Definition
Bottling covers everything that turns filtered perfume into a product ready for sale. It starts once maceration is over and the batch has passed its olfactory control and filtration. It ends when the sealed box goes into storage. Packaging engineers break it down into filling, sealing and packing.
Detail and Context of Use
A typical run has seven steps:
- Pouring. The perfume goes into the bottles quickly, before dust can settle in them. See pouring.
- Fitting the pump. Each bottle receives its spray pump at once, the atomizer.
- Crimping. The pump’s metal collar is closed around the neck, which seals the bottle. On a screw neck, the pump is screwed on instead. See crimping.
- Overcap. The cap goes over the pump and finishes the object. See overcap.
- Inspection. Each bottle is checked before it leaves the line.
- Boxing. The bottle goes into its carton, often wrapped in cellophane.
- Batch coding. A batch code is printed on the carton or the bottle.
Batch coding is a legal duty, not a house habit. The EU Cosmetics Regulation requires a batch number or another reference that identifies the product, which can appear on the outer packaging alone when the bottle is too small. Some independent houses add a traceability stamp that customers can look up online.
The juice itself was prepared upstream. The concentrate delivered by the composition house was diluted into the alcohol base and left to macerate.
Entries Along the Line
Three steps of the bottling run have entries of their own.
Sources
- Denise Fiedler, “How does the fragrance get into the bottle?” Optima Packaging, February 26, 2025
- Fragonard, “La Fabrique des Fleurs,” Fragonard factories website
- Premium Beauty News, report on L’Oréal’s perfume plant in the Aisne, France, December 23, 2020
- Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products, Article 19
- Linda Pilkington, founder of Ormonde Jayne, interview with Osmetheca, September 1, 2026