Glass Perfume Vial Shaped Like a Camel 🐪

Today’s camel is a perfume vial shaped to resemble a camel. In order to display and hold the scented oils and perfumes, artists crafted and molded bottles of all shapes and designs. Perfume bottles frequently were designed as flowers, birds and animals. This perfume bottle shows a dromedary camel.

You can see the stopper and the dauber. The dauber is the long stick-like thing at the end of the stopper that dips into the perfume. A dauber is usually made of glass and is attached to the underneath side of a perfume bottle stopper to be used as a dipper. One would lightly touch the dauber to your pulse points to apply the perfume.

We know this perfume bottle shows a dromedary camel since it only has one hump. A real camel’s hump actually stores fat. The camel uses the fat as nourishment when food is scarce. When a camel is unable to access food for a long period of time, its body is able to metabolize the fat in its hump for nutrition. If a camel uses the fat inside its hump, the hump will become limp and droop down. But as soon as the camel is able to refuel, the hump will sit upright again.

The camel’s hump also helps the animal regulate its body temperature. During the day when the temperature is extremely high, camels are able to minimize heat insulation throughout the rest of their body by concentrating the fatty tissue in the hump on their back. Their body temperature rises during the day but then at night when the temperature drops drastically, the extra heat dissipates through the rest of the camel’s body. This makes it possible for the camel’s body temperature to not get too low when the temperature is cooler.

I like how proudly this camel holds up its head. He seems to be saying, 'Here I am. I am having a great day. Hope you are too.'