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

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:

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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 :-(

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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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But thats what you get for £20 !!!!

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.???