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I didn't worry about it; I had always re-gifted not only full bottle/full-size products I received from perfume companies, but samples, too. I did this happily! Well, there was the time Amouage sent me a beautiful little bottle of Gold Man. After I pried the bottle from my clenched fist, I gave Gold to a friend at work who said she liked it. I still laugh when I remember the day I took a drive in her truck and smelled Gold; she excitedly admitted she sprayed the mats in her car with Gold! ("That stuff's great...even hides hound-dog smell! Lasts for weeks!")
Thus, sample stream dry, I got into the bad habit (for me, harder to overcome than nightly cocktails) of paying for fragrance samples. This week I tallied up my perfume sample purchases for 2020 (a below-average year for buying them). When I added single samples, decants, boxed sample sets (some over $50) I was alarmed/ashamed by what I had spent: $400 (put another way: 75 perfume samples).
What prompted this current reckoning? Last week, my fir$t 2021 di$covery $et purcha$e (or ExpÃriences Olfactives, ugh!) arrived from Paris and not one of the 8 perfumes in the box was better than bland. ALL were scrubbers; they smelled "deficient," cheap. One scent I was excited to smell, described as reminiscent of "drinking a shot of icy absinth under the magnetic movements of the Northern lights" would have been better described as "My Virginia grandma's favorite mosquito repellent, applied with gusto on a hot August evening."
These eight perfumes: had great names and backstories, were composed by skilled perfumers (including Bertrand Duchaufour), were housed in tasteful packaging. The company webpage was beautifully designed. As I analyzed my dumb purchase, I realized none of that mattered to me. What gets this veteran of perfume worship to buy (someone who should know better) are lists of fragrance notes. We should never believe lists of fragrance notes! But as limette, orange bigarade, bergamot, black tea, cypress, artemisia, iris butter, papyrus, mastic, mimosa, chili, clove, vetiver, myrrh and the like are extolled...I swoon. I should've realized I swoon because I'm a gardener and cook as well as a perfume fanatic, and I love the real-life aromas of those flowers, fruits, leaves, spices, roots, trees! THOSE aromas are what I'm imagining when I make a decision to buy fragrance samples...what I get 85 percent of the time is a nondescript, budget-conscious, chemical stew.
For me, 2020 was the year of artless, shameless and synthetic-loaded perfumes offered at sky-high prices. Never have I smelled so many $250, $350, $450 perfumes that reminded me of $10 scented candles. Of the 75 perfume samples I bought, I reviewed (in a positive way) seven. One full-bottle purchase resulted from a sample sniff. Sixty-eight samples I bought were blah, been-there-smelled-that stuff that I only needed to dab on once. I wasted $359!
Resolution 2021? I won't buy any more perfume samples! Time to invest that money in something more worthwhile: plants, a donation to animal rescue, a vintage bottle of something I love...or food, liquor!
Kevin, does that mean you had bad experience with Maison Crivelli sample set? I was actually quite curious about the brand. One of my perfumer friends composed one of their fragrances and I wanted to get acquainted with the iris one too!
So I sample a little differently. I order samples when my excellent peer group here repeatedly reports on the awesomeness of a fragrance. There are certain small businesses I like to support by ordering samples. Now with all that said, probably less than 25 samples will float into my house any given year. I often end up loving samples that are kindly included when we do splits on this site. I have another tool I use to eliminate fragrances to sniff. If your perfume company comes up in my Facebook feed or Instagram outside of your brand page, which I have chosen to follow, I will never order your fragrances. I feel like if you are spending money on advertising, you may be less invested in the quality of your ingredients. Besides, if it is outstanding and I have missed it, my friends in scent here will mention it and probably more than once?
In 2020 and already starting / started in 2021, the online sniffalongs where one gets a pack of samples as part of the deal. These make me try the samples along with the event. I have since re-homed some of the sets which stretches out the cost.
At one time I was going crazy buying samples and decants, because I was so curious as to what certain perfumes smelled like, especially older ones. As my budget diminished, I pretty much stopped. I went to revisit some of the samples and decants I purchased in the past, only to find many had evaporated. So, yeah.
Absolutely this. My 1ml samples are with stoppers and I still have them. Of course one does not get as representative an experience as if one sprayed, but one can hang onto them for years. I thought all samples would last years and many have just evaporated
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Unless you have a constant supply of free samples, the regular price of perfumes can soon add up - especially if you wear it every day. Many fragrance fans have found a clever way around this. They purchase branded perfumes as wholesale perfume testers and save a whole lot of money. But how can you get hold of these? Are there any pitfalls that you should look out for? This is where you can find out!
We will start by comparing retail and wholesale prices of perfume and examining why they differ. To do this we need to look at the players in the supply chain of perfumes. At one end, there are the manufacturers who make the perfume. They sell their product to wholesalers (sometimes called distributors) who distribute them to retailers (bricks-and-mortar stores or online). Finally, retailers sell the goods to the final consumer - that's you.
Finally, the retailer sells it to you at the regular price that you are used to seeing online and in stores. Even if the retailer offers perfume supplies at the best possible prices it will never be as cheap as further back along the supply chain.
Having said this, some fragrance companies supply testers of popular designer brands in very fancy packaging that also have caps! However on the whole, they are more suited to perfume that you want to use yourself than a perfume that you are going to give as a gift.
Some stores stock wholesale perfume testers but by far the most convenient place to buy them is from a dedicated perfume website that has extensive tester ranges for her and similar tester ranges for him.
The gorgeous Sweet Like Candy by Ariane Grande is an Eau de Perfume for women that comes without a cap in a 3.4 ounce bottle. As you would expect from the name, this perfume is all about sweetness! Top notes include sweet candy, berries and vanilla and it is aimed at a young consumer.
Yeah absolutely! They have undergone the same quality check and have been produced in exactly the same way as regular retail perfumes. As long as you buy from a reputable source you will be getting authentic products at knock down prices.
Yes, some stores do sell testers but most simply use them for display purposes. The best place to buy perfume testers is from sites that are dedicated to selling perfumes. They will have established relationships with suppliers, supply authentic products and can offer the cheapest prices.
No, if you buy fragrances as a tester from a bona fide company or shop that has authentic bottles of perfume, they will not be weaker. These products are exactly the same as the perfume that you buy at retail - but it is a lot cheaper. The packaging and the bottle may look a little different but what's inside is exactly the same.
When I was a nascent scent slut, I started lurking the fragrance blogs, reading about the different lines, trying to understand the categories and terminologies and export designations, and eventually it dawned on me that a lot of people were buying samples of the fragrances, not the whole bottle. Oh. Well, okay, that makes total sense. But Where to get Perfume Samples?
This is also where IÂll violate the BloggerÂs Code of Ethics (hah, yeah, right!) and point out that my blogmate Patty is a Professional Scent Slut who sells fabulous niche stuff , including sample sets of the really cool non-export Shiseidos I reviewed recently. ThereÂs a link on the left side of our homepage or click here to go to Surrender to Chance. (And yeah, Flora, SL Tubereuse Criminelle should be illegal in the lower 48. A LOT of great stuff probably should be illegal. The DEAÂs going to show up any day and take away my Jicky parfum and my Bal a Versailles.)
You can buy samples from a number of online niche perfume stores like Aedes, Luckyscent, or Luscious Cargo for nominal amounts of money ($13 gets you 8 samples plus a couple of freebies from Luscious. Okay, once they sent me somebody elseÂs order, but they fixed it right away when I emailed them, and I got to keep the 8 mistakes, so I was happy.) Some of the niche perfumers also have their own sample programs.
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