized Hawthorne cologne, you take a very simple quiz. It asks basic questions about your current cologne, diet, favorite drinks, personality, and style. If you note that you’re an expert (or at least have strong opinions) on fragrances, you’ll also get to choose two of your favorite fragrance categories. Aquatic, Dry Wood, Citrus, Chypre, and Floral are just some of the selections.

The glitter factory is located in a beige business park, a short walk from the office of a company that makes sidewalks for airports and a nut plant. Inside the Glitterex vestibule, a glass display case burst with glitter-suffused products that I agreed to not describe, even vaguely. Aside from the display, there were scant other hints of the building’s glorious purpose.

That is, until one entered the bottling warehouse itself, which looked like an industrial manufacturing plant colonized by pixies. The concrete floor was finely coated with what appeared to be crushed moonbeams. The forklift winked with shiny crimson flecks. The metal coils of the conveyor belt shone with a rainbow crust. And yet, the space gave the impression of being tidy and well-swept, not unlike a Dust Bowl kitchen if the prairie topsoil had been Technicolor. Near the entrance, metal shelves taller than a man were laden with over one thousand jumbo jars of glitter samples arranged by formulation, color, and size: emerald hearts, pewter diamonds, and what appeared to be samples of the night sky collected from over the Atlantic Ocean. There were neon sparkles so pink you have only seen them in dreams, and rainbow hues that were simultaneously lilac and mint and all the colors of a fire. On one shelf, hundreds of jars of iridescent white fairly glowed. The prettiest shade was slightly violet.

Aprons by Jem latex dish gloves with sequined trim. $45. Available in Neiman Marcus Beverly Hills store and neimanmarcus.com.

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Feng shui is based on the idea that when you clear away negative energy at home, you create more room for flow or "chi"—something we can’t necessarily see, but we can feel. 

At $56 for 1.7 fluid ounces, Ouai’s fragrances are something that upscale scents rarely are: affordable. "Ouai is and has always been about attainable luxury," Atkin says. "The price point was really important to us." And in typical Ouai fashion, the bottles are chic as hell. They were designed in partnership with New York City-based branding and marketing firm Case Agency, who also counts Summer Fridays as a client. (Remember those aluminum tubes? Yeah, we thought so.) "We were inspired by Chanel in the 1920s: simplistic, luxe, and chic," Atkin reveals. "The bottle itself took us a while to perfect because we wanted to make sure it was perfect."