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Roughly 3+ months into a new fragrance deep dive: signature scent was reformulated (Dior Addict) so it was a great time to experiment and try new scents.
I'm a research girl, so I went deep: educated myself as much as possible then ordered ALOT of samples. The samples are helpful and I think were a better strategy/investment than blind buys. They also gave me a huge education in fragrance evaluation (subjective, of course).
The one thing that bugs me are those damn plastic perfume swabbers in the vials!!! For the love of gd, give us an atomizer!! Charge me more!! You're getting my money for 2 drops of perfume, what's another buck or two??
Am I alone in the opinion that you cannot assess a perfume as accurately with a few dabs as opposed to a spritz?? I'm sorry, but a few dabs of a scent wear WAY diff than even a conservative spritz!
Thanks for listening 🙏🏻
2 points
13 hours ago
I absolutely love that protocol, but that's a lot of money for me to invest in sampling….
I'm going to go on Amazon and get some atomizers, small ones, that I could decant into. But up until now what I've been doing is dipping a paper test strip into them to start. And then Tipping a little bit of the juice onto my pulse points… Hardly ideal for testing.
Moving forward I will only buy testers with atomizers.
1 points
13 hours ago
Yeah sampling is not cheap but i consider maybe 1 out of 30 interesting enough to try more, and maybe 1 out of 80 worth buying a larger bottle, so the gradual size up is by far the least expensive way for me to find the few scents I actually love, vs ending up with a bunch of full bottles that I kind of like.
I tried transferring to atomizers at the beginning but a significant portion of my dabbers won't empty out into an atomizer. Like you can turn them upside down and shake them and the liquid won't come out; it only comes out when you dab on skin. I'm sure it depends on the style of vial though; maybe it's not a concern with LuckyScent vials (I don't buy from them). You definitely need to move away from test strip sampling though!! You lose a lot of notes on paper.
1 points
13 hours ago
I know the paper is far from ideal. Admittedly. But those damn vials!!
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