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⌈ Secret Post #5975 ⌋

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Late addition to yesterday's perfume thread.

[(Anonymous)]

I can’t believe I didn’t bother checking the GC yesterday, of all days. I collect fragrances as a hobby!

As people in that thread said, sampling is very worthwhile, and if you live in the US it can even be reasonably affordable. (I live in Canada and it's generally pricier here, but still worthwhile for getting to know what you like.) Everywhere I buy samples from is Canadian, and probably not the best option for you unless you’re also Canadian, but I’m pretty sure r/fragrance has a page with a list of legit places to buy samples.

You also have the option of buying "decants" if you want, which usually means 5–10ml spray vials of a particular fragrance. Bigger than a sample but much smaller than a full bottle. These are particularly great if you are lusting after a very expensive fragrance, because buying a decant will allow you to use the fragrance enough times to know whether you really love it, or whether it was just a temporary infatuation.

Fragrantica is a good website for looking up the notes and accords of different fragrances, so what you could do is use Fragrantica to help you choose which samples you want to buy. Don’t expect to know what a fragrance is going to be like from looking at the notes, though. There are so many different ways for notes to combine that it’s very hard to know until you actually smell it. But looking at the notes and the accords can at least help you get an overall sense of the general type of fragrances it is. I believe Basenotes is another website you can use for this purpose, though I don't know Basenotes very well.

Another tip is that, when it comes to buying full bottles, it is completely unnecessary to pay retail price most of the time (with the exception of the occasional brand that you can rarely find at a discount). Fragrancebuy, Perfumeonline, and Fragrancenet are all excellent “gray market” sellers. The former two are Canadian, but they’re so good that a lot of American’s also opt to use them over other US options. They’re very reputable, but they don’t have any brick and mortar stores, which is one of the ways that they keep their prices well below standard retail. Most people who do fragrance as a hobby buy from them. Aura Fragrance often seems to have the lowest prices of all, and I’ve seen people say they’re legit also, but they don’t ship to Canada so I can’t personally vouch for them.