Hello Han, et al. I was at the Bay (Cdn department store that originated as the Hudson Bay Company - fur traders and voyageurs - over 300 years ago) this weekend with my wife shopping for perfume. I decided to take an informal survey of the units used. All bottles were hard metric, 50 ml, 75 ml, 100 ml, 150 ml, etc. 75% of them had the conversion to US fluid ounces on the bottle "3.5 oz. fl." The remaining 25% were metric only. Estee Lauder was the only company, Canadian, American, European, etc. who used "oz. liq." and it made for a very crowded label. "3.5 fl.oz., oz. liq., 100 mL". The metric only labels were the most appealing to the eye, and I'm not saying that because I'd prefer to see metric units. As a point of interest there was only one bottle (I'm sorry, I forgot the company) who used "100 ml, 3.5 fl.oz.US" on the label. All other companies assumed that there is only variety of fluid ounce. What surprised me was that there were some Estee Lauder products that were labelled METRIC ONLY! They belonged to a collection of one particular fragrence, some bottles were labelled only in ml, others were "ml/fl. oz." and some were "fl. oz./oz. liq/ ml" So if you would like to use this information please do. Estee Lauder doesn't have a clue what it is doing! I cannot believe that all the other companies are risking the wrath of the Quebec language police. It is possible, however, that other companies use the 'metric-only' French label for sale in Quebec and across Europe, and have a second label for English Canada/United States. greg
