Question:
I may be out of my mind, but I'm looking to depart with my Creed Imperial. However, since the bottle is all gold...how does one tell how much remains? I easily have more than half of the bottle, but there's no way to know for sure!
Do I have to strip the gold off? This doesn't seem reasonable. Any suggestions?
TNMA

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Can you weigh it? Full bottle weight minus your bottle weight = how much is used
Just a suggestion.

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Use an intense light from behind the bottle in a darkened room. A very powerful flashlight might work or, if you have a friendly dentist, ask if you can have him/her or an assistant use his composite curing light wand similarly in a darkened operatory room. It will only take a second to do. Then, estimate the position and the volume that should be visible through the bottle that is left from what would have normally filled it. That should put you right in the ball park for % fill left/

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I also second the weighing. Weight a full creed, and subtract the weight to get the ml used. Gold leaf ways nothing, probaly a gram at most on the whole bottle. Their is probaly more difference in bottle shape between other bottles of creed then the difference caused by the gold leaf.

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Excellent suggestions...but how and where would I weigh a full bottle?! Can you imagine me going to the Creed counter and asking!
TNMA

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I think the weight of the bottle is listed on its label, isn't it? H'm, I'll have to check.

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Problems with these ideas:

How will a light shine through gold?

To do it by weight you need a full bottle, an empty bottle and your bottle. You need to weigh it full, then you need to weigh an empty bottle to know how much mass the bottle takes up and then you subtract that from the weight of the full bottle. Then you weigh your bottle and subtract the weight of the empty bottle. Then you can compare the weight of the full one to yours and turn it into a percentage. If you don't subtract the empty bottle weight your percentage will be meaningless.

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Originally Posted by ifconfig I think the weight of the bottle is listed on its label, isn't it? H'm, I'll have to check. The weight of the juice, probably, but I doubt the weight of the bottle (or bottle + juice) would be listed. [edit - more likely the volume rather than the weight of the juice]

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Originally Posted by GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR Problems with these ideas:

How will a light shine through gold?
Almost all bottles, even the most difficult to see through bottles I've found a good bright light will shine through them. The only one I've seen that this has not worked on is the bottle of Yang which has a particularly thick coating of a rubber type material. Anyway, I've never seen the Creed bottle in question but if it is glass with a gold covering, the gold covering I would expect is thin enough that light will shine though.

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As I look at my collection, this same problem exists for those who want to sell Himalaya and SMW as well. Very inconvenient!
TNMA