As anyone who buys perfume will know, it is very expensive stuff. Even at the cheaper end of the market, prices can be surprisingly high. As anyone who wears perfume will know, you’re never quite sure how a fragrance product is going smell on your skin until you’ve tried it. Perfumes work with your individual body chemistry to create your own unique smell and since everyone is different, there is no way of knowing how your skin will react to it. This means that when someone else is wearing a nice perfume that you like the smell of, you still can’t be 100% certain that it will smell just as nice on your skin. This presents perfume manufacturers with a problem. Who is going to want to spend £50 say, on a bottle of perfume that may turn out to smell like toilet cleaner on them because of the way it reacts to them individually?
The answer is simple. Provide perfume samples so that customers can ‘try before they buy’. This is why shops that sell perfumes almost invariably provide ‘tester’ bottles of all their different fragrances, so that you may try some on your skin before you make a commitment to buy the full product. Whilst it’s great to walk into a shop and sample different scents, perfume also needs time to settle on the skin to bring out its true fragrance, the one that you are left with after that first intense burst of scent. This means that you need to test just one at a time and let it sit on your skin for at least half an hour, which may not be convenient when you have a dozen other shops to visit and your car parking meter is about to run out.
It’s possible though, to try perfumes at home without ever going into a department store or perfume shop, giving you time to evaluate each at your own pace, allowing you to decide which which fragrance you wish to buy before you get to the shops. Testing in this way helps to avoid expensive purchasing mistakes, impulse buying and is especially handy if you want to test perfumes at before ordering online. Freestuff.me publishes details of all the perfume samples we find that are available on the internet in our Free Make-up and Beauty Samples category. You simply follow our link to the promoter’s website and follow their instructions to request your samples, which can be sent to your home address.
There are two formats in which perfume samples commonly arrive: postcard and tester bottles. The postcard type is literally a postcard, with a little piece of foil to peel back, revealing a small area of cloth that has been impregnated with fragrance. Simply wipe this over your skin to test the product. Tester bottles are usually tiny glass vials with enough perfume in for two or three uses, so if you test it and like it, you get to wear it a few times before having to buy the full product. Sometimes we strike really lucky and find a sample that is a tiny replica bottle of the full-sized product and these tend to contain even more, perhaps five or six uses.
Everyone likes to smell wonderful and Freestuff.me can help you do that. Just keep an eye on our website for new samples.