# Securing perfume flacons: the contents eat the stopper, the glass shatters

> Secure perfume flacons: separate contents and bottle if the stopper suffers, store them dark and without shocks.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/parfumflakons-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

An old flacon is glass and often still contents that attack the stopper or have long since lost the scent. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you decide whether the price sits on the glass or on the fill, and you store it accordingly.

## Storage

Without shocks, dark, upright, not in the sun. If the contents eat through the stopper, you get advice before you pull it by force. Do not wash the labels off. They are the proof.

## If someone comes

Small, glass, visible in a display case by the door. The rare flacons stand farther inside, or in the cabinet. List: house, scent as far as it can be read, full or empty, proof, photo of the label.


## Häufige Fragen

### Stopper by force?

No. If it sticks, you get advice. A cracked neck is the end.

### Take the label off?

No. It belongs to the piece.

### A display case by the door?

Then people see it. The rare ones stand somewhere else.