Turn Your Empty Perfume Bottles Into An Adorable DIY Vase

Perfume and cologne bottles can often be some of the most beautiful glassware in your home, typically sporting color, facets, carved accents, and other beautiful elements that make them a shame to throw out once the perfume is at its end. There are numerous ways to recycle perfume bottles once they're no longer needed for the perfume, including using them as tiny flower vases, from glass bottles for flowers to mini planters for small seedlings and succulents. Without much modification, these bottles make beautiful containers that are perfect for displaying natural elements in your home.

Even better, reusing your perfume bottles is far more eco-friendly than buying new vases and keeps these reusable glass containers out of landfills. With their compact size, they're perfect for adding to tables, mantles, vanities, and bookshelves. They look especially charming when combined with nearby lights like candles or string lights to make them sparkle as part of a beautiful dining table centerpiece. These vases often look gorgeous together in a bunch, so line them on your window ledge or place them on a vanity or dresser amid your current collection of perfumes. Fill bottles with succulents for beautiful wedding favors. There are even a few tricks to customize your vases to fit your decor.

To transform your perfume bottles into stylish bud vases or planters, rinse them out and add a few drops of dish soap to remove any lingering perfume or scent. Remove any labels from the outside, using soap or Goo Gone to remove any remaining residue from the adhesive. To add flowers or trimmings from plants, just add some water to the container and drop them in. To add some plants like succulents, add stones or soil to the container. Perfume bottles also make great containers for tiny air plants.

To customize your bottles after they've been repurposed into beautiful flower vases, add accents like twine or ribbon wrapped around the top or middle. Paint clear glass bottles a solid color like luxe gold or change the color of the glass by adding a mix of Mod Podge and food coloring inside and sloshing it until fully coated for a faux-vintage decor accent. For a fun way to hang the bottles on a wall, use hot glue to affix several in a line to some scrap wood or glue the bottles together for a bud vase trio.