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Learn more about vintage perfumery from our favorite content creators on YouTube!     Vintage Focused Creators  @Scentland4753 Chris possesses an extensive library of videos focused around vintage fragrance, showcasing through...

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Vintage Decants

Learn more about vintage perfumery from our favorite content creators on YouTube!     Vintage Focused Creators  @Scentland4753 Chris possesses an extensive library of videos focused around vintage fragrance, showcasing through...

What are good websites that reference vintage?

What are good websites that reference vintage?

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Buying Guide: Basenotes.com Grant has produced some of the best user made forums regarding the fragrance community. Basenotes is an excellent hub for the experienced collector.  Fragrantica.com is the largest perfume database...

What are good websites that reference vintage?

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: Basenotes.com Grant has produced some of the best user made forums regarding the fragrance community. Basenotes is an excellent hub for the experienced collector.  Fragrantica.com is the largest perfume database...

Reformulation fragrance guide with dior eau Sauvage boxes

Do I need to be concerned about counterfeit vin...

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Buying Guide: Luckily unlike modern perfumery, it is far less likely to encounter counterfeit bottles when buying vintage. However, before any large or rare purchase you should definitely cross reference...

Do I need to be concerned about counterfeit vin...

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: Luckily unlike modern perfumery, it is far less likely to encounter counterfeit bottles when buying vintage. However, before any large or rare purchase you should definitely cross reference...

Middle eastern cologne perfume reformulated ingredient list

How can I date A middle eastern/clone fragrance...

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Buying Guide: Since middle eastern brands rarely do batch numbers, you'll have to read the ingredient list on the box to check your version. Note, newer re-formulated colognes, now have...

How can I date A middle eastern/clone fragrance...

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Buying Guide: Since middle eastern brands rarely do batch numbers, you'll have to read the ingredient list on the box to check your version. Note, newer re-formulated colognes, now have...

Short ingredient 2002 boxes on cologne

Finding your best batch made easy

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Buying Guide: In my opinion the most significant reformulations in perfumery happened in 2004, 2016, and 2023. For best results, you want to pursue a formulation before it had a...

Finding your best batch made easy

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: In my opinion the most significant reformulations in perfumery happened in 2004, 2016, and 2023. For best results, you want to pursue a formulation before it had a...

Bottom of perfume bottle with batch scratched off

Why are batch codes sometimes scratched off of ...

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Buying Guide: It's usually not because it's a counterfeit bottle, counterfeits usually have a legitimate batch code printed on the bottle. Often this is a primitive technique done by both...

Why are batch codes sometimes scratched off of ...

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: It's usually not because it's a counterfeit bottle, counterfeits usually have a legitimate batch code printed on the bottle. Often this is a primitive technique done by both...