Angel Perfume

Nonamenoone

Blede should be *blamed* sorry!

PennysIntoPounds

This is one of my core perfumes and while it's not as good as it used to be years ago (I expect like others have said it's been 'reformulated') it does still smell like itself. It is however fainter and doesn't have that same deep sweet scent note, but I can identify it immediately on people passing by.

I would return it for testing if you can be bothered. 

If you can't get a refund or partial refund, you could try selling it on with an honest description of how much has been used and that it smells different to you, on vinted, FBM etc. It will be for much less than you paid but would be some money back.

Obviously, posting anything comes with the risk of it getting lost or a dodgy buyer, and if you state collection only then you have to deal with managing that, but most sales go fine.

Well done on your win regardless, always nice to have a bit of good luck even if it's not a perfect outcome 🙂

sheramber

Nonamenoone said:

So in all, they blede for storing it incorrectly over 2 days for it having an adverse affect on the smell, but them having for 2 years and seemily resealing it doesn't.
Any advice really Welcomed! Thank you 

Your options  are to return it for testing or accept it as it is. 

Largs

For some comparison, I just checked a bottle of Spicebomb that I bought from Boots the Chemist and my batch code if telling me it was manufactured 1 year and 4 months ago.  I haven't opened it yet.  

Nonamenoone

sheramber said:

Nonamenoone said:

So in all, they blede for storing it incorrectly over 2 days for it having an adverse affect on the smell, but them having for 2 years and seemily resealing it doesn't.
Any advice really Welcomed! Thank you 

Your options  are to return it for testing or accept it as it is. 

I just wonder if I should be paying to return something that has been identified as opened and resealed etc. Also, I guess if it gets damaged in transit it will also be on me. 🤔

sheramber

Nonamenoone said:

sheramber said:

Nonamenoone said:

So in all, they blede for storing it incorrectly over 2 days for it having an adverse affect on the smell, but them having for 2 years and seemily resealing it doesn't.
Any advice really Welcomed! Thank you 

Your options  are to return it for testing or accept it as it is. 

I just wonder if I should be paying to return something that has been identified as opened and resealed etc. Also, I guess if it gets damaged in transit it will also be on me. 🤔

How did they establish it had been opened and resealed  before you bought it since you had opened it?

donnac2558

I belong to a perfume forum and on there we go nuts to find older bottles.  Some buy bottles vintage 20 years plus and still smell as good as they remember when they first bought way back.

With perfume, the top notes are the ones that go first. 

A few years ago, a member bought a bottle of Dior perfume from a well-known website. They were convinced it was not right and perhaps a fake.  The website insisted this was impossible! She contacted Dior, and they asked for it to be sent to them for testing.  And, yes, it was a fake.   The website kept insisting no, but did refund her.  The weird thing, that website pulled all the bottle of that perfume.

born_again

donnac2558 said:

I belong to a perfume forum and on there we go nuts to find older bottles.  Some buy bottles vintage 20 years plus and still smell as good as they remember when they first bought way back.

With perfume, the top notes are the ones that go first. 

A few years ago, a member bought a bottle of Dior perfume from a well-known website. They were convinced it was not right and perhaps a fake.  The website insisted this was impossible! She contacted Dior, and they asked for it to be sent to them for testing.  And, yes, it was a fake.   The website kept insisting no, but did refund her.  The weird thing, that website pulled all the bottle of that perfume.

Why is that weird?
Fake product. Dior would be suing them for selling such & they would have had no choice but to remove it.

Ergates

Or, they'd bought a batch of what they *thought* was genuine perfume from the grey market, and then found out it was fake.

MyRealNameToo

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head said:

Ergates said:

In a shop they'd have a tester bottle already open that isn't for sale - they wouldn't let you open and test the bottle you're buying.  

That is true but the same would be said of most display models. A TV shop could have display models but they wouldn't typically let you open the box of a random TV and then set it up nor would they sell you the display model.  

MyRealNameToo said: Even with places with testers they dont always have all options available for testing, particularly if they are selling more expensive variants like perfumes, they may have the eau de perfume open to test but will just tell you the perfume version is more intense without anyway for you to try. 

Its similar with lots of other products, yes TVs are often on display in Curry's but in Makro they arent and if you want a special order model they dont have in store at neither can you try before you buy but the argument that because some TVs are displayed in some stores seems to stand for everyone being able to try every model if buying online. 

The regs merely mention that in particular handling is excessive is beyond what can be done in a shop, I don't think the world has time to debate whether or not some shops only have eau de perfume as a tester or one shop has 25 TVs on display and the other only 1. 

I would say though that I'd expect the more expensive the perfume the more likely there would be a tester, but haven't purchased such a thing in a shop for a long time.

I don't think you should be able to unseal a bottle of perfume, test it and then send it back for a full refund but here we are  

But thats my point, in a shop you cannot open a sealed box of purfume and try it so why should you be able to do so at home?