What a fantastic bottle this is, no wonder there are people that collect perfume bottles.

That is a wonderful shape.

Interesting bottle shape.

Splendid colours and light. Excellent shot! :)

Excellent still life. Great light.

Beautiful shot !

OMG, a most similar replica of the Mrs. Butterworth's brand of syrup sold here in the States. Otherwise, a consummate beautiful blending of color, contrast, irridescence, and lovely transparency in this capture, Andrea.

Looks like a periwinkle Very cool

lovely

A really neat looking bottle for sure! It became too expensive to keep my collection going, but I still love to admire the more and more interesting type bottles that come out! I know the feeling all too well when you love a scent, but it just doesn't seem to work with the body's chemistry. Wonderful lighting and composition, Dear Andrea!

The bottle seems a complete oddity to me, but both of your photos are well done!

Very attractive bottle. It looks a bit like the queen from a chess board.

Another lovely bottle!!

At least you got To photograph the bottle.

Both photos are well done and I am quite captivated by the shape of the bottle and cap!

Oh i like this bottle nice shot of it.

A plant-inspired cap, and the bottle has a tail. What a marvelous fantasy piece!

Terrific lighting for this subject!

I'm gonna get serious, for a minute, about your perfume work. Whenever you take-on perfume bottles, you become all concentration, your eye is on that bottle (or bottles), on how to best capture it, how to best place it against a surrounding, how to get the surrounding to best set-off the bottle, how to find what's inherent in the bottle's curves and hues, etc. It feels as if everything you do---once you've chosen to do it---is in the service of that bottle. I realize, of course, that the process may be faster and more intuitive than those statements imply, but I'm not implying anything different: just that there's real concentration and intensity in this series, and that you appear wholly dedicated to letting the bottle speak in its native tongue... The bottle looks like a cat at rest (with a lotus-leaf crown). Maybe it's not; but then the title---'delicate spice'? 'delicacy of spices'?---doesn't suggest a cat. But there's something organic about the bottle, all the same; something at rest or coiled-up...Whatever it is, you've captured the heft of the curves via light, translucence and hue alone; and used reflection to highlight their shapes. And, though I don't know if these come from the bottle or from the background, you've got diagonals criss-crossing the bottle---moving in the opposite direction of the bottle's curves themselves. Those 'criss-cross' diagonals look like paint-blobs bleeding into the perfume: a wonderful effect. (I admit it's clumsy to talk about these things, but wholly natural to see them.) Then, you use the background you've used in other perfume captures---a golden/yellow, unarticulated background (ie, no discernible table-top or wall behind)---with one side warmer than the other, or one side darker than the other (etc). A bifurcation of the plane, in other words. (How many Rembrandts show a figure half in dark and half in light, or surrounded by light background on one side with a darker on the other?) And the light on the cap makes the cap appear like flames... And, in keeping with this series, while your organic forms are often in play (and even giddiness) in other works, your perfume series pare this down to essentials: ie, simple curves, cross-diagonals, transparency against solidity, reflections against actual matter (glass), etc. They're 'minimal' but still opulent: It's what makes this series so sensual. The tones do suggest cinnamon, btw; and the reflection of the bottle at bottom does suggest a 'surface'. (You do surface-less backgrounds consummately in these shots, where planes are suggested rather than articulated...) Really Andrea, this series is like your Bach Inventions: Small pieces, yes, with a smaller number of problems per piece than, say, your fugues: But Bach all the same, with the same eye behind it. Like jewels would sound if jewels sounded...Another sensual entry in this unerringly terrific series.