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Summary

 * Source
 * Terrorism Police UK @TerrorismPolice on Twitter, September 5, 2018
 * ''Salisbury Attack - Images released of the 'perfume' box and the bottle with an adapted nozzle.
 * ''Did you see this box between Sunday 4 March and Weds 27 June?
 * ''Contact police in confidence.
 * ☎️ 0800 789 321
 * 📩 Salisbury2018@met.police.uk

More sources

 * Police release photos of the fake perfume bottle of nerve agent they say Russian intelligence used in a brazen assassination attempt - Business Insider, September 5, 2018
 * Counterfeit designer perfume bottle filled with ‘significant’ amount of Novichok - AOL, September 5, 2018
 * Deadly nerve agent's path to Britain: Plane, train and perfume vial - The Straits Times, September 6, 2018

Did Sergei Skripal dump the perfume bottle?
Michael Antony provides the best explanation for how the Nina Ricci box ended up in the charity box.


 * The Alternative Skripal Narrative - Michael Antony, The Saker Blog, February 17, 2019
 * ''Let’s take the famous Nina Ricci perfume bottle, laced with novichok, which was found in a rubbish bin or charity bin by a homeless man and given weeks later to his woman friend, who tragically died after spraying it on her wrist. The police/MI6 narrative is that this perfume bottle was used to transport the novichok from Russia in the baggage of one of the alleged GRU men caught on CCTV in Salisbury. The novichok was then sprayed on the door handle of the Skripals’ house. The assassins then callously threw away the bottle (which they knew contained enough novichok to kill more people) in a dustbin or charity bin, demonstrating their indifference to loss of life as well as their indifference to leaving clues all over the place. There are problems with this narrative.
 * ''The homeless man claimed he had found the perfume bottle still in its box sealed in cellophane, proof it was not reopened after it had been laced with novichok and professionally repackaged. The bottle could not therefore have been used (as claimed) to spray the novichok on the doorknob, or the cellophane seal would have been broken. Assassins far from home don’t usually carry around cellophane-wrapping machines to repackage opened perfume bottles, especially when they are just going to chuck them in the bin. Nor would they take the risk, having fitted the separate spray nozzle onto the bottle and sprayed the doorknob, of disassembling it again to put it back in the box, knowing that a drop on their skin would kill them. And where would they perform this delicate operation? On the street? This poisoned perfume bottle was therefore never reopened, never used and it affected nobody until it ended up in the hands of the homeless man. So who or what was it intended for?
 * ''Ladies’ perfume bottles are normally intended for women. How many women are there in this story? Only one. The only possible explanation for the existence of this unopened, unused bottle of perfume laced with novichok is that it was a poisoned gift meant for Yulia Skripal. Why didn’t she open it? Because she had a spy father who took one look at it and said: “Don’t touch it!”
 * ''So here is the alternative narrative. MI6 had the bright idea of putting novichok in a Nina Ricci perfume bottle and sending it as a birthday present to Yulia Skripal at her father’s house. Her birthday was on 17th March, but the present was probably delivered on the 3rd, the day she arrived, so as to nip their escape plan in the bud. It was meant to seem like a present from her family or boyfriend. No doubt the parcel had Russian stamps on it, designed to frame the Russian state when the Skripals were found dead in their house with an open perfume bottle in Yulia’s hands. Unfortunately for MI6, Sergei took one look at this Nina Ricci perfume bottle and his spy instincts smelled danger. He refused to open it, but instead went for a long walk with it and put it in a rubbish bin or charity bin half-way across town. There it was found by the homeless man and given to his woman friend, a victim of MI6’s murderous callousness. Even after MI6 knew it had gone missing, they did not warn the public to beware of picking up a Nina Ricci perfume bottle because they didn’t want to give themselves away as the assassins.

The British police knew of the perfume bottle early on. The first theory of the poisoning presented to the public was that Yulia had brought the novichok from Russian in her luggage. There was even speculation that it was in a perfume bottle that Yulia had suddenly decided to open on the bench. (This did not sound plausible at the time as it would not explain how the novichok hit Sergei.)


 * Suitcase spy poisoning plot: nerve agent 'was planted in luggage of Sergei Skripal's daughter' - The Telegraph, March 15, 2018
 * ''The nerve agent that poisoned the Russian spy Sergei Skripal was planted in his daughter’s suitcase before she left Moscow, intelligence agencies now believe.
 * ''Senior sources have told the Telegraph they are convinced the Novichok nerve agent was hidden in the luggage of Yulia Skripal, the double agent’s 33-year-old daughter.
 * ''They are working on the theory that the toxin was impregnated in an item of clothing or cosmetics or else in a gift that was opened in his house in Salisbury, meaning Miss Skripal was deliberately targeted to get at her father.

We know the police were all over looking for the missing perfume bottle. They could not find it, because Sergei had already dumped it in the charity bin. Maybe Sergei even told them where he put it, but Charlie had found it before MI6 could recover it.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 01:12, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Was it in a bin?
Recall (1, 2) that Charlie Rowley was unable to recall where he found the bottle; he was "100% sure it was not in the park", but he was unable to confirm where he did find it. Further, as Robert Slane points out, there is no CCTV evidence linking Rowley or Petrov-Boshirov to such a bin; and that in the 4 month period it would be 'highly likely' that the bin is emptied. Highly professional services specifically targeting Yulia, or Sergey mitigating it by just by putting it in a bin (and doing nothing on top of that) are not particularly convincing theories either --Resup (talk) 07:48, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

''“The bin where the bottle was found was regularly emptied, so it seems inconceivable that it had been there since March,” the source said. “There is also some confusion about whether the bottle was sealed when it was found.“That is the reason why the CPS could not consider murder charges against the two Russian agents. The police cannot be completely sure the bottle of novichok that poisoned Dawn Sturgess was used against the Skripals.” The Guardian'' May 19, 2019 Also doubts raised after Amesbury affair due to length of time between the Rowley and Sturgess emergency and police producing the bottle --Diagonal (talk) 14:17, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

OPCW findings

 * OPCW Technical Secretariat report on Amesbury incident September 14, 2018
 * Due to the unknown storage conditions of the small bottle found in the house of Mr Rowley and the fact that the environmental samples analysed in relation to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Mr Nicholas Bailey were exposed to the environment and moisture, the impurity profiles of the samples available to the OPCW do not make it possible to draw conclusions as to whether the samples are from the same synthesis batch.