A liquid atomizer adapted to be mounted upon the neck of a bottle, said atomizer having a reciprocating pump for spraying liquid fed from the bottle through a nozzle on the atomizer, said pump having a cylinder, a piston reciprocable therein, housing means to attach the pump to a bottle neck, means including a piston rod reciprocable through sleeve means at the top of the cylinder to drive the piston, liquid conducting means to convey a quantity of liquid from the bottle into and to retain it in the cylinder in a space therein above the piston in each cycle of operation of the pump, and means to conduct liquid from the space in the pump above the piston to the nozzle at each upward stroke of the piston, the means to transfer liquid from the pump to the nozzle comprising a longitudinal channel on the piston rod, the sleeve means having two sets of axially spaced ports therein and functioning as the fixed body of a reciprocable valve, a part secured to the piston rod functioning as the movable valve element of said reciprocable valve, the upper set of ports having radially outer ends adapted to communicate with the interior of the bottle, the lower set of ports having radially inner ends communicating with a lower part of the channel which conducts liquid to the nozzle, and comprising annular obturator means on said part functioning as a movable valve element to close the inner ends of the upper sets of ports and to open the lower set of ports when the piston is in its upper terminal position, to open both sets of ports when it is disposed in an intermediate position between the two sets of ports, and to cut off both sets of ports from communication with the channel supplying liquid to the nozzle when it lies beneath the lower set of ports.