Bill Sauder talks about examining relics from the Titanic, in this clip from a NatGeo special. The perfumes he is talking about belonged to Adolphe Saalfeld, who was bringing samples to the United States in hopes he could market them here. Saalfeld survived the disaster and died in 1926. You can see the perfume case in an exhibit of Titanic relics. -via reddit
Titanic is both a grave and a marine archaeological site. It should be conserved, recorded, and explored with care. Titanic Inc. is a business, and it exhibits objects taken from the wreck for profit with little or no care for their context or long-term preservation.
The reasons for its sole authority over the wreckage are tenuous, and the company's primary goals (to recover "desirable objects" and generate as much media attention as possible) remain decidedly non-archaeological. The US Government recently issued an injunction to prevent the company from cutting into the ship to retrieve a supposed 'diamond shipment'.
We can but hope the Supreme Court and UNESCO (which recently awarded Titanic special status) can work together to ensure a future for the wreck that is free of commercial exploitation.