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Knock-off perfumes offer the consumer to enjoy their favorite fragrance without having to pay a lot of money for it. But, there are consumers who don't want fake perfumes and are willing to pay top dollar for genuine best selling perfumes. Whether you are buying online or in a physical perfume shop, it is getting hard to tell what is real and what is imitation. If you are not interested in buying a knock-off perfume or cologne, here are seven guidelines that will let you know if your purchase is real or a phony.
1. If a fragrance is a knock-off, it is not going to smell the same as the designer brand and the scent will evaporate in under two hours. If you suspect you have been tricked into buying a cheap imitation fragrance, take a trip down to your neighborhood department store and compare the two.
2. The box should not be flimsy and made of cheap materials and the colors should not show any variation. Genuine fragrances are packaged in high caliber materials to not only protect the product during shipping but to convey to the consumer; they are getting the best. If the packaging looks like it is made of low quality, the product inside the box may be of low quality as well, and the greater the chance of it being an imposter fragrance.
3. An ABN# should be on the bottle and the box; There should be no difference in the numbers because they should match. Manufacturers who are in good business standing have an ABN number.
4. Look at the bottle. The glass should not contain any defects and it should not be of a light weight. The information that is written on the bottle should be without errors and the ink should not have line-breaks or smears. If the letters on the bottle can be easily rubbed off, this is indicative that your perfume or cologne is a fake.
5. The color and consistency of the cologne or perfume should not be separate but even and uniform. Old and cheap imitation perfumes have a tendency to gel at the bottom of the bottle and they have an oily feel on your skin when you rub it on.
6. If you are buying online, make sure the retailer is reputable. They should have a refund policy in place and some sort of guarantee to give their customers some extra assurance when doing business with them. Check to see if they are PayPal verified (especially for you are shopping on Ebay). Counterfeiters who are operating under suspicious circumstances will not be able to be verified by reputable financial institutions.
7. That old saying holds true, "If it is too good to be true, it probably is." If the price for a designer fragrance is remarkably cheap, the fragrance could be a fake. To keep their inventory at a certain level, online discounters sometimes do sell genuine fragrances for 50%-60% below the retail price. You are taking a gamble of buying an imitation fragrance if the mark down is higher than this.
Armed with the right information, buying designer fragrances online doesn't have to be risky. These seven tips should prevent you from getting stuck with an unwanted knock-off.
