About

The Perfumerie is a group of scent aficionados, based in Paris and London collecting a scent archive of professional perfumes.

We are super-sophisticated scent enthusiasts—the type who rhapsodize about oakmoss, share memories of their first-ever whiff of Opium, and weigh the merits of the latest niche eau to flare the blogosphere's collective nostrils.

We aim to offer perfume enthusiasts the smorgasbord of decanted luxury fragrance samples to allow you to experience the full life cycle of a fragrance, to live through its beauty, before you decide on the full product.

Neurologist Alan Hirsch, MD, director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, says that there's a close correlation between what you smell and the way you feel. "The reason scent is so intricately related to happiness is because the part of the brain that smells, or the olfactory lobe, is actually part of the limbic system, or the emotional brain," he says. "You smell something and immediately react to it, and then you figure out whether it's a rose or a lilac or whatever. Smell is the quickest way to change someone's mood or behavior, because it happens totally independently of thought." The scent of lavender, for example, has a calming effect, while vanilla, oddly, that smell of innocence and baking, has been found to be sexually arousing. Jasmine, according to three separate studies—the first on mice, the second two on humans, including baseball players—can have as profound a calming effect as Valium and can dramatically improve hand-eye coordination.

The sharp delight of smelling something glorious lasts only a few seconds before the nose gets accustomed to the scent, so it becomes a bit like chasing a ghost.

It's not sufficient to try a fragrance in the store, you need time to assimilate it, feel the dry-down, experience it in the activities of your everyday life.

We are here to help guide you to your favorite fragrance collection by offering the product (yes, I guess one could say we are marketing the fragrances for the brands without costing them anything!), just perfect in size, to give you the time to enjoy the depth and geniality of a fragrance.

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All products we sell through this site are decanted from the original product and repackaged. This means you get a used sample of the product without the original bottle. The repackaging has no resemblance of the original product. You will also receive a 3ml luxury fragrance sample for free with your order.

Should you decide to purchase the full bottle, we encourage you to complete your purchase at the original retail store where the product is sold for the best and highest quality fragrance experience.