Perfume: "The Devil wears Perfume", "Carrie", "Fleur", "Infinity"

[p1an0player]

There is a shop called "Perfume Addiction" on Oxford Street, just opposite the Plaza shopping centre.

There was a bloke at the entrance with a microphone selling perfume with the names I put in the title. A whole bag of different perfumes for £20.

Apparently "The Devil wears Perfume" is a new perfume launch normally retailing at £40 per bottle.

I haven't tried this perfume, nor have I heard of any of the brands.

Does anyone wish to comment?

[unimaginative_one]

Looking at Ebay they look like cheap perfumes cashing in on celebrity. The Devil Wears Perfume is from The Devil Wears Prada and Carrie is some Sex and the City spin off. Not selling for much on Ebay and probably coming to a Poundshop near you soon!

Thanks for the tip off though. It could have been the bargain of the year!

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[p1an0player]

Looking at Ebay they look like cheap perfumes cashing in on celebrity. The Devil Wears Perfume is from The Devil Wears Prada and Carrie is some Sex and the City spin off.
Thanks for this. What about Fleur perfume? the man said that every woman knows about it - has anyone heard of it?

[avstar]

I'm a woman - well I was last time I checked;) and I've never heard of Fleur perfume.

[xadoc]

There was a stall selling this same selection at the Festive gift fair at the NEC last week...

Lots of people were seen carrying the branded bags around! I wasn't convinced.

I think the old adage 'if it looks too good to be true it probably is' is as true today as ever... 4/5 bottles of quality perfume for £20? I don't think so...

[xtina87]

I bought some in Liverpool today smelt the devil wears perfume one and it wasnt too bad, then he put 5 more in the bag all for £20, the rest aint so nice lol,
never heard of any of the makes, but the man insisted the devil wears perfume one is out next month, and another one if from a top name ( cant remember what one)
all the way home i was thinking, why has he given me 6 perfumes for £20 lol must be something wrong?? even checked they wernt empty boxes.
But when i smelt them i new why........

[kezmayuk]

I just been to waterlooville market and got 6 for £20.00
The Devil Wears Perfume
Curage - Street Racing
Strike - For Men Sport
Elegance for Women
Pleasure
Posh - Victoria Beckham

I think this is a bargin, but i could be wrong?

[Skint_Catt]

Fleur is probably a spin off from (Estee Lauders?) Flair. One of my Mums old faves which they don't make anymore. They're no doubt fake, watered down and down right awful. The testers (if he has them) will probably be decent stuff, but the sold lot won't be!

[p1an0player]

What about Posh by Beckham?

Sounds feasible ?!

[bringmeshoes]

If beckham had a new perfume out we would all know about it by now as there would have been adverts everywhere

[**dancingbutterfly**]

i see these stalls at my local sunday market now and again and i always avoid them! i wouldnt buy from them! i heard (yes it may not be true!! hehe) that they are awful smelling, watered down, carp! (some have even been found to contain urine!!) theyre not the real deal theyre just (like the other responder said) trying to cash in on celebs names. they dont endorse this stuff and wouldnt want too. id stay clear myself!! id rather pay full price and have a quality perfume that lasts. btw i think the 'fleur' one may be a rip off of Flower by Kenzo. i see them try to copy this one alot. its a beautiful perfume and im sure the knock off version wouldnt be the same!!

[x-Princess-Vikki-x]

There were stalls at the NEC Clothes Show selling these. They all had pictures of celebs such as Victoria Beckham, Britney and Beyonce. But none were real brands.

Amazing how many people bought them though.

[loveabargainhateascam]

Thought I'd share my story:

I was walking past this shop on oxford street today and saw the same man with the microphone on.. big crowd of people all waving £20 cash at him; big bright lights - who wouldn't stop to have a look.

The man was claiming that due to the launch of the new perfume "carrie" they were doing a special promotion - giving away £195 worth of branded perfume away for £20! AND they only had 27 bags left - once they were gone, that was it. I ran over the road to get some cash out, came back to find there were still only 27 left (even though they'd sold another 2 while I was stood there... I should've known better eh!)

The man was throwing phrases such as "sex and the city, sarah jessica parker, beyonce, lewis hamilton, addict, real thing, branded, special promotion to advertise the store" etc etc. The posters had what looked like the sex and the city branding of pink on black in the same font and a picture of NYC - as on all the SATC branding.

