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

**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 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

biggurs wrote: »

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 https://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