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Sizes and necks, and the shipping limit

By Dwight Davis, Founder

Updated

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A narrow size range, and that is good news for the shipping exception.

The range

Seven to 120 mL across 63 containers. That is a fragrance range: a sample, a travel size, a standard bottle and a large one. Nothing on this shelf is bulk, and nothing needs to be.

Every size clears the inner limits comfortably

The limited quantity inner packaging limit is 0.5 L for Packing Group I and 1.0 L for Packing Group II. A 120 mL bottle is well under either, so the constraint that bites is the 30 kg gross package weight rather than the bottle size.

Which makes the case the thing to watch

Glass is heavy, and a case of 120 mL bottles with a strong outer packaging approaches 30 kg faster than a case of 30 mL ones. Case quantity is therefore a shipping decision as well as a commercial one.

The sample size earns its keep here

Fragrance is bought after trying, more than almost any other category, and the bottom of this range supports that. The label content is modest compared with a drug or a food product, so a small panel is workable.

Necks, and the one to build on

20-400 at 31 containers is the dominant finish, with 24-400 at 8 and 38-400 at 5. Standardizing a range on one finish buys one sprayer in volume, and on this shelf that decision interacts with the sprayer availability.

So choose the pair, then the sizes

Bottle finish and fitment together, then the sizes in that finish. Doing it the other way round produces a range that needs two or three different sprayers for no benefit anyone can see.

Cost the bottle as a bottle

Filling, labeling, the sprayer and the outer packaging are close to flat per unit, so a 10 mL sample carries far more of each per milliliter than a 100 mL bottle. Decide what each format has to earn.

References

49 CFR 173.150, Exceptions for Class 3 (flammable and combustible liquids). Limited quantities are excepted from labeling unless offered by aircraft, and from specification packaging when in combination packagings, with inner packagings not over 0.5 L for Packing Group I, 1.0 L for Packing Group II and 5.0 L for Packing Group III in a strong outer packaging, and no package exceeding 30 kg gross. The exception applies only where this section is referenced for the material in the 172.101 table. law.cornell.edu
Written from federal regulation and from measured catalog data, not from a perfumer’s bench. Whether a formula is Packing Group I, II or III follows from its flash point, and whether the limited quantity exception is available depends on the 172.101 entry for the material. Nothing here is a permit, a classification or a finding that a package complies.