I had a quick sniff of the display perfumes, they didn't smell that great but hey, I was gonna give them away as pressies - and I'm not one to turn down a bargain! Also, there was quite some excitment around and urgency created by the man on the mic so I made my purchase.

Crossed the road and as I was congratulating myself on my superb purchase, I thought, hey, isn't SJP's perfume called "lovely"??? On closer inspection, I realised that all of these were FAKES FAKES FAKES. Talk about ripping off and taking advantage of the power of association! Illegal much. I do believe there is an Intellectual Property infringement here somewhere....

I walked straight back and asked for my money back. The man on the mic said "eric, can you please deal with this lady here... everyone, this lady here's over spent, she needs her fare home.." (a likely story eh?).

The manager (I assume) took me right to the back of the shop and asked me why I'd bought it in the first place and I said that it was falsely advertised - his response was "so you bought it because it was false advertising?" (smirk on his face) me: no, that's why i brought it back. He walked to a back room, to fish out a rather dodgy £20 note... don't think it was unfair of me to hold it to the light :confused: He then offered to give it to me in ones.. I didn't say no.

I looked around the shop to find that ALL the merchandise was fake. rip offs of popular brand names.

In the local market, yes. On the street corner on a table, yes. But you just don't expect it in a prime property location such as Oxford Street!

So watch out!

[sarah84]

Theres one of these stalls in Birmingham's pallasades centre too, complete with cheesy voiced smarmy salesman :rolleyes: . I've seen lots of people with the Carrie and Devil Wears Perfume bags but they must be daft if they think they are designer not-yet-in-the shops products. Touting 5 perfumes for £20 should ring enough alarm bells but the names of the perfumes are so tacky!
If people like the perfumes and want a few bargain bottles of cheap perfume then great, but its unfair to push them as something they're not, especially all the names/brands they are associating the perfume with.

[97_3728]

So, I thought I would also give my story:

1. Saturday mid-day:
I saw the big crowd as many others have and thought, "what the hell" and bought the five perfumes for £20. [Carrie / Beyonce Dream / Lewis Hamilton Courage / etc.] (not paying much attention I later realised)

2.
Get home, google the products to find how much I have saved. . . oh, wait. . . non of these products are premium, but more likely the "pound" perfumes as someone stated earlier. (ended up reading this forum thread)

3.
Decide that I will return the products tomorrow and get my money back, but am still p****d off and want to let other people know and get the business shut down (obviously quite a high aim)

4.
Figure that going to the Police would not get much action done, so consider alternatives. One of the products was sold as Lewis Hamilton’s product, so google his legal representative and shoot an e-mail off to her. (Obviously a little ambitious, but see where it gets us).

5.
Return the product. Get my money back after some argument and much aggrevation. Get verbally abused... leave. Decide to take pictures with my DSLR (happened to have it on me). Take pictures of four members of staff and the different posters they are advertising with the products.

6.
Make it my business to warn a couple dozen people looking to purchase the perfumes by speaking individually and shouting "FAKE."

7.
Get home, look at my pictures and see that the advertising for the Carrie ‘Sex and the City’ actually says "Sexy for the City.".... Ponder how naive I was for a while.... E-mail the London Paper to see if they wish to print an article on the false representation of the products.

8.
Finish by publishing this, with little hope of anything ever happening about it.. ah well... at least I tried I guess.

[biggurs]

hi
Was in Pallasades shopping centre Birmingham today (Sun dec21) and saw promotional stand with 'the devil wears perfume' and another poster with something like 'SEXy perfume for THE CITY' with the words 'sex', 'in', 'the' and 'city' emphasised in large pink lettering.
When one looks at that poster, what you see is 'sex and the city' and not what it actually said which was 'sexy perfume for the city' or something like that. The devil wears perfume is a rip off of 'the devil wears prada'. The picture on the bag was similar to the picture of the high heeled shoe used in 'the devil wears prada' poster. The staff had badges with 'perfume addict' written but the word 'perfume' was written using the same style and colouring as the word 'virgin' used by the virgin corporation.

Anyway, in a moment of madness i bought the 'devil wears perfume' for £20 and 4 other bottles of various mens and ladies perfume thrown in for 'free'. I though i had a bargain but as i walked away to continue my shopping i decided to google 'the devil wears perfume' and this site came up along with a few others with nothing but crap reviews. It then dawned upon me that i had been had.... yes me.... its usually the other way round!!!!!
I realised then that all their posters and wordings were all designed in such a way to trick the visual sensory system into believing it was 'the devil wears prada' and 'sex and the city' (or is it sex IN the city??? i'm not sure lol).

