Perfume Online

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The perfume online retail business is booming. A simple Internet search will turn up hundreds of thousands of online stores selling perfume – all at a discount. Thus, the challenge in finding perfume online is not in actually locating fragrance for sale, but narrowing down the selection.

Top Perfume Online Retailers

The most popular online perfume businesses have the largest inventory, strong customer service and the best prices. Feel free to add your favorites here, but the ones we found were the following:

Sentiments.comAffordable Fragrances Online

  • Offers men’s and women’s fragrances, gifts, miniatures, and skincare items
  • Can search by product name or browse alphabetically
  • Provides extra reduced pricing through their clearance area
  • Includes monthly specials in their Great Deals
  • A special section highlights their newest items
  • Provides a separate blog for perfume related events, market information, news and stories
  • Encourages you to ask their “Fragrance Guru” questions and answers them personally to your email address
  • Bizrate.com Award Winner for the last five years
  • VeriSign Secure Ordering

FragranceNet.com100% Genuine Brands

  • Offers men’s and women’s fragrances, gift sets, skincare, hair care, aromatherapy and candles
  • Free shipping on orders over $60
  • Over 8,000 brand name products available
  • Founded in 1997
  • A featured collections area providing information on New Arrivals, Gifts Under $25, For Kids Only and Hard to Find Scents
  • Presents a Reminder Club that will help you remember special events and birthdays with an email reminder
  • Sells online gift certificates
  • Highlights the new arrivals and bestsellers for each category
  • Provides a clearance outlet
  • Send in a request for selected items, if you cannot find them on the site

FragranceX.comAmerica’s Largest Fragrance Outlet

  • Offers men’s and women’s fragrances, skincare, and makeup
  • Can order online or call their customer service directly at 888-55-PERFUME
  • Free shipping on orders over $59
  • 30 day money back guarantee
  • Highlights weekly and daily bestsellers per category
  • Can browse by product type or utilize their search engine
  • Visit the customer testimonials before you buy
  • VeriSign Secured ordering

Perfume.comSmell Your Best for Less

  • Offers men’s and women’s fragrances, gift sets, testers, hair care, skincare, and candles
  • Includes rotating specials and coupons
  • Gift Certificates are available
  • Register on the site for regular email specials and beauty tips
  • Permits a quick link to an instant RSS Feed
  • Can search alphabetically or with their Quick Search function
  • Highlights popular products
  • A special search features allows you to search for fragrances by their notes and scents

BeautyBay.comFormerly FragranceBay.com

  • Offers men’s and women’s fragrances, skincare, hair care, cosmetics, jewelry and accessories
  • Advertised as one of the most popular websites for branded perfume
  • Provides an email newsletter
  • Includes special pricing in their clearance section
  • What’s Hot lists the items most popular
  • Gift section helps you find the perfect present
  • Blame Me service allows you to blame them if you have forgotten someone’s birthday or other special event – they will send them a sorry email blaming them on the late present due to inventory shortages
  • Suggests special tips on using fragrances

Comparison Shop

With so many perfume online retail options, finding the best price on your favorite scent is a dream. For an easy comparison shop experience, visit sites like BizRate.com or Ebay.com to see what some sellers are offering. You can also start an independent search by visiting the above sites or performing a Google search on your favorite perfume name.

To Buy Online or Not

Now that is the question – is it appropriate to buy perfume online or not? Certainly the selection and prices are better online, even beating drugstore prices by as much as 50%. But there is no way to try the scent before you buy online. Until they discover a way to deliver a fragrance through scent-cam, the only true method to try before you buy perfume is to visit an actual storefront.

Ultimately the decision is up to you, but one option is to spend time browsing for your favorite scent in the stores where you can actually try it on and experience the aroma mixed with your body chemistry. Then, once you have found the perfect one, buy it online at the best price. While this will undoubtedly take more time, it is sure to save you money. The online perfume marketplace is a vast bazaar with loads of competition. Perfume online retailers advertise the low overhead that leads to the low pricing. Combine that amidst the large offerings, buying perfume online is sure to lead to a great deal for you.



 


Comments

Hi Perfume,

Did you try the Perfumania site I left for Ida (the comment before your comment, or click the "See All Comments..." button)? If not, let us know what the name of the perfume is and we'll try to find it. Thanks for the post!

-- Contributed by: Jacqueline Dautaj

Thnakypu so much for this post... i was reallly in search of perfume retailer....I have a branded perfume i bought far ago,...Its end now and now i want this again but it is not in the market... can anybody tell me from where i can do shopping.....

-- Contributed by: Perfume

Hi Ida,

Please try [Perfumania]. They have a ton of perfumes and colognes there, plus some that are hard to find. Thanks for the question!

-- Contributed by: Jacqueline Dautaj
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