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Paper Roses (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-16-10 01:22 PM
THE CHRONICALLY-HELPLESS PRIMITIVE
Original message
Atomizer Cap on perfume bottle broken off. How can I get the perfume out?
Any ideas would help.
I found this wonderful perfume on e-bay. 2 sellers. Bought both. It is no longer made. Certainly I would not use both at once so I put one away. I just took the second bottle out of the box, tried to use it and the atomizer button snapped right off. Since it has been at least a year since I bought it, I have no recourse. I should have checked both immediately. The stem shows signs of glue residue. Oh well, foolish me.
The contents are under pressure. Any thoughts on how I might get the contents out without the bottle exploding?
hippywife (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-16-10 09:37 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Original message
1. When I've had that happen
I just pumped it out on my hand and spread it onto my skin wherever I want it.
Paper Roses (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-17-10 06:53 AM
THE CHRONICALLY-HELPLESS PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #1
2. I forgot to mention, this is a glass bottle with the spray head on the metal top, refined but like a can of starch apparatus. The stem protruded from the top of the bottle and the little spray cap fit over it. Stem snapped off level with top of bottle.
I've wondered if I could drill a tiny hole in the top to release the pressure and then try and somehow drill a larger hole in the metal top and pour the perfume into a different bottle. My concern is that the foolish thing will explode as the pressure is released. I'd have to clamp the bottle to something and use the tiniest drill I could find.
I just checked on e-bay and the few that are available are in the $100-200+ price range. I did not pay anything like that but it is really wonderful perfume and I could never buy it again at these prices. Audace by Rochas.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-17-10 09:58 AM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #2
3. That's the kind I'm talking about
if you turn it over and pump the stem on your hand, the perfume will come out. I don't know anything about drilling it or anything. Sorry.
Since I'm still suffering writer's block in the
War and Peace-length sex novel about Mrs. Alfred Packer, I'm temporarily laying aside the Celestial chapter, and starting a new chapter, in which Mrs. Alfred Packer becomes an Avon lady, and wins a pink Cadillac.
