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.

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, 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!

The same occurs with people. I’m sure you remember the perfume worn by your first high school date, the smell of your grandpa after shave, the scent worn by your mother in important events. Unfortunately some of this perfumes are no longer available, they are discontinued perfumes.

Even if you’re not a “good ol’ days were better” person surely you wouldn’t mind to recall back the days spent with your loved ones, the first dates with your actual partner or the time spent with someone who passed by. Wearing their favorite perfumes or just smell it is one of the strongest way to remember them. Chances are the perfumes they used to wear is a discontinued perfume. How would you like to have a bottle of that discontinued perfume? There are some ways to get your hands on one bottle:

Ever thought about eBay? They sell discontinued fragrances for an affordable price. Look for your favorite one, you may surprise yourself to see somebody has just what you’re looking for.

What about you favorite perfumes shop? Have you asked them if they still have discontinued perfumes? Maybe they have in stock a perfume they no longer keep on the shelves and they can even sell it for a cheap price, since their chances to sell it are very little.

Some perfumes gain value with the time, though. Just like a bottle of good wine, time adds value to it and the price could be not that cheap.

Discontinued perfumes make great presents too. Surprise your husband with a bottle of the scent he used to wear when he was younger, your wife with that scent she likes to smell on your skin or a loved person with the perfume she used to wear and no longer can because is now in the list of discontinued perfumes.

Yes, this is the real value of discontinued perfumes. The value to make you remember good time spent with friends and family. Open the bottle and smell the perfume,  joyful sensations of friendship and love will come to your mind.

Don’t you hate when the perfect perfume for you suddenly goes in the list of discontinued perfumes?

This is what this site is for. You’ll find tips on where to find discontinued perfumes, offers to buy perfumes, best priced perfumes, how to recreate that special perfume for you and many more

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