Where To Buy Perfume Samples

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The perfume industry is vast and continues to grow. One of the great things about buying a new fragrance is the availability of samples to try before you buy. We’ve all done it: We purchase perfume because it smells nice on someone else or because the celebrity endorser behind the bottle is one of our favourite actors.

This article is part of a fragrance blog I built myself — I’ll explain how at the end if you’re curious.

We are still very much influenced by our fragrance purchases. Many places offer free or low-cost samples so you can try a fragrance before you commit to buying a bottle.

This excellent idea will save money when buying perfume you may never wear. Everyone’s skin is different, so each fragrance will smell unique on your skin.

Friends, family, or even strangers often comment on our chosen fragrance. They like the scent and may even buy the bottle themselves, only to find it doesn’t smell the same on their skin.

Another expensive bottle of celebrity perfume sits in the wardrobe or on the dressing table. When I was younger, I loved going into perfume stores with my late mum to collect perfume samples. It was a cheap way of having a fragrance every day. Nowadays, perfume samples can be used for so many ideas.

Perfume Samples as Wedding Favours

Are you getting married?

Have you ever considered purchasing a selection of perfume samples for your guests? They’ll love this idea. Using perfume samples as wedding favours has become very popular over the last few years, and they don’t have to cost a fortune.

A great way to thank your wedding guests for attending your special day is to give them a selection of perfume or aftershave samples at the table.

Related Article: Best Perfume For A Wedding Day

Decorative bags and pouches can be bought online from places such as eBay to make the samples look more elegant as a gift.

 Elegant Gold Mesh Favour Bags

 

Rose Organza Bags Wedding Party Favour Gift Candy Jewellery Pouch Large Small-UK

 

 

An Extra Gift For Loved Ones

Another idea for using perfume samples is to add a small gift to a birthday or Christmas present, particularly if you find out what fragrance the person likes, such as floral, woody, citrus, oriental, etc.

You could then choose those fragrance notes as an extra gift to pop inside their gift.

 

 

Enhancing Your Home With Perfume Samples

If you don’t want to wear or give away your perfume samples, there are several options. The potpourri on your kitchen windowsill that has lost its scent can be quickly revived by sprinkling drops of your perfume sample on top.

Take a sample abroad for your holidays. When the airport limits the amount of liquid we can take, a sample bottle is the perfect solution, and you can take a few different scents with you, too.

Add a sample bottle to a spray bottle with a bit of water, then gently spray your car seats to give them a fresh scent when you return to drive. An excellent idea for smelly kitchen bins is to add a few drops to cotton balls and pop them in the bottom of your bin before your liner goes in.

Drawer liners keep our clothes smelling fresh, so why not add a little potpourri to a small pouch bag? Add a few drops of your sample perfume to add a gorgeous fragrance the next time you reach for your smalls. If you use the tumble dryer during the winter months and usually use scented sheets, why not create your own? Add several drops of perfume onto a damp handkerchief and pop it in the dryer. Your wet clothes will come out smelling fresh, clean, scented and dry.

Related Article: Reusing Candle Jars

Where Can You Find Affordable Perfume Samples?

At FM WORLD, perfume samples can be purchased for between 60p ( PURE and PURE ROYAL).

You can purchase a lovely gift box for the Utique range for £26, containing all the Utique samples. Celebrity perfumes inspire all of our fragrance bars in the Utique range.

If, for example, your favourite perfume is La Vie Est Belle by Lancôme, a gorgeous floral and sweet scent, you can purchase a sample of FM 413, with notes very similar to this celebrity perfume, for 60p.

You can read our review of this fragrance here

A Popular Choice Of Fragrance

Thousands of men and women currently wear FM fragrances, which are popular, long-lasting, and affordable—the perfect combination. We all have a different way of thinking when purchasing products. Many prefer to buy the designer range because of the celebrity endorser associated with it. You pay a percentage towards the packaging, the designer bottle, the celebrity endorser, and the TV advert that accompanies it.

FM fragrances were created to give quality perfume that lasts longer than celebrity perfumes and is affordable for any budget. They also created a perfume where you don’t pay for the above external factors. They all contain 20% or 30% pure perfume oil, meaning your fragrance will last around 8 hours with 20% perfume and even longer with 30%.

Quality Samples, Quality Perfumes

Buyers want to pay for quality and do just that at FM. With over 200 fragrances, we are spoilt for choice when choosing one of our favourites. We don’t need to spend £80-£100 on designer fragrances when we can buy a more affordable bottle with similar notes. They are so similar that they smell almost identical.

