I was also greatly privilaged to fly for AF in 1990/1 and the small bottles were nearly allways on the trays, sometimes they came into the cockpit. The best use for the little bottles of Lanson was to put a few in your overcoat pocket to keep it from flapping on cold walk-a-rounds.
The joys of lazy Sunday mornings when you checked your pockets!!!!!
It is never what people think you do, or what you actually do, it's what you get caught doing is the problem???