Miniatures: do they smell as good as the larger bottles?
11 years ago
This past weekend I've ventured onto the Dutch eBay ("Marktplaats/Market Place")and bought a number of miniatures.
What struck me was a few things: perfume gets 2 different listings: when one wants to sell the juice , it goes into the 'Perfume' subsection of Jewelry and bags.
But miniatures or bottles go into the collectors area where they are called 'perfume collection'.
After having read so many warnings about fake bottles and being wary of having large-sized bottles (no space and a too high absolute price and wanting to own MANY different fragrances, no matter what size), a miniature seemed like a safe choice.
However, I started to wonder: don't most people who own miniatures just have them for the bottle? So they don't care about storage conditions (sun, heat) and simply don't care whether the bottle is full with awesome or turned juice or even water.
Fortunately those that are intentionally filled with water, mostly carry an identification and a warning : factice. Those are the fake bottles on dispay in perfume stores, issued by the perfume house itself.
Bought 4 different miniatures on Sunday, first one arrived today (a 7,5ml Opium edt) arrived today and smells quite OK! (tested the pure parfum and fell in love!)
How has your experience been? Perfume still smelling great or are there bottles that have gone bad?
And vice versa, if you don't mind pre-loved bottles, how do these smell versus miniatures of the same age that are still full? I've also bought a 100ml bottle of Givenchy Amarige with approx. 30ml remaining content for about the same price as a miniature that was about 5ml in size , which made me wonder what was the better choice: would that miniature have smelled better (assuming the same person would offer them, which was not the case)
What struck me was a few things: perfume gets 2 different listings: when one wants to sell the juice , it goes into the 'Perfume' subsection of Jewelry and bags.
But miniatures or bottles go into the collectors area where they are called 'perfume collection'.
After having read so many warnings about fake bottles and being wary of having large-sized bottles (no space and a too high absolute price and wanting to own MANY different fragrances, no matter what size), a miniature seemed like a safe choice.
However, I started to wonder: don't most people who own miniatures just have them for the bottle? So they don't care about storage conditions (sun, heat) and simply don't care whether the bottle is full with awesome or turned juice or even water.
Fortunately those that are intentionally filled with water, mostly carry an identification and a warning : factice. Those are the fake bottles on dispay in perfume stores, issued by the perfume house itself.
Bought 4 different miniatures on Sunday, first one arrived today (a 7,5ml Opium edt) arrived today and smells quite OK! (tested the pure parfum and fell in love!)
How has your experience been? Perfume still smelling great or are there bottles that have gone bad?
And vice versa, if you don't mind pre-loved bottles, how do these smell versus miniatures of the same age that are still full? I've also bought a 100ml bottle of Givenchy Amarige with approx. 30ml remaining content for about the same price as a miniature that was about 5ml in size , which made me wonder what was the better choice: would that miniature have smelled better (assuming the same person would offer them, which was not the case)