scent-bottle

English

Alternative forms

• scent bottle

Noun

scent-bottle (plural scent-bottles)

1. A small elegant bottle containing perfume.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 3

     She touched the spring of her dressing-case, and ascertained that the scent-bottle and a novel from Mudie's were both handy

   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House Chapter XII

     There are no caricatures, now, of effeminate exquisites so arrayed, swooning in opera boxes with excess of delight and being revived by other dainty creatures poking long-necked scent-bottles at their noses.