I marched upto the stall and explained to them that i was not happy with my purchase and wanted a refund. They assumed i had been to the Perfume shop who told me it was all crap stuff but when i told him i had googled them he seemed a bit surprised and wanted to know which site it was so i showed him on my phone. They swiftly gave back my £20 and on seeing this suddenly the crowd of prospective buyers suddenly disappeared into thin air!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another thing was the guy kept saying he 'only had 27 left' but about 30 mins later when i returned i saw at least 3-4 people buying the perfumes and the salesman again shouted out on his microphone 'only 27 left'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DO NOT BUY

[p1an0player]

i told him i had googled them he seemed a bit surprised and wanted to know which site it was so i showed him on my phone.
lets look forward to someone replying to this thread and saying what quality perfumes they are, and that this thread was just started by jealous rivals/disgruntled employees (a la Lapland)

[rockz1]

Just bought the perfume for my sister, they've opened a new shop in Whitechapel, London. I thought i'd let everyone know that they've corrected their mistake by renaming their 'carrie' perfume to 'lovely'.
P.S can anyone contact trading standards i'm sure what their doing is illegal.

[kevandkeira]

Hi, thought i'd let you all know that this stall has now reach southampton.
My partner brought this as a cristmas present for me, but showed me early as he thought it was to good to be true & quite clearly it is.
Has anyone else checked out their website....it shows more fake perfumes & when you click on the contact us it doesn't work! surprised, im not.
In his bundle he brought the devil wears perfume (decieving as it has the picture from devil wears prada), curage for men (big picture of lewis hamilton on the front), posh (automatically think beckham), elegance, strike & pleasure (haven't even bothered smeling the last 3).
DO NOT BUY THESE PERFUMES, if an offer seems to good to be true then it more than likely is.

[alexl]

I am amazed any of you thought to buy these without checking reviews to see if they were any good, let alone if they were geniune!! there is a reason they are being sold in the street people!!

try websites such as www.basenotes.net to see which are good perfumes/eau de toilettes and which arent because no one has enough time to go around boots and sniff every scent. Don't let the hysteria of the crowd fall you into making hasty purchases

[stdjmax]

At 29 Dec passing from the oxford street i saw the men advertising the super deal and big crowd of people was around... and at first i had ignored him because i did not need any perfumes!!

After 1/2 hour i passed from the same point, the guy was still there and the mass of crowd remained the same... That was crucial point for me to deceive me after all and unfortunately to buy a bag.

I was decent happy until i get home and discover this forum ... btw i found another website which a chine girl was too happy with deal ... So be in half, I open one box (with Hamilton) and the smell arising from the box was awful! Reading from the forum i discovered the refund was possible so I did.

And, the next day going there still the same man with the same stories (super deal, store is closing down last day of selling and you can see hundred of box in store)

Therefore, I wait for him to finish and i get inside. Apparently a man (Pakistan) came at once in front of me and....
"The perfumes are smelling awful and would like my refund back, i said".
He said no "problem if the boxing of the perfumes is on good condition".
Meanwhile he tried to convince me the "Carrie" perfume is OK as he was checking the boxes.

So do not destroy the "boxing" if you would like you money back!

[clekka]

Hi, I was checking to see how much these products do retail at as I did purchase some in Burton upon Trent yesterday, 11th April. When I ran along this forum.
I do agree that yes the products are not genuine, but I was not taken in by it as the bags do say 'The Devil Wears Perfume'. I do have to also admit the sales lady did not try to tell me that they were either.
As I cannot wear many perfumes I tried two of the products and wondered around town for a couple of hours. I did not have a reaction to them and returned. There were two male fragrances and three female ones, plus a £6 colour institute (genuine) makeup set. So taking the £6 off the £20 the fragrances worked out at just under £3 each.
And also looking at the boxes they all stated that they are natural fragrances.
So I feel like I had a bargain anyway. I now have a perfume selection that has not cost a lot of money that I can wear. :rotfl:

[missuspisme]

Obviously these stalls are selling "fake" perfumes but I have bought some in Gloucester today and the lady seller did not try to cash in on any celebrity and was not pushy..I like one of the scents for myself, my husband likes one of the male perfumes and my teenage daughter has taken another one . The devil wears perfume will be given to her sister for a birthday pressie by her, along with the free make up set. I think that if you can afford to buy the proper brands then go ahead but I am happy with my purchase. Not every seller is out to deliberately fool people, just selling market stuff at market prices. I paid £20 for the lot and still have a mens perfume to give as a gift.

