How to Get Designer Perfumes for Less
When buying designer perfume at full price, you're paying not only for the ingredients in the bottle but packaging. Also, if it is manufactured in France, add duty to the cost. When you are trying to stay within a budget but still desire an expensive designer brand, there are ways to buy designer perfumes and fragrances at a savings by heading off the beaten path. Does this Spark an idea?
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Tour your favorite department store and obtain a fragrance sample for free by politely asking for one at the cosmetic counter. It is that simple. Although it is only a sample, it can hold you over until you are ready to buy a full size.
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Buy extremely expensive fragrance or perfume by asking the cosmetics clerk to sell you the sample tester bottle. You might end up paying less than a cheaper brand would cost at full retail.
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Obtain your favorite perfume from a gift basket instead of purchasing a bottle. Often you will get other items in the gift basket along with the fragrance such as soaps, lotions, powders, essential oils or even several sizes of your perfume for a fraction of what it would cost to buy the items all separately.
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Take note of store promotions where you can get a gift with a purchase. These promotional gifts often include small bottles of fragrance. Visit each cosmetic counter, leave your name, number and ask to be called when a new promotion is launched that includes fragrance. By making a small purchase, you may receive a bottle of fragrance or perfume in the future.
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Aim for the off-price stores that sell designer clothes and accessories. Many carry an assorted selection of perfumes and fragrances by designer at deeply discount prices.
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Travel through the duty free shop when flying from an airport. The duty free is just that--duty free on the expensive foreign fragrances.
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Try online auctions or websites. You might hit on a great deal that will allow you to wear your dream perfume for only a fraction of the cost. Know how to get the best price, by using price comparison search engines to compare prices on fragrances at a variety of websites in one quick step. Look for deals like free shipping to save even more money.
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Invite your friends for a get together trade off. Perhaps you received perfume and it was something not to your liking. For the get together, ask friends to bring their discarded perfumes and trade them with each other.
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Find a full size, unopened bottle of designer fragrance at pennies on the dollar at a yard sales or estate sales. Many unwanted designer perfume gifts can be found by searching these venues.
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Tips & Warnings
As with anything for sale, there are many unscrupulous people on the internet who sell imitation or bogus fragrances and state it is genuine. Make sure you are dealing with a reputable site.
