Tobacco perfume samples: what to try
Tobacco in perfume means dried leaf, honey and spice, not smoke. Eight samples that show it fresh, sweet, boozy and dark, with recorded notes.
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Testing perfume, explained
Guides on decants and samples, on testing a perfume on skin, and background on brands and notes.
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Incense perfume samples: what to try
Incense in perfume means resin and smoke, but also cool air and salt. Eight incense and frankincense samples, from gentle to dark.
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Which Stéphane Humbert Lucas sample to try first
Stéphane Humbert Lucas is a painter and poet who sees his perfumes in colours. Eight samples from the 777 and Serpent collections, ordered by ratings, with a note map.
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Which Lorenzo Pazzaglia sample to try first
Lorenzo Pazzaglia writes Extraits that smell of a kitchen and a beach bar: rum, vanilla, mango, sea salt. Eight samples in order of Fragrantica popularity, with a note map.
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Are perfume samples free?
Some perfume samples are free and many are not. Here is where the free ones come from and what a decant sample is for.
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Sandalwood perfume samples: what to try
Sandalwood can be creamy, dry, spiced or fresh. Eight samples that show each side, from a four-note wood to citrus and milk.
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How do you use a perfume sample vial?
A plain guide to opening, priming and spraying a perfume sample vial, how to dab when there is no pump, and what to do with the last drops.
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Which Sospiro sample to try first
Sospiro writes each perfume like a musical score, with names such as Vibrato and Basso. Eight samples in order of Parfumo ratings, and a map of the woods and ambers.
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Sweet Arabic gourmand samples
Eight sweet Arabic gourmand samples sorted by the kind of sweetness: praline, caramel, milk, coffee, chocolate, candy and liqueur.
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Which Jo Malone London sample to try first
Jo Malone London writes each scent as three notes and invites you to layer them. Eight samples ordered by ratings, and how to test them alone and together.
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Which Roja Parfums sample to try first
Roja Parfums writes long formulas, sometimes twenty or thirty notes in one pyramid. Eight samples in order of Parfumo ratings, and a map of the oakmoss, oud and tobacco.
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Oud for beginners: soft oud samples
New to oud? Seven samples where oud is surrounded by fruit, flowers, rose or caramel, with the intensity tag stated for each.
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From the house of FragranceGems
The sample department of FragranceGems
DecantGems is part of FragranceGems B.V. in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. We fill every sample ourselves from the original bottle into a glass spray vial and label it ourselves. Behind it stands the same team that handles every FragranceGems order.
Reviews of FragranceGems, the shop behind DecantGems
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- Glass spray vial, labelled by us
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