[VanyaHargreeves]

I have these. All of them. Don't buy them, they're not very nice.

I got them at the Clothes Show Live 2008.

[floozy]

they have now moved to Cramlington in the North East!!

[hieveryone]

This scam is on 'The Real Hustle' ALL the time, it's a classic.

[thesim]

Saw this in Oxford st yesterday, I have to say I was slightly confused why the devil wears perfume thing was coming out so late after the film. The guy kept going on about it being free and I was taken...until he said you pay £30 and get these free. hah I clocked its not real and turned around and walked off!!

[ultimate]

I didnt purchase the perfumes, but i was there when my sister did, at the Sunderland air show yesturday, she got the same perfumes in a bag for £20.

Clearly they are not what they are claiming to be, however they do actually smell nice, in my opinion! Those who say they dont, do they really smell awful? Or are you just been synical because you've been "had"!

At the end of the day my sister has got 6 bottles of perfume that she can give away as birthday/christmas pressies, they smell nice and they were a bargain, considering the money she will save on buying presents.

Dont know about anybody else but she also got an ipen (basically a radio pen with headphones) thrown in, which is good for what it is!

Obviously they shouldnt be making these claims, but what do you expect really, why cant people just take it for what it is!

[underlay_guru]

Hi,

So you have bought 6 bottles of perfume/aftershave for £20. Is it a bargain if you did not need it in the first place? Short answer: no. Would you have gone into a shop and bought 6 bottles of perfume in one hit? No.

I too saw their stands at the Sunderland Air Show at the weekend but it appeared they were trading as 'DESIGNER PERFUMES DIRECT' and it was amazing the amount of gullible idiots that were sucked into buying repackaged, cheap rubbish for £20. Believe me, these are cheap rotten fragrances, and making an awful lot of money from them...When they say 'Not available in shops' there is a reason for that: because the shops will not sell sh*t. They are illegally using famous faces to promote their products too: It is amazing how powerful a fancy box/bottle/celebrity endorsement can sell a bottle of rotten fragranced cats p*ss very easily!

The 'hook' is the promise of free products, and throwing out free samples like confetti. This encourages people to stay and watch the rest of the pitch, waiting for more freebies. They eventually convince buyers that they are to happy to pay £20 for a carrier bag of 'freebies'. What fools they are.

I have seen seen similar operations featured The Real Hustle (although I am not saying that this perfume company is a scam)....I can't believe the amount of people stupid enough to buy them! Expect to see their perfumes at your nearest pound shop very soon!

[underlay_guru]

Obviously they shouldnt be making these claims, but what do you expect really, why cant people just take it for what it is!

So you are happy that you have been told the rrp is £40 a bottle and is endorsed by major celebrities, when in reality there are no celebrity endorsements at all?

Check this real hustle sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEDr14_q-wg


IMO "A fool and his money......"

[donnac2558]

So you smelt the tester but does the bottles you bought actually smell the same?

That one is well known, the tester smells good and lasts but the stuff in the bottles are very weak and you have no idea what goes in these factories. Toxtic perhaps.

[underlay_guru]

So you smelt the tester but does the bottles you bought actually smell the same?

That one is well known, the tester smells good and lasts but the stuff in the bottles are very weak and you have no idea what goes in these factories. Toxtic perhaps.

Hit the nail right on the head there. The testers are a more concentrated mix, meaning the smell is more pungent.

Toxic? There is absolutely no proof that these particular brands of fragrances are toxic, so couldn't comment...

Fragrance manufacturing plants in mass production places such as China sometimes substitute quality ingredients for gruesome alternatives. You only get what you pay for. I would rather go out and buy the real deal.

