Is the perfume you purchased a few days ago, in all the excitement and thrill, after finding the brand you have been searching for an eternity, fading away faster than your room freshener?
Clearly, it’s a fake.
And I don’t know if it can console you in any way, but you are not the only person to spend money on a master copy and become disheartened.
The fragrance market is filled with cheap clones that smell precisely like the original. At least, for the first few sniffs. Soon, the aroma changes. And maybe it’s for the better, they don’t last longer than an hour.
Save yourself from spending one more buck on such fake frills. This article will enable you to:
- Differ a fake from an original
- Recognize a fake perfume
Let’s begin.
What Makes a Perfume Fake? – Differences
This section is for those who think it is often better to buy a fake than to buy authentic perfumes in Bangladesh. I mean, what is there at stake, right? If it hits the nose the same as an original, what is really there to care?
The following notes may answer your questions.
Below Standard Quality
Fakes come from fake manufacturers. Unlike authentic makers, these anonymous companies operate behind the scenes without a license from the quality regulators. Quality is often the last thing they consider, as the primary goal of marketing a fake is to deceive buyers into paying for subpar products.
Harmful to Skin and Health
Ingredients used in fake items are mostly chemicals of unknown sorts. Fake manufacturers are not bound to pick their raw materials from authentic sources. The result is products that do what they are meant to do: look and smell original. But at a cost of putting your health and hygiene in danger.
Lack of Note Diversity
Authentic perfumes will transform with time within two or three layers of unique notes, often termed top, heart, and base notes. With a counterfeit, marketers only preserve the top note to trick you.
Short Duration
Each note has a lifetime of its own, and when the last or base note fades, that’s already 6 to 12 hours of aromatic moments for you. The single deluding note in clones doesn’t survive even an hour, and in the external heat, they vaporize before your sweat.
Lower Price
Last but not least, a replica will mesmerize you with its astoundingly cheap price. The dealer may tell you that those are pirated originals or exclusive only for you as a lucky or opening customer. Don’t let yourself fall for all such sweet talk. Premium quality always follows a premium price.
5 Ways to Spot Fake Perfumes without Failure
Now you know the shortcomings of fakers. But how to tell their veils right-on when you are buying?
Take time to check the following:
Packaging
Hold and touch the covers, logos, fonts, and decorative linings. Look carefully for misspelled texts, blurry visuals, and asymmetric positioning. The expected smoothness and premium feel will be absent, which comes from polished embeds, thick packages, and design perfection.
Batch Codes and Serial Numbers
You will find these numbers grouped together with a barcode or sometimes isolated as some engraved numerals near the bottom of the bottle. You can use these numbers to find out whether they are really from the authentic sellers.
- Visit the official website of the manufacturer
- Find the batch code authenticator
- Input the batch or serial number
Each item has a unique batch or serial number. If yours is not recognized by the manufacturer, be sure of its unauthenticity.
Bottle Design and Aesthetics
Original perfumes rarely come in low-grade plastic or thin glassware. If the edges of the bottle feel rough and opaque, its cap struggles to fit and click effortlessly, take caution and mind other details to declare the product as a fake.
Delicacy of the Notes
Yes. It will be far more difficult to notice an anomaly by the smell of the top note without giving it a fair amount of time to dissolve and change into the next hint.
If the seller allows a trial, use it. Apply the perfume on your wrist, give it an hour, and probe its transformation. However, an instant sniffing can reveal a fake by hitting harsh, synthetic, and slightly odd to experienced noses.
Color and Amount
Popular brands can have more than one clone variant in the market. Before shopping, spend some time researching and learning about the product you have in mind. In what colors and weights they are officially released. Because, for fraud makers, reaching the original hue stands the biggest challenge. To grab more customers, they sell their products in many sizes of bottles, instead of one.
Bottom Lines
Don’t make a face by discovering your favorite brand at half its price. Neither confuse yourself to the point of suffocation while trying to figure out whether it’s really original or fake. Replicas won’t satisfy any of your needs and disappoint you in every way. Be smart, know what to look for, like packaging minutes, longevity, colors, and weights, and spare yourself from wasting money.
