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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...

Content creators we highly recommend

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?

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...

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...

Ingredient perfume lists vintage decants

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...

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 batch code

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

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: Modern middle eastern bottles and boxes often they will have a PD (production date) listed.  With older bottles or boxes the batch codes and dates may be absent....

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

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: Modern middle eastern bottles and boxes often they will have a PD (production date) listed.  With older bottles or boxes the batch codes and dates may be absent....

Universal perfume dating symbols

Finding your best batch made easy

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: In my opinion the most significant reformulations in perfumery happened in 2005, 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 2005, 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 ...

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: Often this is a primitive technique done by stores or sometimes distribution, to camouflage the production date of items. In fact it's still being done within modern perfumery...

Why are batch codes sometimes scratched off of ...

Vintage Decants

Buying Guide: Often this is a primitive technique done by stores or sometimes distribution, to camouflage the production date of items. In fact it's still being done within modern perfumery...