How to spot a fake perfume
Nowadays, there are a lot of fake perfumes being sold everywhere in the internet. As a safeguard to our customer, here some tips on how you can spot a fake perfume:
Nowadays, there are a lot of fake perfumes being sold everywhere in the internet. As a safeguard to our customer, here some tips on how you can spot a fake perfume:
• Carefully examine the cellophane wrap. On a well-made perfume, the cellophane is wrapped closely around the box. Most counterfeit products don't have the cellophane so tightly wrapped. If the cellophane is messy or moving around the box, that's a sure sign the perfume's a fake.
• Watch for excess glue or adhesive tape. If there is a lot of tape or glue inside the perfume box or on the exterior of the packaging, the perfume is probably a fraud.
• Look carefully at the box. If the perfume's box is made out of very thin material, the product is most likely a fake. Any high-end beauty manufacturer will use high quality paperboard when they're creating a carton for their product. Thin packaging signals a fake.
• Read the print. Watch for an uneven brand name or any misspelling on the packaging.
• Examine barcodes. Barcodes should be at the bottom of the perfume box. If you see that they are the side of the box, you should be suspicious.
Some could be really tricky. For example, a fake DKNY Be Delicious have a coating "line" mark on the bottom of its bottle. An original one have a smooth bottom. If you touch the bottom of the bottle you will feel the line. Here are the pictures of the original one:
Original DKNY Be Delicious : No "line" mark and a smooth bottom |
Type of Perfumes
Sniffing around for "types of perfume" turned up the sweet smell of eau de toilette and eau de parfum, as well as other versions of scented luxury.
Most perfumes are complex combinations of natural materials, such as essential oils from plants, and synthetic products that increase the lasting power and heighten the smell. Alcohol is used as a liquid base for perfume, and the ratio of alcohol to scented perfume concentrates determines what the final concoction is labeled.
From highest concentration to least, the different forms of perfume are:
- Perfume, also called extract or extrait perfume, can include 15-40% perfume concentrates. This is the purest form of scented product and is the most expensive as a result.
- Eau de parfum(EDP) contains about 7-15% perfume concentrates. This is the most popular and common form of perfume. It provides a long-lasting fragrance and generally doesn't cost as much as extract perfume.
- Eau de toilette(EDT) has around 1-6% perfume concentrates. This makes for a light scent that doesn't linger as long as the more intense versions. It was originally intended to be a refreshing body splash to help people wake up in the morning.
- Eau de cologne(EDC) is sometimes used interchangeably with the term eau de toilette. However, the concoction began as the name of a light, fresh fragrance mixed with citrus oils and was made popular by Napoleon. Some perfumers today have a version of this called eau fraiche.
Because of this, even it is an original perfume, it is does not mean the perfume's smell will be strong and power. Some manufacturers just make it that way as it is their signature.