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

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

donnac2558 wrote: »

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_2

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_2

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

underlay_guru

jakeuk wrote: »

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...

jakeuk wrote: »

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_2

underlay_guru wrote: »

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

london87 wrote: »

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