Perfume is one of the most powerful cosmetics around. With just a spritz, it can unlock memories, make us feel glamorous, and even serve as a prelude to romance. There’s also a lovely sense of ritual ...

Mary Duke has a couple of thousand bottles in his attic. There are more in the house, some on shelves, some stashed in drawers. Many of them came directly out of the damp, dark Houston gumbo along ...

Perfume is always a popular Mother’s Day gift. It combines luxury and sentiment — the sense of smell is closely linked to emotion and memory — and lasts much longer than a bouquet of flowers. Perfume ...

About a year ago, I decided to clean out a shed that adjoins my house. I found several antique bottles – soda bottles, medicinal bottles and old fruit jars. I remembered, in the back of my mind, that ...

Johnny made the leap from dairy to soda bottles and says he’s made a lot of friends in the collecting community.

There's something undeniably charming about vintage advertising items. They're like little time capsules, each piece ...

Joseph Reish doesn’t mind people knowing he loves to turn up bottles – not to drink from mind you, but to collect, buy, sell, trade and track their origin. Since age 8, the Suffolk native has ...

VERNON, Iowa -- Two muscular men spent a sun-dappled afternoon in this Southeast Iowa community poking metal prods a few feet into the soft soil near the banks of the Des Moines River.