Turn Your Perfume Bottle Into A Fragrance Diffuser

“This is what I call a make-up, when I look at something and think, how can I make this up and maybe make it a bit better than what it is? I’ll keep my used perfume bottles for years sometimes, before I make them up into something else. I don’t tend to take the labels o , because I think they’re really pretty. But I do need to remove the spray nozzle.”

What you need:

Protective gloves, if you have them

Pliers

Old perfume bottle

Little funnel

Di user re ll oil and di user sticks

1 The trick is, wear a pair of protective gloves and get a pair of pliers – I use the ones in my toolkit.

2 Then, as you’re looking at the perfume bottle, you’ll see the piece of metal that clasps around the top of the glass bottle will sort of lip over the edges. Use the pliers to gently squeeze and lift up the metal lip, rmly but slowly working all the way around.

3 Then give it a little shake and it should just come o . I’ll then put a little funnel in there, pour in some di user oil that I’ve picked up in the shops, and then add some di user sticks. Or, if I feel like using it as a vase, I add a fake ower. Easy!

“You can do a similar thing with any crusty old fragrance di user that’s got all dried-up and yellow-looking. Just carefully pour in boiling water to get rid of any yellow staining, then refresh it with new di user oil and sticks. I also lled the bottom third of one of mine with little white pebbles from my garden and added a ower – a fake white rose. I love looking at it now: I think, I made that!”