August's Best Beauty Buys

Porta-Perfume

We once used a tiny funnel to siphon our favorite scent from its bulky glass bottle into a travel-friendly atomizer. The project did not end well. (Have you ever lived with a carpet that smells intensely of wild rose?) A far better option: Travalo, a new contraption that lets you transfer your fragrance into a shatterproof, three-inch aluminum tube without spilling a drop. Remove the nozzle from your perfume bottle, slip the Travalo onto the tube (the atomizer has a tiny pressure-sealed hole on the bottom), pump it a few times, and presto: fragrance-to-go.

$16; us.travalo.com