Cheap Smell-alikes - Cheaper alternatives to Expensive Perfumes

Pursey

Just want to thank you all for this thread and for your help!! I have ordered 10 now and am really excited to see how good they are!!!

makeupaddict

Ordered some scents yesterday lunchtime and they came today! Amazing service.
I ordered:
Pink Sugar
Flowerbomb
and Gucci Guilty
In the 3ml size and got the 3ml x 3 for £6 plus £1 shipping

They all smell amazing! I've never smelt Pink Sugar but it smells really sweet like candy, vanilla and caramel - would be great for anyone who loves really sweet scents or someone younger.
I don't own flowerbomb but my friend does and I always ask what she's wearing when she has it on. The PP version smells the same I would say - so beautiful and amazing considering the original is £50+ for a tiny bottle.
Gucci Guilty was just an extra to make up the offer and I'd smelt it before. Online it says its a mixture of peach and floral scents which is right on with a little sexy hint of something.

Only bad point I'd have is that the bottles now don't have the brand and perfume name printed on them - just the alternative name.

An update on the first 2 I bought months ago:
I didn't like Angel because I thought it was way too strong - it is strong but to get the best scent you just have to touch your skin with it. It lasts amazingly and even lasted through a shower for me! Smells amazingly vanillary when you don't apply a lot.
I also bought Light Blue and a few months on I still don't like it. Its smells way too much like off orange peel and doesn't have the freshness of the original. If you like Light Blue by D&G instead buy Marks and Spencers Azure Breeze for £12 for 100mls - exactly the same and in a similar bottle.

Thanks for all the great recommendations on this forum :T

sofababe

I've put little sticky labels on the back of my new bottles so I can see the new name and I know which is which with the "type" as well.
I'm glad to read that Guilty is good as I have a mini of the real thing and will be getting an oil when its gone as I really like it.
Flowerbomb is gorgeous, I have 2 bottles of this now, its a real favourite.
I'm itching to make another order but I'm being strict with myself and not buying more till I've used up some of my other perfumes (I have 66:o:D:p)

Ali-belle

I placed an order last night and the site seems to have gone back to the old way of ordering which is great. The OOS scents seem to be back in stock now too.
LOVE this site!

jen77_2

Just a quickie to say if you notice your favourite missing off list, if you email Amir he may add them on... he's just put CK Euphoria and Vera Wang Princess on for me :j

patchwork_cat

I have some of these and they do smell nice, but I don't like the roller bottle and I have thought that they aren't that cheap ounce for ounce.

3 ml costs £2.25, which is £75 per 100 ml if you buy say a 50 ml bottle of Ghost Eau de Toilette from Boots it is £65 per 100 ml! Maybe I am not comparing like for like as I know this is Eau de Toilette and not Eau de Parfum, but...

sofababe

patchwork_cat wrote: »

I have some of these and they do smell nice, but I don't like the roller bottle and I have thought that they aren't that cheap ounce for ounce.

3 ml costs £2.25, which is £75 per 100 ml if you buy say a 50 ml bottle of Ghost Eau de Toilette from Boots it is £65 per 100 ml! Maybe I am not comparing like for like as I know this is Eau de Toilette and not Eau de Parfum, but...

Millilitre for millilitre they are more expensive but as u say, u can't compare like for like. One 3ml bottle of oil easily lasts as long as a 30ml bottle of EDT. I applied PP Eternity at 10am and I can still smell it almost as strongly as when I first applied it, I've never had an EDT that lasted 12 hours with one spray. I think of it that way, in terms of how long a bottle lasts compared to a bottle of whatever your favourite is from a Boots or Debenhams counter. Each to his or her own

dpixie

sofababe, i agree, also, here you have loads of choice and you can buy as much or as little as you like. if you can't make up your mind (like me) you have have 3 or 4 or more for the summer and the same number for the winter and you will still have change from what you might have spent at boots or debenhams. also, you get great service and if, like me, you like outside the uk, postage is more than reasonable. i love PP and am sooo happy that i found it. i think i have placed 4 orders this year already and can admit to having to re-order as i have used up some of the bottles as i love the smell so much that i keep applying it so that i can smell it, even if those around me can smell it at 100 paces!

d

patchwork_cat

dpixie wrote: »

, even if those around me can smell it at 100 paces!

d

That is part of my problem no one else can smell it, I can , but they can't. I don't like putting fragrance on my skin as it is very sensitive, I can put it on my wrists, but not my neck. Do you use spray or roll on?

dpixie

patchwork cat i put it on my pulse points - neck, wrists and inside of elbow. i can never smell any of them on me (other than springflowers) which means that i continue to apply.

if i am not mistaken, perfume needs body heat in order for the smell to waft around, however, i am not absolutely positive on this. if this is the case, ensure you put it on where it will get heated up, it will make a difference.

d