Hi everybody, I have a question to all of you: Being in this brotherhood for more than a month taught me a lot of useful things, the most important is to test fragrances with decants befor buying a bottle !! I bought a bunch of high-end perfume samples—for example, 6–7 from Parfums de Marly and just as many from Tom Ford. On the one hand I say to myself "well made you saved a lot of money" 😅, on the other hand I however spent more than 120$ (High-end perfums 2ml samples around 9$), and sometimes I have the tought I threw away money without having a real bottle in my hand 😭. Where is the right solution, if there is any ? I don't think quickly testing a fragrance in a store can give me the same results and convictions of wearing a decant fragrance for 2-3 days exploring all her aspects. Perhaps the answer is that our passion/hobby is just an expensive one ?

My greatest mistake, with a double error, happened last year !! Davidoff Cool Water was one of my favourite fragrances during my adolescence, just following Versace l'Homme and Drakkar Noir. Last year I was online looking for something new, and I found a very good offer for a 125ml Cool Water bottle (around 30$). Nostalgia for my youth immediately took over, and I bought the bottle with no hesitation...and unfortunately without information and further details of the flanker. It was called Intense, I just thought "Wow, an intense version of my original Cool Water"....what could go wrong ??? The moment I received the packet and sprayed was the moment I discovered Fragrantica Notes 😭 And I really felt stupid 🥶I was so disappointed, not only for the new fragrances I didn't love (it's not soo bad after all), but to have missed my Nostalgia Moment 🤣 Well I didn't lear to avoid blind buys, but at least I learned to study in detail what I buy befor purchasing it !! 😉 And what was your worst experience in blind buys ?