[jakeuk]

i wish i had read these sites about the 'Devil Wears Prada' so called 'new promotion' perfume before i went to my local market today. i've just come back with a bag full of about 4 perfumes and 2 aftershaves, thinking i had got a real bargain for £20. the guy selling it specifically said that they wern't fake, and when i asked why he's seling them so cheap he said it was a 'special promotion'. the Sarah Jessica Parker one he's selling is called Lovely, which, i think, is what her perfume is actually called but the picture on the box is not her, but a woman that looks slightly like her. and one of the aftershaves he said was a new one by Diesel. fair enough he has conned me, but to be honest why does he have to lie and say they are genuine when in fact they are fakes. he even said keep hold of the carrier bag which has a picture of the big red shoe as on the film Devil Wears Prada, as he said it would be worth a fortune on Ebay!. i should have come home and googled it before i bought it, but he made out that they were running out. god i'm an idiot. but i'm not alone, there were loads of people buying it. surely it's against the Trades Descriptions Act. and the guy in the photo is the same guy who sold it to me. i'm in Morecambe, so he must get about!

[jakeuk]

it's like the old saying, "if it seems too good to be true, it probably is".

[underlay_guru]

why does he have to lie and say they are genuine when in fact they are fakes.

....Because they are NOT actually selling fakes, they are cheap alternatives. Their suggestive pitch cleverly makes you mentally associate the products with famous faces, The sellers avoid directly mentioning themselves, but simply plant the seed in your head that they are selling the real deal....there is no false selling involved, just extremely effective sales technique.

Although there is no proof that this particular company practices this, stooges in the crowd usually make purchases, which encourages the extremely gullible few to buy (ever heard of the Pied Piper of Hamlyn?;)). When there is a nice trickle of buyers, the "limited stock" line creates a stampede of greedy buyers. By simply telling people that your stock is almost gone, it is an almost guarantee of persuading even the slightly gullible buyers to part with their money...

he even said keep hold of the carrier bag which has a picture of the big red shoe as on the film Devil Wears Prada, as he said it would be worth a fortune on Ebay!

"Could be worth a fortune, but probably not" If they're worth a fortune, why is he not selling them on eBay themselves?
Be wise...buy some by all means...it's your money after all, but think about what you are buying!

[london87]

Hi,

So you have bought 6 bottles of perfume/aftershave for £20. Is it a bargain if you did not need it in the first place? Short answer: no. Would you have gone into a shop and bought 6 bottles of perfume in one hit? No.

I too saw their stands at the Sunderland Air Show at the weekend but it appeared they were trading as 'DESIGNER PERFUMES DIRECT' and it was amazing the amount of gullible idiots that were sucked into buying repackaged, cheap rubbish for £20. Believe me, these are cheap rotten fragrances, and making an awful lot of money from them...When they say 'Not available in shops' there is a reason for that: because the shops will not sell sh*t. They are illegally using famous faces to promote their products too: It is amazing how powerful a fancy box/bottle/celebrity endorsement can sell a bottle of rotten fragranced cats p*ss very easily!

The 'hook' is the promise of free products, and throwing out free samples like confetti. This encourages people to stay and watch the rest of the pitch, waiting for more freebies. They eventually convince buyers that they are to happy to pay £20 for a carrier bag of 'freebies'. What fools they are.

This scam has been on The Real Hustle....I can't believe the amount of people stupid enough to buy them! Expect to see their perfumes at your nearest pound shop very soon!

i to was at the sunderland air show and brought a bag they all smelt ok.
i brought them for x mas as they are good presents. dont see what your problem is. seems like you've got to much time on your hands. worrying what other poeple are doing get a life.

[donnac2558]

i to was at the sunderland air show and brought a bag they all smelt ok.
i brought them for x mas as they are good presents. dont see what your problem is. seems like you've got to much time on your hands. worrying what other poeple are doing get a life.

Glad I don't know you or get one for Christmas. At the worst cheap sh*te at worse causes allergy and trip to hospital.

[mippy]

I saw these on the bus the other week.

If you are unsure abotu whether a perfume is a 'top name', check out Basenotes - I think it's basenotes.net but Google should bring it up. This has everything on it.

If you like the fragrance and don't care whether it's a fake, then that's fine - my mother prefers fake Angel to the real thing. But to advertise them as top names is wrong. I work in advertising, we do a lot of ads for fragrance launches, and Fleur is unknown to me.

[mippy]

At the end of the day my sister has got 6 bottles of perfume that she can give away as birthday/christmas pressies, they smell nice and they were a bargain, considering the money she will save on buying presents.

