3 Tips on Finding Discontinued Perfume

Your scent is your signature.  I prefer not to smell like everyone else. In my personal perfume collection, I have been attracted to the marketing and promotion of many scents that were widely available in drug stores and department stores.  As I matured, I grew to look for the more obscure, exotic and lesser known perfumes. The more obscure and less available the less likely another woman is wearing that scent.  This creates another dilemma.  If a perfume is too obscure it won't stay on the market long.  Next thing you know, you can't find it all.


Here are 3 of my top tips to help you find discontinued and vintage perfumes.

1. Ebay - On Ebay.com, you can find just about anything.  That is good and bad.  The good thing is that it has hundreds of listings of discontinued and vintage perfume.  The bad thing is the seller knows that and may jack the price up due to its limited availability.  I lucked out a few months ago when I bought a lot of six vintage fragrances for a very reasonable price.  At least three of them, I had never even heard of and smelled very vintage and floral and different from the candy-apple-vanilla-floral collage of fragrances that are available now.  There is a richness about a vintage scent due to the age and the time its sat in the bottle that makes it a gem among rocks.

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2. Estate Sales - Go to the right estate sale and you can find really good quality, well preserved vintage and discontinued fragrances.  I like to go to estates in rural areas that get less traffic in order to spend my dollars.  You can find these sales in your local paper as well as on the internet.  Be careful, some sites may require you pay for a list that if you search hard enough is available for free.  Save that money for your next perfume.

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3. Friends and Family - You would be surprised by how much a simple question can get you, "do you want that?" Many people buy perfume or receive it as a gift, wear it once and never open the bottle again.  These people are also your relatives and friends.  Try swapping something of yours for something of theirs.  I have found many a bottle that my aunts or cousins don't use and don't want, and they were more than happy to give it to me.

Three tips you can use to find that long lost scent.  Please feel free to share some of your vintage and discontinued fragrance finding tactics in the comments, I would love to hear about them.