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A Story About Discontinued Perfumes
So, my friend Jena a couple of days ago was sad and came to visit me with a bad news.
“How could they do this to me!? Since I was 14 years old I’ve always worn the same perfume: ‘Burberry week end’. I love it. I love its strong lasting fragrance. Furthermore, it was not the typical fashion-victim kind of perfume, I’ve never knew anyone that used to wear it. To make a long story short, yesterday I went to my regular perfume store to buy it and the girl at the counter said -Sorry, but Burberry week end has been discontinued- I couldn’t believe it, Burberry week-end is a discontinued perfume?? How could they do THAT?“
She was really sad and upset at the same time, so we called a friend of mine, Tyra, that works in a perfume shop out of town to see if she could find some bottles or if she knew some other store that could have some in stock. Because of my passion for perfumes and for discontinued perfumes in particular I happen to know lots of people that work in the perfume business. Jena was willing to buy as much Burberry week-end bottles as she could find.
We were very surprised by the answer of Tyra:
“HA! Burberry week-end is not discontinued. It is a must and it’s impossible that they discontinued it! You know what some shops owners do? Imagine they don’t want a brand in particular anymore, or they don’t come to an agreement with the brand or they don’t make too much profit with a perfume. Well, they tell their employees to tell the customers it is a discontinued perfume! Some times they do it also if they temporarily don’t have the perfume you want. Sorry, discontinued. Buy another one. Pretty smart, uh? You buy something else, you don’t go looking for discontinued perfumes in some other store…”. Thanks Tyra, you saved us!
What can we learn from this story? Never never ever give up on finding a perfume if you’re not 100% sure it’s been discontinued and you can’t find it anywhere.
I think you will find useful what happened to Jena and me.
By the way, two days later Jena bought a bottle of Burberry week-end in a shop two blocks away form where she “used to buy” perfumes every month. The guy at the counter laughed at us when we asked him if Burberry week-end was going to be discontinued…
You can also buy Burberry Weekend in our new perfumes store.
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Antique or Rare Perfumes Bottles Are A Beloved Collectable
The color and shape of antique or rare perfumes bottles are two of the main reasons collectors are attracted to them. The opaque whites, reds, blues, yellows, greens, oranges, purples and blacks are beautiful. In addition, bottles come with designs and embossing or even pictures. All these things including the geographic area where the bottle was made adds to the uniqueness and attractiveness of a piece and helps to determine its value.
There are many different bottles to select from and serious collectors look for that one of a kind piece. A room can be enhanced with the color and uniqueness of an antique, rare perfume bottle. The most popular place is in the bedroom or bathroom area because perfume is a toiletry and the antique piece still fits best in these rooms for display.
A collection of antique perfume bottles can also be passed on to the next generation of collectors in the family while, depending upon the pieces, increasing in value over time. A reproduction can be an inexpensive way to acquire a piece. There is however, more value to an original piece as the colors are brighter and it provides satisfaction to the collector in knowing that it is an original. An original piece has history. There is information that can be researched that tells a story about where it was made and the past that it was part of.
Another aspect of collecting antique perfume bottles that you might enjoy is meeting other interesting people who share your passion. These people can add to your knowledge of the various pieces as well as provide information on places to hunt for bottles that you might not have considered.
And as with all collectors of antiques, there is the thrill of the hunt for that “just right” piece, or finding a gem among rubble, that extremely rare perfume bottle you looked so much time for or just maybe getting a bargain on something worth a lot of money.
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How to Choose the Perfume that’s Best for You
One’s chemistry is an important factor if you’re uncertain on how to choose a perfume, as this is something that differs from person to person. Your levels of pH will determine how a particular perfume interacts with your skin’s natural scent and releases its fragrance. For this reason, it’s necessary that you try on as many perfumes as you can, and figure out which smells you enjoy the most. There are a couple of factors which you should consider:
- Do not try more than one perfume at a time. The scents will mix and you will not be able to make a proper judgment.
