Bottle Buy for the members of the Natural Perfumers Guild - and a giveaway
The Natural Perfumers Guild has added a new benefit to membership: group bottle buys. What this does is bring affordable, beautiful bottles into the micro-businesses that make up the Guild. No matter what category membership a Guild member holds, they can take part in this. Elise Pearlstine generously offered to help organize the buy and administer it. She made the initial contact with suppliers to identify what was available in case lots, then she received samples from them, and she and I evaluated them. We looked at the bottles and caps available, and determined that yes, even though five or six Guild members might be sharing the same buy, with different caps and labels, there would be enough of an aesthetic difference so that the perfume bottle would be "their own" as it were. After presenting about nine different bottles/sizes to the Guild members via a photo gallery in our private Yahoo group, bottles G and J were selected by those participating in the buy. I