Creating Your Own Perfume With A 1700 Percent Markup!: Third Edition - Paperbackby Philip Goutell (Author) We produced and sold 1,000 bottles of a fully commercial perfume under our own brand (trademark) and company name with an investment of just over $2,000. From this $2,000 we had enough leftover materials to get started on our next 1,000 bottles. We were not industry professionals, perfumers or chemists far from it but we discovered and used methods that you can use too. Our production "machinery" cost less than $50 and was