Pure and Pure Royal Range

 

With such a large selection, the PURE and PURE ROYAL range samples are 1.4ml sample bottles.

The applicator, a plastic wand attached to the lid, applies the sample to your skin. If you require that extra touch, the paper sample holders can be bought separately for 80 pence each.

 

The Utique Range

 

FM WORLD’s Utique range features twelve scents with delightful fragrance notes. Eight of those fragrances (Black, Gold, Ruby, Bubble, Ambre Royal, Ambergris, and Malachite) belong to the Asian family so that you will find floral, woody, spicy, vanilla, and ambergris notes.

Three scents ( Muffin, Flamingo, Violet Oud) are in the flower family, so that you will have fruity, oriental, citrus, woody, and water notes. The last scent (Sexy Cashmere) is in the wood family, with notes of floral, fruity, and oriental. All the perfumes in the Utique range are unisex and contain 20% perfume.

They measure as 2ml samples and come with their paper sample holder. Another elegant way to give as a gift is this collection, which has a spray top for easy application.

BLACK

Type: elegant, sophisticated, mysterious

Fragrance notes:

Head Notes: Woody notes, saffron, styrax

Heart Notes: vetiver, amber, vanilla

Base Notes: leather, sandalwood, amber wood

GOLD

Type: luxurious, exquisite

Head Notes: red pepper, cedarwood, nutmeg

Heart Notes: iris, saffron, vetiver

Base Notes: Cypriot, patchouli, black musk, amber

RUBY

Type: mystery, spiritual

Fragrance notes:

Head Notes: cashmere wood, jasmine,

Heart Notes: vanilla, amber wood, balsamic notes

Base Notes: white oud, black musk, dry wood

MUFFIN

Type: intriguing, noble, unforgettable

Fragrance notes:

Head notes: lemon, rose, saffron

Heart notes: woody notes, peony, Amyris, leather notes

Base notes: amber, oud, vanilla

FLAMINGO

Type: charming, seductive, like a forbidden fruit

Fragrance notes:

Head notes: Rosa Mosqueta, blackberry sorbet, green notes

Heart notes: Damask Rose, jasmine, apricot

Base notes: woody notes, crystal rose chord, musk

BUBBLE

Type: enchanting, delightful

Fragrance Notes

Head: bergamot, cardamom, lime

Heart: Lily of the Valley, jasmine, mint

Base: guaiac wood, musk, cedarwood

AMBRE ROYAL

Type: sensual, charming, with a hint of mystery

Fragrance notes:

Head Notes: bergamot, orange, apple, cinnamon

Heart Notes: clove, tobacco

Base Notes: patchouli, tonka bean, myrrh, musk

VIOLET OUD

Type: sophisticated, stunning

Fragrance Notes: Head notes: rose, suede, safflower

Heart notes: frozen raspberry, wild rose, Cypriot

Base notes: agarwood, white musk, American sweetgum

 How This Blog Was Created

Fragrances With Love started as a personal hobby — sharing my love of perfume, affordable finds, and fragrance trends. I didn’t start with a background in websites, marketing, or blogging.

This site was built by writing about something I genuinely enjoy. I use one platform to host my website, write my blog posts, and learn how to monetise content step by step, all in one place.

If you enjoy writing and have ever thought about starting a blog around something you love, you can see the platform I used to create this site below.

How I Created Fragrances With Love

 

SEXY CASHMERE

Type: uninhibited, ambiguous, triggering desires

Fragrance notes:

Head: plum

Heart: iris, violet, ylang-ylang, cedarwood, patchouli

Base: sandalwood, benzoin resin, vanilla, musk

AMBERGRIS

Type: deep, mysterious, absolute

Head: bergamot, red peppercorn, cumin seeds, cardamom

Heart: wild jasmine, lily of the valley, ylang-ylang

Base: ambergris, tonka bean, labdanum, leather, oak moss, patchouli, musk

 

MALACHITE

Type: enigmatic, thrilling, like the four elements

Fragrance notes:

Head notes: mandarin, bergamot, wallflower, plum, aldehyde notes, blackcurrant, saffron, ivy, peach skin

Base notes: sandalwood, vanilla, moss, Haitian vetiver, patchouli, musk

Other places that sell perfume samples can be found here:

If you have any questions about our samples or want to see the complete list of scents we offer, please get in touch or comment below.

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