agree with DCM... Perfume bottle pendants date back to the days of early Europe. These perfume bottles served the dual purpose of being a piece of jewelry as well as an item of use carrying in it the ladies perfume. I've also read that these little scent bottles came in handy as a means to sniff when a women of the 19th century pass by all the garbage left in the streets in those days as the smell was overwhelming and a sniff of the perfume would cover up the terrible smell and prevent her from gagging on the stench of rotting garbage.