Hope they're not close relatives :)

Selling goods with a false RRP is illegal and against BERR regulations. I have to check these at work every time a sale is advertised on TV, and they must be genuine. You can report them to BERR if you have been had.

[mippy]

Found a picture of what they look like:

http://hotmoomoo.blogspot.com/2008/09/pampered-d.html

[boredandconfused]

These perfumes are all sold in my local Pound Shops - all in the same bottle, long and thin with a red lid.

[london87]

[QUOTE=mippy;23920191]Found a picture of what they look like:



ye thats the bag i got and the perfumes there surprisingly good value for money. 6 prezys saved myself a bundle.
thank you

[london87]

[QUOTE=london87;23924345]

...and you'd be forever known as a cheapskate! Would you be happy to receive a bottle of Curage Street Racing from your wife?:rotfl:

well the way money is at the moment you have to be happy with what you get, and if it smells nice. then i dont see what the problem its the thought that counts.
i surpose you sh#t money. i bet your one to pay £40 in a perfume shop when it cost them pennys in the same factorys to make. yet because your told its better by big companys you pay it.
WHOS REALY GETTING HUSTLED

[underlay_guru]

[QUOTE=underlay_guru;23926563]

i surpose you sh#t money. i bet your one to pay £40 in a perfume shop when it cost them pennys in the same factorys to make. yet because your told its better by big companys you pay it.
WHOS REALY GETTING HUSTLED

For the record, no I dont sh*t money. You make me sound like some sort of brand name snob. The 'big companies' don't have to tell you that it's better because the products speak for themselves. Theres no harm in spending a few more quid for peace of mind.

By buying a reputable branded fragrance you have peace of mind that the scent will last, will not cause severe allergic reaction, and is manufactured in the appropriate conditions with the appropriate ingredients. You also know that the company has invested £££££'s in developing a quality product.

....on the other hand, you do not what ingredients, whether safe or unsafe have gone into the cheaper fragrances, or what kind of factory in the World has manufactured them. Branded scents are simply copied, and the scent usually does not last very long...If you are not happy with the perfume, or have had an allergic reaction to it, you cannot take it back for a refund: the seller will be long gone, and the manufacturers details will be non-existent.

Would you drink this:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2873039.stm
just because its cheaper?

[loulou54]

I am just after buying the perfume from a shop in Blackpool last week. I was thinking the "Devil wears Perfume" is real and maybe the rest are fakes. 3 ladies perfumes, 2 gents aftershaves and 2 bottles of body wash for £20 is a bargain in my eyes - fake or not.:o

[london87]

[QUOTE=underlay_guru;23958983][QUOTE=london87;23928647]

For the record, no I dont sh*t money. You make me sound like some sort of brand name snob. The 'big companies' don't have to tell you that it's better because the products speak for themselves. Theres no harm in spending a few more quid for peace of mind.

By buying a reputable branded fragrance you have peace of mind that the scent will last, will not cause severe allergic reaction, and is manufactured in the appropriate conditions with the appropriate ingredients. You also know that the company has invested £££££'s in developing a quality product.

....on the other hand, you do not what ingredients, whether safe or unsafe have gone into the cheaper fragrances, or what kind of factory in the World has manufactured them. Branded scents are simply copied, and the scent usually does not last very long...If you are not happy with the perfume, or have had an allergic reaction to it, you cannot take it back for a refund: the seller will be long gone, and the manufacturers details will be non-existent.

just looked at the boxes and there are details on the back of the boxes, so instead of b##ching on here why dont you email them. and im sure if they are a real company they can put your mind at rest about whats safe apoved ingredients are in the bottles. and if there not ill apolgies. SO CHOP CHOP

[immynjoesmum]

[QUOTE=underlay_guru;23958983][QUOTE=london87;23928647]

For the record, no I dont sh*t money. You make me sound like some sort of brand name snob. The 'big companies' don't have to tell you that it's better because the products speak for themselves. Theres no harm in spending a few more quid for peace of mind.

By buying a reputable branded fragrance you have peace of mind that the scent will last, will not cause severe allergic reaction, and is manufactured in the appropriate conditions with the appropriate ingredients. You also know that the company has invested £££££'s in developing a quality product.

