Perfume

[jennyjoan]

I know I have posted about this before but still am left with 3/4 of a bottle of pretty expensive perfume but top/pump was not working and I have lost it now. Any way I can get some perfume out of it short of breaking the bottle. Have tried other perfume's tops to no avail.

[janbee]

I usually transfer the top from another bottle onto the faulty one but you say you've already tried that. Sorry jj, Can't help you in this case. Hope somebody can come up with a solution for you

[mallyh]

i had a bottle of perfume from superdrug it cost nearly £30 i used a bit then the top fell off and wouldn't work again took it back and they said they would get in touch with the maker don't know if they did but i recieved a superdrug voucher for £24 .

[MargoTester]

You could take it back to the shop that you bought it from, if nothing else they should be able to give you a point of contact for the manufacturer and you can take it up with them. I have done this in the past and received a pre-paid bag in which to return the perfume and got a replacement and some samples. Worth a try.

[jennyjoan]

Might try that Margo - must make an effort to go into town and it is a real effort. thanks for that suggestion

[Old_Geezer]

Probably going to show my ignorance of all things perfumy here but, if you can change tops, can you not transfer the contents of the bottle into a working one as an alternative ?

Weird that other (fitting presumably) tops also fail though. Not sure I can get my head around that fact. If a perfume doesn't spray surely it is the top that is the problem ? Or do particularly thick perfumes not get through the hole in thin perfume bottle tops ?

[mallyh]

the tops are sealed on to the bottle and the pump fits on to that .

[Old_Geezer]

Ah then it is the top that has the blockage. Ok.

Well see the retailer first, but my guess is that you will need to cut the top off somehow. Not sure what you'd keep the perfume in afterwards though, but it must be possible to pick up the old fashioned normal perfume bottles, from your grandmother's era, in the antique shops :-)