- When you apply the fragrance, do not rub it in your skin. Simply let it sit for about a quarter of an hour, allowing it to react with your skin. Some perfumes might take much more than 15 minutes to develop. This is because perfumes have 3 notes (top note, evaporates first, middle note, takes a bit longer and base, the true fragrance).
Although you may find in numerous publications that determined scents mean a certain aspect of your personality, don’t go with what you’re told. Use the perfume which smell you like the most as that will be the one to truly define you. You may want to ask your department store if they have some free perfume samples that you can take home with you. That way, you can try a few different ones on over the course of a few days to see which ones you truly like.
There are also a few tips on how to chose a perfume that you should keep in the back of your head:
- In the winter, you should pick a perfume with a stronger smell, as the low temperatures might reduce its power.
- Oily skins will not need as much perfume as dry skins.
- For maximum effect, apply a bit of the scent on your wrists.
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Great Alternatives to Discontinued Perfumes
What to do if all your efforts to find a discontinued perfumes fail? it’s time to find an alternative to your favorite fragrance.
Here are a few tips on how to wear a perfume even if it gets discontinued:
Have you ever heard about perfumes replica? Companies buy discontinued perfumes formulas and sell it with different names. Most of the time the name resembles the original name, so it’s not difficult to find out the perfume you’re looking for. Also, the price for a bottle is cheaper than the original. The producer say it’s because you pay just for the product, not for the brand, but in fact the scent lasts less than the branded perfumes. It’s a good way to wear a discontinued perfume anyway, consider it.
Some discontinued perfume still exist in the form of oil. In this case people say that oil actually last longer than the perfume. Also oils are cheaper than perfumes. Sometimes you will need to modify a little the fragrance to get exactly the discontinued perfume you want. You can do it mixing the basic oil scent with a smell-alike perfume or with another basic scent. The choice of oils is quite good, you can easily find:
- Chanel’s Allure for women
- Burberry for women
- Abercrombie & Fitch for men
- Calvin Klein’s Eternity for men
- Ralph Lauren’s Safari for men
- Victoria Secret’s Very Sexy for men
And an assortment of non-designer oils just great to fulfill your makeup vanities and make up your own perfume. If you can get nowhere near the discontinued perfume you want, mix up oils and fragrances and have a perfume that is really yours and that won’t be discontinued because YOU have the formula! Send us your creation, we’d love to know from you.
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Is It Possible To Reproduce Discontinued Perfumes? Perfume Replicas
In this “How to” article we will see the technique to “make” a perfume and if discontinued perfumes can be reproduced on the base of their formulas, that is make “perfume replicas”.
Which is the technique behind a perfume?
There are hundreds of ingredients in a perfume but basically they can be grouped in four groups:
- Primary scents: It is the main ingredient and the one that identifies the perfume. For example “lavender”. Lavender and rose can be mixed together for a more general “flowers” scent. Normally there’s no more than a few primary scents.
- Modifiers: They are added to the primary scent to modify it in some ways. For example, adding the modifier fruit ester to a floral primary, fruit flowers is obtained.
- Blenders: They help mixing the different ingredients of the perfume within each other.
- Fixatives: The “enforce” and support the primary scent. They’re usually resins or amber bases.
Sometimes to perfumes are added anti-oxidants to increase the shelf-life of the perfumes and colorants for marketing purposes.
Re-create discontinued perfumes is not an easy task, mainly because of the machinery involved in the process. An unknown sample can be identified with a machine called “gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)”. It is normally used for drug detection, explosive investigation, environmental analysis and so on. It is used by forensic and at airports for security reasons. It is known, though, that cosmetic firms use it to analyze the competition’s fragrances. It is relatively simple to know the formula of a perfume with GC-MS, but obviously cannot be done by anyone. Sometimes it’s harder due to the complexity of the chemical compounds but anyone trained to use GC-MS can come up with the formula in days.
As you can see it’s not really simple but indeed it is possible. If by any chance you know somebody with access to a GC-MS, let us know!
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