....on the other hand, you do not what ingredients, whether safe or unsafe have gone into the cheaper fragrances, or what kind of factory in the World has manufactured them. Branded scents are simply copied, and the scent usually does not last very long...If you are not happy with the perfume, or have had an allergic reaction to it, you cannot take it back for a refund: the seller will be long gone, and the manufacturers details will be non-existent.

just looked at the boxes and there are details on the back of the boxes, so instead of b##ching on here why dont you email them. and im sure if they are a real company they can put your mind at rest about whats safe apoved ingredients are in the bottles. and if there not ill apolgies. SO CHOP CHOP


what's with the attitude?! someone's a little defensive about their cheap rip-off "bargains" :rotfl:

[mippy]

"i bet your one to pay £40 in a perfume shop when it cost them pennys in the same factorys to make. yet because your told its better by big companys you pay it."

I've never bought branded perfume because 'your [sic] told its better by big companys' - you may well not have heard of the perfume I wear most frequently, because it isn't advertised nor made by a multinational. I buy perfumes because I like them, and I find perfume is very personal - some people love Angel, I'm not keen on it at all. These perfumes may well be lovely, I've not tried them, but I'd rather get no present at all, or a bar of Dairy Milk, than some perfume that I won't like bought because it was cheap. all that'll do is take up space in my room.

[underlay_guru]

just looked at the boxes and there are details on the back of the boxes, so instead of b##ching on here why dont you email them. and im sure if they are a real company they can put your mind at rest about whats safe apoved ingredients are in the bottles. and if there not ill apolgies. SO CHOP CHOP

No b**ching here mate. I've never told anyone not to buy them, I've just given the factual risks that are associated with cheap fragrances. I know about professional, persuasive selling techniques inside out, and have simply brought these to light....

You have a massive chip on your shoulder: why not respect other peoples opinions rather than spitting the dummy when others disagree with your replies? Your not an employee of the perfume company, are you? ;)

Try Googling the trading names.....they bring up no traces of a company website.
Try googling any of the perfume names...all it finds are eBay listings and this MSE thread.

In my opinion: Sounds like a company that does not want to be dectected/found by unhappy customers (but thats only my opinion...)

[Burgerboy]

I walk past these guys every week and they have the same 'stooges' with them in the crowd waving their money about. I noticed that all the customers (all women) meet up round the corner and come back half an hour later to do the same thing. Harmless to most, but to the people who buy into their routine they are screwed out of money by these guys. I looked up and found most of the devil wears prada perfume being sold on the internet went for under £10 (anything else was by the same people). If this is illegal then why are they allowed to continue?

[BitterAndTwisted]

Because they are just staying on THIS side of the law by a whisker.

I really cannot understand why people would be tempted to buy that awful sh1te: even the way they sell it, like you're at some dodgy East End street-market tells you everything you need to know. I'd rather spend my money online at the Perfume-Parlour, at least there you can get something that smells lovely, doesn't masquerade as something it's not and still get change from three quid a pop.

[LoffVegas]

Just thought I would look up this perfume. :eek:

I was with my wife in Oxford St on Saturday, we came across a shop "promoting" these brands. Perfume Addiction or similarly named. Closing down sale apparently!!

We pretty much knew what it was all about. My wife did buy some, purely because she wanted some cheap perfume for work, rather than using her expensive favourites day to day. I didn't mind to be honest, as it's me that always ends up paying for it.

I stood back and watched it all unfold, much the same as I showed her the "lesson" 13 years ago, in the same street, outside Oxford Circus Tube (this time a man with a suitcase) where the people buying, would hand the money back to the gaffer and buy all over again, after depositing their bagged purchase back to the runner!

So the patter started over the microphone, a few people were far too "involved" in whooping and hollering to be normal customers. They were the stooges, the frenzy was whipped up, my wife by this time had bought a bag of "get what you pay for cheap perfume".

We then stood back and watched. Quite alot of bags were sold. We purposely walked back past 20 minutes later, the same "customers" buying all over again (Stooges).

They didn't smell too bad, however, my wife has just left the doctors with a terrible rash on her chest and arms, Doc says its an allergic reaction to something.

