Perfume releasing packages

Abstract

Article of manufactures comprising a packaged sealed product and an improved system to release a perfume without unsealing the product. The articles comprise an enclosure formed outside the packaged product which contains a perfume releasing material. The enclosure is saturated with a perfumed headspace and comprises means to release the perfumed headspace to the external environment and means to regenerate the headspace for the next use.

1 . An article of manufacture comprising: 
 a) a product;    b) a package separating said product from the external environment;    c) an enclosure formed outside said package and between said package and a second surface, said enclosure comprising a headspace and a perfume releasing material which releases a perfume in said headspace;    d) said article comprising means for releasing said perfume in said headspace to the external environment and means to regenerate said headspace collecting air from the external environment.    
   
   
       2 . An article of manufacture comprising 
 a) a product;    b) a package separating said product from the external environment;    c) said package comprising a base;    d) said base comprising a concave portion;    e) said concave portion comprising a perfume releasing material;    f) said concave portion being able to cooperate with a second surface to form an enclosure.    
   
   
       3 . An article according to  claim 1 , wherein said second surface is the internal surface of a cap or of a lid over a sealed container.  
   
   
       4 . An article according to  claim 1  wherein said second surface is the internal surface of a secondary package completely encasing said package.  
   
   
       5 . An article according to  claim 4  wherein said secondary package is a box.  
   
   
       6 . An article according to  claim 4  wherein said secondary package is a thermoformed blister pack.  
   
   
       7 . An article according to  claim 4  wherein said secondary package comprises at least one small hole or aperture.  
   
   
       8 . An article according to  claim 2 , wherein said package base comprises a series of coplanar points forming a closed perimeter.  
   
   
       9 . An article according to  claim 1  wherein the perfume releasing material comprises a perfume and at least one polymer.  
   
   
       10 . An article according to  claim 2  wherein the perfume releasing material comprises a perfume and at least one polymer.  
   
   
       11 . An article according to  claim 9  wherein the perfume releasing material comprises at least one plasticizer.  
   
   
       12 . An article according to  claim 10  wherein the perfume releasing material comprises at least one plasticizer.