How to Tell if a Perfume Is Original: Box and Batch Code
A short guide to the checks any buyer can make: the name, concentration and volume on the box, the batch code, and the questions to put to a seller.
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Notes on niche perfume
Guides and background on perfume houses, notes and how to choose and wear a perfume.
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Blue Talisman EDP vs Extrait: What Changes
Blue Talisman EDP vs Extrait is mostly a question of notes: the Eau de Parfum is airy pear, ginger and woods, the Extrait a warm floral on vanilla and sandalwood....
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Sospiro Vibrato Notes: Scent, Structure and Who It Suits
A close reading of the Sospiro Vibrato notes as the house publishes them: how the scent moves, who it suits and which Sospiro perfumes share some of its notes.
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Mind Games Lionora vs Queening: How They Differ
Two Mind Games extraits compared by the house's own facts: a fruity floral with apricot skin and a gourmand amber with rum and whipped vanilla. It names no winner and...
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Why Is Perfume So Expensive? What Niche Houses Pay For
A plain look at why perfume is so expensive, using the cost drivers that houses state themselves: oil share, ageing, named raw materials, glass and creative time.
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Which Perfume Suits Me? Find a Signature Scent
Five steps lead from what you already like to a short list of perfumes, with one niche perfume for each scent family as an example.
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Best Oud Perfume: Seven Ways a Perfumer Uses Oud
There is no single best oud perfume, only different partners for the same dark wood. Seven niche perfumes show how fruit, spice, flowers, leather and resin change what oud does.
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Sillage Meaning: Projection and Trail in Perfume
Sillage is the trail a perfume leaves as you move, and projection is how far it reaches. This guide explains both, what shapes them and how six perfumes in our...
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Most Complimented Perfume: What Makes a Scent Noticed
No perfume can promise compliments, but some qualities usually make a scent easier to notice and to like. This article sets them out and shows six perfumes with those qualities...
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Matière Première Vanilla Powder Notes and Character
Matière Première Vanilla Powder lists four notes without a pyramid: Madagascar vanilla, palo santo, coconut powder and white musks. Here is how they add up, who the perfume suits and...
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Green Perfume: Herbs, Leaves, Tea and Moss in Niche
Green perfume is made from herbs, leaves, tea, moss and roots instead of flowers or sugar. This guide sorts eight niche perfumes from our aromatic range by what is green...
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Santal 33 vs Another 13: How They Differ
Santal 33 vs Another 13 is smoky wood against a quiet musk. Here are the two Le Labo Eau de Parfums side by side, from notes to season, with no...
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From the house of FragranceGems
The niche department of FragranceGems
NicheGems is part of FragranceGems B.V. in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Original perfumes from niche houses, handled by the same team that looks after every FragranceGems order.
Reviews of FragranceGems, the shop behind NicheGems
- Original perfumes, new and in original packaging
- Packed with care in the Netherlands
- Customer service by the FragranceGems team