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Great Alternatives to Discontinued Perfumes

scentWhat 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:

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?

test_tubeIn 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.

Which is the technique behind a perfume?

There are hundreds of ingredients in a perfume but basically they can be grouped in four groups:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Blenders: They help mixing the different ingredients of the perfume within each other.
  4. 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, enviromental 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 complexityof 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!

Update: Did you know we came across a manual that will teach you how to make perfumes and even how to sell them online? You can start your own business while creating you own unique perfumes. Or if you prefer, you can sell already manufactured perfumes.

If you want to take a look click here.

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Discontinued perfumes sometimes are not easy to find

lavander_oilSome times, even if we try as hard as we can, it’s just impossible to find some discontinued perfumes. They just don’t sell them anymore and you can’t find them in shops nor stores or online.

Well, it’s time to choose a new perfume but there’s a way you can do it while keeping the essence of the discontinued perfumes with you.

Perfumes are made basically with water, alcohol, flagranced oils and some chemical compounds such as aroma, fixatives and solvents. Since mid 1800 these oils can be chemically synthesized. The aroma is exactly like the natural one but with a much lower cost of production and his availability does not depend  from natural events.

Thanks to the Internet you can now have a list of the ingredients of the most common perfumes, even the discontinued perfumes. All you have to do is find which fragranced oil is in the ingredients of the perfume. Here are the most common types of oils for perfumes:

And many more…

Once you know which oil is content in your discontinued perfume, try perfumes with the same fragranced oils! It’s always fun and enjoyable trying new perfumes. Surely you’ll find a perfume that will make you remember your discontinued fragrance and the sadness for not finding it will soon go away.

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