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At The Perfume Shop, we pride ourselves on our perfume expertise! If there’s something to know about fragrances, we know it, and we’re sharing our knowledge and insider tips with you right here.

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How to buy fragrance online when you can’t test it

Scent shopping online? Welcome to our stress-free guide to make sure you come up smelling of roses...

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07.05.2021

Common perfume ingredients explained

Understand what's housed in your fave fragrance with our list of the 5 most common ingredients found in perfumes.

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07.05.2021

The most common perfume mistakes people make

We love perfume and know you do to. So here are the most common mistakes people make. You'll be thanking us later!

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04.03.2021

Classic perfumes of the 50s, 60s and 70s

Nostalgia is a wonderful feeling, especially when it’s connected to fragrance! That oh-so-familiar, warm and fuzzy feeling when you come across a scent that conjures up long lost fond memories. ...

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22.02.2021

A beginner’s guide to fragrance families

Do you know your fruity perfumes from your floral? Or your citrus aftershaves from your woody? Whatever your fragrance know-how, the key to understanding why one scent may differ from the other is by ...

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17.12.2020

The Perfume Shop Perfume Predictions

Welcome to The Perfume Shop’s Perfume Predictions 2020 edition. It goes without saying that this year has been unlike any other, and so much has changed since the last Perfume Predictions was pu...

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20.11.2020

How to preserve your open perfume and stop it going off

While you might be checking the expiry date on your milk cartons or storing raw chicken in your freezer so it keeps, you might not think your perfume can ever go off. Sadly, this isn’t the case ...

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20.04.2020

Vintage perfumes: scents from the 20s, 30s and 40s

  Vintage perfume, or a classic perfume, may be a term you hear quite frequently, but there are only a select few which truly deserve a title of this magnitude! Today, we’re taking a trip d...

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What is anosmia?

  Our sense of smell is quite simply the unsung hero of all the senses. Smells have that uncanny ability to conjure up long-lost memories from the darkest corners of our minds. Our sense of smell...

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