Five components, one accountable partner.
Most quality failures in fragrance packaging happen between suppliers — the pump that does not seat on the neck, the cap two shades off the bottle, the box cut for the old flacon. Buying the family from one coordinating partner closes those gaps. Here is each piece, with the honest minimum attached to it.
| Component | Options | Realistic minimum | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass flacon | 30 / 50 / 100 ml stock shapes; super-flint or standard flint; 10 ml travel & 2 ml vials | 500–1,000 pcs stock, clear 3,000–5,000 sprayed 10,000+ own mould | Clear glass shows every flaw, so perfume lines reject harder than jar lines — that is why sprayed minimums sit slightly above skincare glass. |
| Spray pump | Crimp FEA 15 · screw 15/415 & 18/415 · fine-mist 60–100 µL dose | 1,000 pcs stock silver/gold 10,000 custom-colour collar | The pump is where fragrance packaging fails. We buy only from dedicated fragrance-pump lines and test atomisation on every order — see QC below. |
| Cap | ABS sprayed · aluminium · wood · magnetic close | 2,000–5,000 sprayed ABS 5,000–10,000 magnetic / plated | Plating and magnets follow the closure rule from our MOQ guide: the line is set up for your tone alone. |
| Collar / ferrule | Aluminium, anodised or sprayed, matched to pump | 10,000 custom tone stock silver/gold lower | Usually the constraint on a small custom-colour run — we often solve it with a stock collar plus custom cap instead. |
| Rigid box | Rigid or folding, EVA/paper insert, hot stamp, soft-touch laminate | 1,000–2,000 pcs | Cut for the exact flacon after glass is confirmed — never in parallel. The insert is measured off the approved sample. |
The practical read: a fully custom-coloured family lands around 3,000–5,000 sets. Below that, the honest route is a stock flacon and stock collar with your colour carried by the cap, the box and the print — it reads premium on shelf and starts near 1,000 sets.
Crimp or screw — decided in one table.
This choice is structural: it sets your neck standard, your filler requirements and whether the bottle can ever be refilled. It cannot be changed after the glass order.
| Crimp (FEA 15) | Screw (15/415 · 18/415) | |
|---|---|---|
| Look | Seamless, classic fine fragrance | Visible collar — near-identical from arm's length with a good anodised collar |
| Filling | Requires a crimping machine — confirm your filler's capability in writing before ordering glass | Any filler, including hand-fill at small scale |
| Refillable | No — pump is permanent; a failed crimp scraps the bottle | Yes — relevant for EU PPWR-era sustainability claims |
| Spray quality | Finest, most even mist | Very good from a fragrance-grade pump; poor from a generic toner pump — this is a pump-quality question, not a thread question |
| Our honest default | Prestige positioning with a proper co-packer | First indie launch — unless crimping capability is confirmed in writing |
Our QC protocol is built around the pump.
Around six in ten fragrance packaging failures are pump failures — weak atomisation, leak-back, dead pumps out of the box. Glass rarely fails; sprayers do. So our pre-shipment inspection for perfume packs goes beyond the standard AQL visual check:
- Atomisation test — sampled pumps sprayed to a target card; mist pattern compared against the retained golden sample.
- Actuation count — pumps must prime within a specified number of strokes and deliver a consistent 60–100 µL dose.
- Leak & torque — inverted dwell test on sealed units; collar torque within specification.
- Fit as a set — pump on bottle, cap on collar, flacon in box insert. Components QC'd together, not in isolation.
- Retained samples — a sealed golden sample of your approved pack is kept for the life of the programme, so reorders are checked against the same physical reference.
One boundary, stated plainly: we supply empty packaging. Once filled, alcohol-based fragrance ships as dangerous goods — that is your filler's and freight forwarder's domain, and anyone who casually offers to handle it for you is a flag, not a favour.
One Pantone, one run, one hand.
Sprayed lacquer and gradients on glass, anodised or sprayed collars, sprayed ABS or wood caps, printed and laminated board — four materials that only match if they are developed against one Pantone reference and approved together. We run the family's decoration in one coordinated pass and you approve physical samples of every component side by side, in one hand, before production. Full finish menu: matte lacquer, gloss lacquer, gradient (ombré), frosting, silk screen up to four colours, hot stamping, soft-touch coating, electroplated accents.
If you are also building candles, diffusers or home sprays around the same identity, the same colour-run logic extends across the whole collection — see home fragrance packaging.
Around the flacon.
Frequently asked
Tell us your flacon — we'll quote the whole pack.
Size, quantity, crimp or screw if you know it, and your colour direction. We come back within 24 hours with matching flacon families and indicative FOB pricing for the full set — bottle, pump, cap and box.
Worth reading first.
- Perfume glass bottles from China — the buyer's guide — flacon manufacturing, glass grades, crimp vs screw necks, decoration options and the MOQ reality behind the listings.
- Real minimum order quantities, by route — the published thresholds behind every number on this page, and the two legitimate ways to get under them.
- Sourcing partner, factory or trading company — which do you actually need? — including the honest case against using a sourcing partner at all.