Any way to spot a fraudulent frag?

[MikeNYC]

The experience was very pleasant and I had the new bottle in 2 days from Creed USA, and a Mens sample box of all their popular fragrances which usually sells for around $35.

Can you please inform where can one get Creed's sample box?

[Crag]

Can you please inform where can one get Creed's sample box?

http://www.parfumsraffy.com/creedsampleset.html will give you one with any Creed order you place.

Here is what each set has in it.

Creed Unisex Fragrances: Virgin Island Water, Himalaya, Millesime Imperial, Silver Mountain Water, Royal Water, Royal Scottish Lavender, Santal Imperial, Acier Aluminum, Ambre Canelle, Chevrefeuille Original, Royal Delight, Zeste Mandarine Pamplemousse, Erolfa

Creed Women's Fragrances: Spring Flower, Fleurissimo, Tubereuse Indiana, 2000 Fleurs, Fleur de Bulgarie, Jasmal, Fantasia de Fleurs, Irisia, Vanisia, Jasmine Imperatrice Eugenie

Creed Men's Fragrances: Green Irish Tweed, Cypres Musc, Bois de Portugal, Bois de Cedrat, Vetiver, Baie de Genievre, Epicea, Orange Spice

Creed Private Selection Fragrances: Private Tabarome, Cuir de Russie, Selection Verte, Fleurs de The Rose Bulgarie, Aubepine Acacia, Angelique Encens, Cypres Musc

Questions? Please feel free to call us at 818-708-1186. Call them and see if they are willing to sell them outright.

You can also buy one direct from Creed USA or Creed UK...

[moses]

Matt, thanks for the link.

And #%$$#%$#^ I didn't realize how much Creed costs. CURSES to my newfound addiction to Green Irish Tweed, thanks to the decant club.

-Mo

[Daves]

Fake perfume is a real problem. Last Christmas my b-in-law gave my mother a big bottle of Chanel Coco he had bought on the internet. She finally opened it in June and aagh! It was terrible, disgusting stuff. My b-in-law quickly replaced it. Be careful!

[Thomas]

With this information over coffee I enquired of my 'contact' exactly how they could be so close. What he told me was interesting. The perfume 'knock-off' business is HUGE. It is directly run by big criminal gangs, just like the drug distribution business. They have extremely talented chemists who work out the scent formulations, and then they have people who used to forge currencies work out the packaging details (which is somewhat easier to forge than money). This attention to detail creates a product which is almost undetectable as a fake except by an expert. As you can imagine this brings in huge sums of money, at a substantially lower risk than currency forgery.

Wow...

As an intellectual exercise, I wonder how much money is to be made by re-visiting old formulations or vintage scents. I hear lamentations here and there about how reformulated scents are 'less' than the originals (I can vouch for Antaeus) and wonder what kind of market there is for that.

One might even garner a premium if one chose to market them separately as a 'niche' identity, which would be less unseemly than direct counterfeiting. Of course it would damage the collectible/vintage scent trade.

Just a thought.