Randomly glancing at my new perfume at level and noticed it’s specifically designed glass bottom to slant to the left where the hose is to ensure easy use of the pump to spray the last amount. Thought this was interesting, and smart for expensive perfume.

What is the perfume?

Just curve for men which isn’t very expensive. I also find it mildly interesting that the 5th most expensive liquid in the world is the perfume Chanel No. 5 at $26,000 a gallon.

I wonder if Chanel No. 5 is even close to that expensive to produce or if it's entirely just an exclusivity thing.

or are they slanting it so they can reduced the amount in the bottle?

It's just a bad smell too. I don't get Chanel 😄

20ml is 20ml doesn't matter the shape of the bottle lol

You couldn't make any profit from producing it, if it was that expensive to produce, but it isn't just exclusivity either. Creating a good scent that sells isn't free or easy, so those failures/experimental costs are baked in to the price. The ingredients used can also really be incredibly expensive, the bottles it comes in tend to be much fancier than the mass produced crap, and marketing the product is expensive. The price you pay for the stuff has to cover all that and still make a nice profit for the company.

At this point, Chanel No. 5 just smells like “old rich lady sitting alone in her upper west side apartment”.

Doubt that's intentional.

Did you know that certain perfumes use feces for their aroma profile?

In this day and age that type of thing happens but the hose on the left is perm planted right where it tapers down.

Exactly. My coworker got it as a present and she gifted it to out workplace toilet as air freshener lol.

If that's what it's for then it feels extremely unnecessary considering you can just pick up the bottle and angle it whichever way you want.

Among perfumes, Chanel No 5 isn’t even one of the more expensive. Chanel has an exclusifs line that is about twice as costly ($300+ for 100 ml, vs $150 for Chanel No 5). Other niche perfume brands may charge $400-1000 or more for 100 ml. Check out Aftelier, Roja Dove Creation E, Ensar Oud, House of Matriarch, etc.

Yes, I know profit margins are a thing. But my question is whether those margins are reasonable, compared to other kinds of products (say 5%-15%), or is it almost entirely profit, (like does it only cost them like $50 to make). That's why I said "even close".

You sure every bottle comes like this?

That’s one expensive air freshener!

Most cheap glass containers have sloped bottoms, I doubt it’s intentional.

r/antiassholedesign

"say 5%-15%" Big supermarket chains: *Laughs in 300%+"

I wish hand cream bottles had similar designs. I'm currently in dipstick mode for the next month or so.

Hey that's actually really cool.

What supermarket products have a 300% profit margin? Remember, profit is after all costs. A 300% markup is not the same thing as 300% profit.

Yep.

Remember seeing a post like this a while back and some dude who makes glass containers commented that this is a manufacturing defect, something about uneven cooling I believe. Too lazy to go find the other post, but I assume someone will dig it up after reading this post.

Depends on the old lady?

I once thought of patenting this idea... I sit on millions of dollars in the form of not implemented business plans.

Right and if the little inside part doesn’t reach this wouldn’t help anyways

On perfume and Aftershave bottles it is an intentional inclusion. You know it's intentional because the tube is always long enough to bottom it out.

If it was meant to not be sloped, you would end up with some left in the bottom that the diffuser couldn't reach.

Every bottle I have had (both expensive and cheap) had a similar internal design.

Every bottle i have on my shelf (6 total) and my wifes (4 total) all have a slant and a long enough tube to bottom it out.

That makes me 10/10.

Pretty sure my old bottles were the same.

I meant it like they produce it for 100% then sell it for 400%

Will look that up. The “most expensive liquid” lists on the interwebbles are usually very old and not updated.

Supermarket's don't produce anything. They buy stuff from distributors or producers and then resell it. Are you suggesting supermarkets you go to are buying things for x and then selling it for 4*x, or are you suggesting that they buy it for x and then sell for (x+c)*4 where c is a proportional amount of all their other costs?

I'm talking about profit margins which subtract out all their costs. Everything I can find says that grocery stores typically operate on 1%-3% profit margins. Nowhere near the absurd rate you're suggesting.