Welcome to the Facticerie, recognized by Guinness World Records as the planet’s largest collection of oversized perfume bottles. This is the passion project of Sudhir Gupta and his wife Mercedes Acosta, who have assembled nearly 4,000 jumbo bottles, or “factices,” spanning more than 100 years of perfume history. Factices began to be produced in the late 19th century when perfume sales shifted from pharmacies to department stores. The attention-grabbing bottles could be anywhere from 12 inches (for a countertop) to over 24 inches (for a display window) tall and acted as de facto advertisements enticing customers to smell the scents their smaller bottles contained.

— The Facticerie is located in Hackensack. Read more in A Trip Inside the World’s Largest Collection of Jumbo Perfume Bottles at Allure; or see the Facticerie website.