Several of us have wondered how a spray from one of the 5mL testers compares to a spray from the 36mL atomizers that products are sold in.

The small sprayer delivers approximately 80 sprays per 5mL,
which is 16 sprays per mL or
62.5mcL per spray - approximately 3 drops.

After measuring the number of sprays that the small sprayer dispenses from a 5mL fill, I refilled it by spraying into it from the full-size sprayer. It required approximately 48 sprays to fill up the large sprayer to the 5mL line.
That means the volume of each spray from the large atomizer is about 104.167mcL - approximately 5 drops.

Which means that a spray from the 5mL sprayer is approximately 60% the volume of a full-sized spray.

So 5 sprays from the 5mL tester = 3 regular-sized sprays.

Incidentally, in the course of testing this I refilled my 5mL sprayer of Glace, and complemented it with the NDA "Sensuality Type" essential oil synergy blend. Smells pretty nice.

Yay! Many of us have been wondering this, thanks for figuring it out!

Awesome dbot!

This should be stickied.

Good idea, Deja Vu! I stuck it!

(07-25-2011 8:33 PM)dbot Wrote:  Several of us have wondered how a spray from one of the 5mL testers compares to a spray from the 36mL atomizers that products are sold in.

The small sprayer delivers approximately 80 sprays per 5mL,
which is 16 sprays per mL or
62.5mcL per spray.

After measuring the number of sprays that the small sprayer dispenses from a 5mL fill, I refilled it by spraying into it from the full-size sprayer. It required approximately 48 sprays to fill up the large sprayer to the 5mL line.
That means the volume of each spray from the large atomizer is about 104.167mcL.

Which means that a spray from the 5mL sprayer is approximately 60% the volume of a full-sized spray.

So 5 sprays from the 5mL tester = 3 regular-sized sprays.

Great info, Dbot. Thanks for sharing!

dbot is our scientist! hehehe, great post!

Nice!

So in other words, when spraying in 5 spray doses from the tester, you get about 16 applications... Makes me feel less reluctant to give these a shot