Do Not Get Ripped Off With Designer Perfumes
It’s common to walk into a random fragrance shop and fall in love with a certain perfume and buy it. Also, you may be in search of a particular designer perfume you are looking for and search for the best prices in local perfume shops or online, but are worried about getting the best quality. Nowadays it’s very easy to get fooled by the many imposters and pay for a fake perfume. It’s important to learn to spot the difference.
In most fragrance shops it’s common to find the testers displayed for review, however, you cannot reach the boxes that you will eventually purchase if you should decide to do so. See if it’s possible for the clerk at the fragrance store to give you one of the boxes from the ones that they are selling, not the tester to review. There are legitimate manufacturers that make like perfumes as the original and have the rights to imitate their boxes, bottles, and scents. However they have to state on the box itself either designer imposter, or inspired by. It’s a great tool to check the honesty and knowledge of a fragrance store if they sell such perfumes after you’ve discovered such a statement. If the clerk denies it, then you may want to move on to the next perfume shop.
If you are looking for a designer perfume that you had in the past and want to buy again, and as long as the first time around it was 100% original, take the box and bottle with you. To check the validity of a perfume shop a simple comparison is enough. To find a fragrance shop that sells the original of your particular perfume at a great price it’s important to make sure you can trust them. Compare the boxes and their designs as well as the colors and material. If you find any differences than this fragrance shop sells fakes.
If possible ask the clerk at the fragrance shop to take the bottle out of the box. Keep in mind that it’s possible that the tester bottle and box may be original and what they sell you is different, so if possible check to see if the fragrance shop has a policy that you can check the box and perfume of the fragrance you want to buy. If the fragrance shop doesn’t allow you to open the box ask what their return policy is and open it after you’ve purchased it in front of them to review. If it turns out to be a fake, call them on it and ask for your money back and never return to this perfume store. When checking the perfume review the box and bottle for the spelling of the name, design of emblem, as well as the designer name.
Many impostors at fragrance shops may have the correct packaging, down to the spelling of the designers name; however, even though the bottles are original the color is different. If the perfume you are looking for is a certain color, say yellow, then the perfume at the fragrance shop shouldn’t be a different color. Make sure that you also check for dilution. If the Women’s perfume at the fragranceshop is lighter colored than the original you had it could have been diluted. This is very important to watch out for as sometimes chemicals that are dangerous are used.
As low prices in online fragrance shops are usually easier to find, many head to online auctions and websites. However, validity of an online fragranceshop is almost impossible to confirm. The only way to do it is by seeing what the rest of the customers of this seller have to say. As ebay.com and amazon.com are most commonly searched up for various purchases and are known to have low prices, they have great review options on the different sellers. If you chose to buy from someone on either of these websites check their history, reviews, and consistency. If you are buying from a different website where they don’t have reviews posted for the seller, you may want to do a simple search of the company or website. Usually if there is an unsatisfied customer, you can find a review online in a blog or one of the various rant websites that people discuss different companies and the quality of their product.
As a rule of thumb, when purchasing Women’s perfume from an online perfume shop make sure that you ask for extra pictures. They need to include the bottle and box with their details, and if they send you advertising pictures of the perfume, don’t buy it. Also, make sure that you ask for their return policy, as its good to know that if you didn’t get a good look in the pictures, you can return it if you find out its fake after you’ve received it. Lastly, if it’s really surprisingly cheap, it’s fake.
Avoid going to a hidden away little perfume shop to find high quality perfumes. Anything that looks shady probably is. Best bet is department stores, as they offer somewhat outdated original perfumes at great prices. Also, you may want to follow sales or possible coupons at a trusted fragrance shop. Buying a fake perfume is always a risk due to health hazards, however, they also lose their smell over time and may even smell bad after a while.
John Darly is the founder of Etepia Inc, an online fragrance store featuring an exceptional selection of rare fragrances, cosmetics, skincare, hair care, candles and aromatherapy products. Etepia.com offers more than 2,000 unique brands and more that 6,000 perfume for women and fragrances, all at a discount price.
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