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Top Rated Eyeshadow. I've never felt so ill from a perfume in my life, and I'm afraid to wear the jacket I had on that day. I love this. It doesn't last long but I don't care.

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Most Viewed Women's Fragrance Products. Chance Eau de Parfum reviews. Coco Mademoiselle Eau de Parfum Intense reviews. If MakeupAlley decides to limit swapping, I suppose people can use their Notepads in a similar fashion.

And apologies, but no review today. I started a review of Jean Paul Gaultier's Classique over the weekend, and still haven't managed to finish it. Note: image entirely unrelated to the post, but at least it is cheerful via Couleur Parfum. Leave a comment , or read more about commenting at Now Smell This. Here's our privacy policy , and a handy emoticon chart. Can someone explain this to me in a nutshell? The forums at Makeup Alley are just too frustrating to read—you have to click on each individual reply in return instead of having them all concatenated as happens here —and the forums on Basenotes don't have much information.

I don't understand how such a thing can even be banned, anyway. Say I was into to grab a random expensive example jewelry-making. Say I bought a pound of Swarovski crystals, knowing I'd never be able to use them all up, and then swapped or sold a few one-ounce bags to like-minded jewelry-makers. Is that wrong? Am I depriving Swarovski of sales?

After I've bought the package, do I not own them and have the right to dispose of them as I wish? Is it pressure from the companies that sell fragrances? Do they feel they're losing sales? Do they not understand that people who are passionately devoted to scents want small quantities of a scent before they invest in a larger bottle, and love companies that make this possible?

Whatever it is, it's infuriating. It makes me want to start selling and swapping decants, just to piss them off. I grew to find the whole thing disspiriting and overly complicated… Like P above, I have a hard time understanding how this is legal, and assume it must be due to pressure from the fragrance companies.

Don't they know that they release such an ever-growing amount of crap each year that we have to do some serious weeding?

I dont' think that is a good analogy, in fact, there aren't a lot of good analogies for perfume. When you decant, say, Chanel no. The buyer might in fact get something that really isn't exactly like Chanel no.

So it isn't about lost sales per se, at least not to my mind. To go back to your Swarovski post, it is different because if you sell the beads, they will not be altered in any way. Don't get me wrong: I love being able to buy decants! But I can understand why perfume houses would like to see the practice stop. By the way: to see all posts on a thread at MUA, click on the little perfume bottle icon at the top left of the individual thread! Surely MUA won't limit swapping?

How can it, anyway — short of driving people to swap their 'real' email addresses and carry on that way? Robin, when you buy something it is your personal property. I see your argument as to the fact it may be tweaked, damaged, etc. They don't take any action against IFRA, but they stomp the many very well-respected, respectful, conscientious decanters who actually may be building up future purchases for them.

And is there a thread that explains what we are supposed to do about discontinued scents? Thanks, R! Please note that I was just using Chanel as an example — I have no idea which companies are behind the Ebay decision! Musicians are losing money when their songs are downloaded or copied from someone elses recordings of their music.

Perfumers are not losing money or integrity by allowing honest customers to delve out their already paid for purchases however they see fit.

If you were buying a bottle of perfume, making a copy of it, and then selling decants of the copy, the music downloads argument would be legitimate. I was not comparing perfume to music, only saying that the law does not always favor the notion that when you buy something, it is yours to do with as you please. Tis a shame. I found the BN wardrobe section to be awful to navigate and swap through, most people don't keep it updated, though that may change now. I will be thrilled if some of the sellers continue to sell at their own ecommerce sites, but can't see how any of them can take the legal risk.

Grant has just posted at Basenotes that he is doing what he is doing because he doesn't have the financial resources to risk a legal battle — you can see his post here:.

I don't see what is to stop MUA if that is what they decide. I'm lighting another candle, LOL…. Okay, taking a different tack here. I buy decants but don't sell. I have never, to the best of my knowledge, gotten a bad sample. And they wring their stupid hands and allow people to post long articles about how to one hopes avoid fakes — but frankly I don't see eBay doing much about all the obvious counterfeiters and Chanel products would be an excellent example there.

So why pick on the decanters? Because it's small? The manufacturers? Why not ban all sales of designer goods while they're at it, if they're so interested in protecting buyers?

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