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The fear of fakes. Temptation, will power and regret.
So, in the world of fragrance we often find highly sought after fragrances out of stock in certain countries. I am in the UK and here we have fragrances that are spoken about all over YouTube being incredibly cheap but in our circumstances because they are so hard to find they can become very expensive when in stock and often sell out in days, sometimes even hours.
An example of this...

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Somebody that I used to know: to rebuy or to move on
To 5-year old Lotte, being a woman meant applying an Oscar de la Renta perfume to your pulse point, touching up your makeup with an Elizabeth Arden face compact puff, and matching the colour of your boxy leather handbag to pointy leather shoes. To those born in the 80-90s this description might not come as a surprise. It was no wonder that when I flounced off to University, the first notable...

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How do you rate longevity and when does a fragrance lose its identity?
I decided today that i would be making a change in how i rate longevity. I wrote a blog about how i see weak fragrances recently and it seems to have made a change in how some people see weak projecting and short lasting fragrances and even inspired someone to rethink things and write a blog about it. Thanks for the mention :) They are to the right of me on the homepage...

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How do you solve a problem like longevity?
In an earlier write-up, I implored you to consider the non-importance of a fragrance having eternal longevity. Today, I want to tackle another aspect to this. It is as you suspect, I am unable to keep my objectivity and am taking sides in this argument to say that a perfume's longevity is important. I think this sentiment is shared across perfume lovers as a fellow writer bewailed the presence of weak,...

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Fed up of weak fragrances
First off I am no professional and only have a modest collection but still a collection that people say is one of too many. I too don’t think I need as much as I have but I have this urge to try find my next fragrance that will be one of a new experience to me. For example when I tried my first of the fragrances that we call “Blues” and in my case was Dylan Blue from Versace my day was made,...