You don’t have to be rich to have a great fragrance wardrobe. You just have to learn what you like, and then budget accordingly.
There are a lot of places online that will sell decants (small samples from a larger bottle) for a small fee. This is a good way to try things that you don’t have normal exposure to without doing a ‘blind buy’ on a full size bottle. Google for decants or scent splits and have a field day!
Scentsplit, Luckyscent, Fragrancesplit, Decantx, Microperfumes and others sell samples. Many will give a coupon for x% off a full bottle purchase thereafter.
Some fragrance houses also sell sample packs of their scents or will make travel size packs for a little more, such as MFK, Killian, Zoologist, Mancerra, etc.
If you live in a large metropolitan area, you may be able to take advantage of a good size retail establishment and try on samples there for nothing but a conversation with a friendly sales agent.
Have fun out there!
Chirping in from the UK, I’ve used Scent Samples a few years ago with great success, although I’ve not used them recently, they do small samples and larger decants…
Anyone else remember the splits board on basenotes? I’ve not been there in donkeys years since the mass exit of nearly all the female members…I got a decant of Frederic Malles Portrait of a Lady from there which I’ve only just finished, good times!
