Where to get own perfume made?

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Thread for a colleague.

He's getting married soon and wants to give his guests a bottle of perfume each. My Google-fu is failing me, I either end up on sites that want massive orders or perfume making experiences, anyone know of a company that does this? He's looking for about 50 bottles.

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Just wee in a bunch of little bottles? That's your own "perfume" isn't it? At least that's how it works in a lot of the animal kingdom. :D
 
Have no experience in the matter but looking at what some website offers, it will probably cost a fortune to do it bottle by bottle. They could arrange to buy the bottles separately and give it to a scent maker to have it bottled from a purchased refill quantity.

Mini bespoke wedding gifts seem to be exactly the sort of thing Etsy was made for tbh
 
This is what i found on Etsy

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/522...6c6983c72bc6611e17c37d41db4a784f39f:522098647

Seems to be cheaper than a lot of places and looks to be aimed as a wedding gift as it comes in a gold atomiser. I am sure they have a few different bottling options available if gold isn't the wedding theme or whatever. The wedding and party section seems to be full of other options if he decides it's silly expensive.
 
if its cheap it will smell like crap and no one will want it but if they use a good one it will be mega expensive boss
 
When i was a young child and had my holy communion my parents threw a massive party (they are both from different countries where holy communions are big deals). The commemorative gift was pastel, silver and gold coloured, sugar coated almonds on a small cut crystal plate, the whole thing wrapped in a white net lace like fabric and a ribbon to tie it all together with the names of me, my brother and my sister embroidered on the ribbon. One was given to each family/couple that attended, regardless of whether they liked nuts. Moral is that the sweets were not really meant to be eaten and are more of a gesture of thanks to the guests than food. Fun fact is that my parents ordered about 100 and had a few left over, i found some over 20 years later and was like **** it, im going to eat one and see. Didn't get ill, was rock solid but sugared almonds are rock solid anyway.

Perfume bottles sounds like a unique one i have not heard before. Ones i have seen are things like small little wedding cakes with the guest and couples names on it, crystal roses, crystal hearts, framed photo (narcissistic much), hand crafted fabric flower bouquets, personalised glass tumblers for men and campaign flutes for women, small personalised whisky bottles for men and fizz for women and the list goes on. The small wedding cake was my personal favourite, probably a solid block of sugar given it has lasted almost half a decade in the display box it came in.

if its cheap it will smell like crap and no one will want it but if they use a good one it will be mega expensive boss

I disagree with this. Scent is all about personal preference and the price tag is as much due to marketing more than quality. Just how many perfumes out there are expensive yet smell awful?

That said, because it is personal preference, it is difficult to pick a scent that everyone likes but it is not like it is meant to be worn, its just for commemoration.
 
The way to approach this is to buy small empty atomisers and then purchase large bottles of fragrances already available and fill the ones for guests.

Whilst it may smell like something familiar the guests won't know. It also means you can do aftershave for the blokes in the same way.

A colleague got prices for bespoke fragrances for their wedding c70-80 guests and all in including the sampling/blending sessions ranged from £1500-£4k
 
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