We are the world’s foremost association devoted to the education, promotion, and collection of perfume bottles and vanity items. We’re glad you’re here. Explore our site! Become a member (with benefits)! Join our enthusiastic conversations about collecting and curating these beautiful bits of history. Happy hunting!
The purpose of the International Perfume Bottle Association is to provide information and education about all aspects of perfume and scent bottles, compacts, purses, ephemera, and other related vanity items, including researching their uses, history, manufacture, and significance; to promote collecting of these items; and to promote fellowship among its members and outreach to other collectors.
Dates: Friday April 25th to Sunday April 27th There will be optional tours on Thursday, April 24th, 2025: Antiquing trip to Aurora: rated one of the top 10 best antiquing towns in the nation Tour of the Columbia […]
Do you have “little people” hiding in your home? An amazing number of perfumes and vanity items and their presentations form three-dimensional little people. Not just heads or torsos, full-figured people. Our Virtual Museum contains over 330 of […]
The IPBA Virtual Museum continues to grow its collection of perfumes, compacts, powder boxes, purses, vanity items, and related ephemera. But 10,000 items is just a drop in the bucket given what is out there across all these […]
Celebrate IPBA Day with Us! There will be a global Zoom gathering and a Website Open House! Calling all IPBA Chapters! Let’s come together to celebrate our shared passion for perfume bottles, vanity items, and everything IPBA! Join […]
Do you have perfume bottles or vanity items that you are interested in selling? The PERFUME BOTTLES AUCTION, organized by renowned specialist Ken Leach, is the official annual auction of the International Perfume Bottle Association. This auction is […]
The IPBA website was entered into the 2024 Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors website competition – AND WE WON FIRST PLACE! The IPBA website’s Virtual Museum editors Virginia Merrill (IPBA Webmaster) and Helen Farnsworth (IPBA Archivist) want to thank […]
Would you like to … Learn more about your collection? Become a more discriminating buyer? Meet others with your collecting passion? Learn how to care for and display your collection? If so, this is the place!
One of the benefits of IPBA membership is the Perfume Bottle Quarterly (aka the PBQ). While our archives of 35 years of PBQ issues is for members-only, we’re providing here a sample of our award-winning PBQ for non-members […]
To get the right information so that you can identify, insure, sell or simply appreciate your bottle you should become an educated consumer by researching your bottle or collection. That can be done via several avenues – reference […]
International Perfume Bottle Association
Incorporated in Illinois, USA