The Devil Wears perfume no doubt :rolleyes:

[coralred]

I bought these at a Market. TBH i knew they were copies and im surprised everyone doesnt. I mean what do you expect for £20. But for 6 bottles of cheap smellies (which dont smell that bad) i use them as an everyday spray, or as a room air freshener if i dont like the smell lol. Yes i do buy original purfumes but at £40 a go i use them for special occassions. You get what you pay for and i treat these as no different from body sprays i buy at a supermarket. The smell of them dont last long but then for £3.00 a bottle (approx) it aint gonna. And if youve got little girls they can just pretend to have the real thing just like mum x and i also got some H20 Bath Spa Stuff?? Not opened it but it looks ok on the bathroom shelf lol

[BitterAndTwisted]

You'd be much, much better off if you invested £2.25 including postage on some perfume oil at Perfume-Parlour. Honestly. Those East-End barrow-boy types with their microphones! Such terrible, nasty muck they sell

[motorhome123]

i too paid £20 for these perfumes (6 in total) got home and did some research on the net and they are not genuine...he told tales about "devil wears perfume" coming onto the high streets as a new £40 perfume. I returned to the same market yesterday to demand my £20 back only to be told that this week they were selling towels and not perfumes!!!! After a lot of arguments one of the market organisers actually got my £20 back for me. Never again will i go near these market traders :-(

[coralred]

But surely at £20 for 6 bottles you would know there not genuine. I knew this from the beginning when i bought them. You dont get owt for nowt and anyone that thought they were originals must be naieve (SP)! When he said that the devil wears perfume is or was on the market at £40 i think he was referring to the Devil Wears Prada (which was ages ago).

[footofthemountain]

:mad:i purchased the devil wears perfume, lovely, secret code, ja taime for women,ice blue and daniel banks gift set at a stall at the Edinburgh truck fest 2009 the guy with the mic was throwing freebies into the crowd to intice them to buy the 6 products for £20 i was a fool and bought 2bags the bags were lovely and the boxes were well packaged but when i opended them my granny wouldn't even were them they have NO smell at all!!!!!!!!! and they said the devil wears perfume was out that week i was there, do NOT buy!! they are fake!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've now had to buy real perfume at the perfume shop DONT be tempted to buy any of this s***!!!!!! :mad: RIP OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[coralred]

But thats what you get for £20 :confused: !!!!

[flippin36]

These guys were in my town centre yesterday. Me and OH were laughing because it was all so obvious.... there were crowds of over excited women pushing £20 notes in the face of a guy shouting "you get all these free!" over and over like they were deaf. It was all a bit of a scene and way over the top.

It just made me giggle

[carlymichael]

The same happened to me yesterday on Oxford St, - one of the threads on here talks about the shop with the open front and a woman with a microphone selling Carrie, Posh, Dreams and a fwe others! i was such a MUG and paid £20 for 5 perfumes, i got back to work and realised they were fake and opened them all, they all smelt the same and the packaging was awful, plus these don't exist anywhere on the internet so are clearly fake.
I've just walked right back and they're doing the same today, so i asked someone for my money back and was told to talk to the manager - who is the biggest fattes man i've ever seen like a bull dog. I'm quite small and he was trying to intimidate me and said that as i've opened them all he can't take them back. I told him i'd just let everyone know that they're fakes and he should consider himself lucky that for £20 i don't go and call the police.
After about 20 mins of me calmly arguing....he gave me my £20 back.

Does anyone know if there is a number i can call to report it.???

[underlay_guru]

Hi,

Although people are claiming they are being sold fake goods, I am afraid they are not. The products have extremely similar names and packaging to full priced perfumes on the market, therefore they are staying on the correct side of the law (but only just...). he salesmen plant the seed in your head that it is the real deal, but the customer comes to their own conclusions.

Check my previous posts in the thread: i'm not a fan of these perfumes either, and no matter how much it can be claimed it is illegal, it isn't: just very dishonest...

[simmons_dj]

£20 for 6 bottles of 100ml perfume. What does anyone expect. I got what I expected; 6 nice looking bargain stocking stuffers and a strike through one more item on the Christmas lists

[retepetsir]

They're in Waterloo Station today. Lots of the women in the office have gone and purchased them, oh dear. :eek:

[lisyloo]

What does anyone expect

A bit more than £3.50 spent on my xmas present :rotfl:

[magpie-minis]

Well I wish my husband had seen this site before he spent 20.00 at the market visiting Inverness! I wouldnt have bought them but bless him he thought he had a bargain!

[cinderella100100]

Hi, My partner came back with this after shopping & yes they all fakes but what do you expect for £20! I'm pleased that he did in one way because one of the perfumes was what my nan wore so now I have her scent as now she's no longer with us & I miss her so much.