How to Choose the Right Perfume Cap for Your Brand

There are many choices of perfume caps in the market. According to material classification, there will be metal perfume caps, plastic perfume caps and wooden perfume caps.
How to choose the best cap for your perfume? Before choosing, it’s important to know well each material and understand their characteristics.

1. Metal Perfume Cap
There are two commonly used material for metal caps-aluminum&zamac (zinc alloy).
1). Aluminum perfume caps
Most of the aluminum caps are with existing molds, and the style is relatively simple. Due to the limits of material, it’s not available to be made into a variety of designs. Price of aluminum cap is low, they are more suitable for the fast selling perfumes and market perfumes.

2). Zamac Perfume Cap
In recent years, more and more brands, especially Niche Perfume Brands, have chosen to use zamac caps for their perfume bottles.
Zamac caps are becoming more and more popular because they can be made with various metallized finishes to make the full bottle look upscale, heavy and cool to the touch.
In Europe, major perfume brand has been used or zamac cap instead, zinc ally material is environmentally-friendly, comparing with plastic.But personalized zamac caps don’t come cheap, which is why Luxury or Niche brands use them more.

2. Plastic Perfume Caps
Plastic caps contains ABS, Surlyn, acrylic material.
1) ABS cap
The ABS material is flexible and can be designed as a special cap, and they can be customized in different decorations with many surface treatments, such as UV coating, metalized, watertransfer printing, etc. ABS cap is not as expensive as zamac caps, it can be a good choice for middle markets and more complex designs.

2) Surlyn cap
Surlyn is very popular in the US, many Eau de Toilette Perfume brands like to use Surlyn lid as a bottle cap because it is a kind of special resin, surlyn is highly transparent which looks like the crystal, it’s corrosion resistant, and it can touch perfumes directly. Surlyn can be made into a transparent or matte bottle cap, or any color is available. There are many surlyn caps with existing mold, customized design is acceptable.

3) Acrylic cap
The acrylic cap can be made in same color as the surlyn caps, it can be made high transparent, or any color, but acrylic cannot touch perfume directly, tt’s brittle and cracks easily. Acrylic caps were once very popular but now not many brands using it.

3. Wooden Perfume Cap
To use original wood as a bottle cap reminds people of nature, earth, forest, environment. Wooden perfume cap is always popular among some brands in Europe. It is particular for classic fragrance with timelasting. It can be made to different shapes and painting with any colors, ancient or modern.

General speaking, the choice of perfume cap depends on the positioning of perfume. If your perfume brand is luxurious series, high-end zamac caps is best choice.  If the perfume belongs to the fast selling category of perfume, so plastic caps or aluminum metal caps would be a good option. In addition to the cost, the mission of the brand, the collocation with the bottle, the feasibility of design and production all need to be considered when you choose or design a new perfume cap.