Silver keychain chic perfume bottle

On keys or on a bag strap: how the flacon hangs

Clipped to a set of keys, the charm lies flat and mostly shows its front. Hung from a strap it turns freely, because a short swivel sits between the clasp and the pendant, so the front and the back come round by turns. The clasp opens under the thumb, trigger style, and shuts onto a flat split ring that carries the keys. Three separate fittings, all in the same silver tone as the bottle.

Clear stones everywhere but five

The body of the bottle is a slightly domed rectangle with a raised double frame around the edge, filled with clear stones held in claw settings. A small dark rectangular panel breaks the pavé at the centre and stops the front reading as one block of sparkle. Around the neck sits a narrow collar of much smaller clear stones, and above that the cap widens out into a flat bar.

A clear-paved perfume bottle keyring, 6.50 cm from cap to base

That flat bar is where the five black stones sit: round, claw-set and evenly spaced across its width. Five black stones on the cap, clear pavé on everything else: a single band of contrast rather than the alternating pattern you might expect. Plenty of other shapes sit alongside it in what else dangles from a set of keys here.

Turn it over and the settings show through

The back of the bottle is not a plain plate. Every stone on the front has its own cup on the reverse, and those cups read as a regular quatrefoil grid running the full height of the flacon. The back of the cap, by contrast, is perfectly smooth and carries no stone at all. It is a detail you only meet once the charm has spun round on its swivel, which is an argument for the bag strap over the key fob.

Size, stones and fittings, checked one by one

Six and a half centimetres is modest for a bag charm, which is rather the point: the bottle adds a glint to a strap without swinging about or catching on a sleeve. If you are building the rest of the outfit around it, our scarves, brooches and hair clips sit on the next shelf along.