To spot a fake perfume, do the followings:

• Know the seller: Purchase from reputable online stores or department stores. 
  
• Study the perfume: Research in advance it comes in your hands. 
  
• Pricing: Be wary of very low prices; high-end scents never go on deep discounts. 
  
• Check the wrapping: It must be tight, smooth, and neatly sealed. 
  
• The barcode: It must be on the bottom-back of the box and not the sides. 
  
• Batch number: Check if serial numbers on the box and bottle match. 
  
• High-end glass: High quality glass, well-proportioned caps and accurate detailing. 
  
• Color: Fake scents have abnormal color or have a synthesized and flat smell. 
  
• Smell: If perfume doesn’t have a potent smell, it might be a red flag. 
  
• Grammatical errors: Misspelling, grammatical, or unusual presentation of information.

When you wish to purchase a quality perfume for yourself, you should ensure you get the original product. Purchasing a fake perfume makes you feel cheated and dissatisfied, and it can also harm your health. Most counterfeit perfumes consist of cheap and synthetic chemicals that tend to irritate. The smell is not pleasant at all. In this blog, we will show you how to identify if a perfume is real or fake. 

How to Identify Fake Perfumes

Purchasing the original perfume is worth the amount because they last longer and also emanate a strong fragrance, providing you with an excellent perfume experience. If you are not familiar with perfume, it may be difficult to understand whether a perfume is original or not. Take a glance at these guidelines on how to understand whether a perfume is fake or not.

1. Know The Seller

The best way to avoid buying fake perfume by mistake is to buy from a reliable vendor. There are plenty of reliable stores where you can purchase original perfumes, but there are also plenty of unreliable ones.

Purchasing in Person

Departmental stores are a very safe place to purchase perfume because you get to see the packaging in front of your eyes. There is also the benefit of approaching the shop assistants and having the convenience of returning perfume if it is not original.

Flea markets and swap meets are great places to find bargains, but be careful. Some of the sellers will attempt to shortchange you and sell you a fake perfume with no recourse. It is best to inspect the perfume and its packaging thoroughly before you buy. If you can, obtain the seller's contact information in the event the product is not as you anticipated.

Online Shopping

If you do decide to purchase a perfume online, be sure to search for product reviews and reviews of internet merchants. Be sure to also check whether the merchant offers a return policy and a secure shopping guarantee, and whether the site or listing is spell-checked and free of grammatical errors.

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2. Learn Perfume Before You Buy

Before you purchase perfume online or from any other vendor, you would first like to research the perfume so that you have some idea of what to expect. Check the manufacturer's website and see if they have good information on the package and bottle. You can also go to the department store in the mall so that you can experience how the actual perfumes are packaged.

3. Keep an eye on price

As lovely as it would be to be able to purchase a high-end scent like Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille for under $20, it is probably too good to be true. While price is not necessarily a measure of the quality of the scent, if the item is being discounted to bottom-of-the-bottle prices for the company that it says it is, then it is probably not the full-strength version.

4. Check The Wrapping

Normally, genuine perfumes arrive boxed and with cellophane wrap on the box. The cellophane on the box usually gets wrapped nicely and tightly around the box. If the cellophane is wrapped loosely or poorly, this is a sign of a counterfeit perfume, especially if it's so loose that you can shift the cellophane around the box. If the plastic lid on the box of the perfume is glued with a poorly kept appearance (too much glue, crooked seam, etc), then be careful.

5. Read The Box for Errors

One easy trick to determine if a perfume is a counterfeit is through the packaging. Inspect the packaging very well for misspelling, grammatical, or unusual presentation of information. These flaws are telltale that the perfume could be counterfeit.

6. Check The Packaging

Original packaging is made of a top-grade paperboard that is designed to safeguard the perfume bottle from any form of damage. Inside the box, there must be a special design that keeps the perfume bottle in place. You also have to check for a barcode on the packaging. Without any barcode on the packaging, the perfume is fake.

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How do I know if my perfume barcode is genuine?

To know if the barcode on your perfume is genuine, you should check if it is on the bottom back of the box. If it is elsewhere, like on the sides of the box, then it might be a fake perfume.

7. Check The Numbers

Authentic perfumes will contain a serial, batch, and control number on the packaging. The numbers assist in guaranteeing whether the perfume is authentic. If unsure, request the manufacturer to verify whether the numbers correspond to their production records. 

8. Bottle Quality 

Another great way on how to identify fake perfume is by the state of the perfume bottle, since a designer perfume views the bottle as part of the perfume experience. A real perfume bottle will have smooth bottles made of quality glass material and spill-proof caps that are well-balanced (unless otherwise designed). A fake perfume bottle will be rough or poorly made using low-quality materials such as plastic and can have an unbalanced perfume cap.

9. Perfume Color 

A designer company does not add much color to their perfume bottles. If the perfume appears very dark or the liquid has a peculiar chemical color, this might be an indicator of a counterfeit perfume. If you are still not sure, compare it to a perfume you would purchase at a high-end department store. 

10. Perfume 

A Complex woman smelling perfume If you are not familiar with perfumes, this step might be difficult to recognize, but a genuine perfume has a rich and well-composed fragrance. If you are well-versed in perfume and have a familiarity with a particular one, then smelling it can help you to detect an imitation.