How to distinguish bogus toilet water from the original

Check certificate

The surest way to find out, keep you in the hands of the original or a fake, - ask the seller certificate, or rather a declaration of conformity, which indicates the manufacturer, distributor, country production. By the way, the declaration of conformity can be found in a single customs register.

In addition, the seller can take the voluntary certification for all types of cosmetics and perfumes.

Buy in the audited stores

If you are in a store to buy the original toilet water several times, it is necessary to maintain this tradition and for a new bottle to go there again. Probably, you will attract others delectable discounts oflayn- and online shops, but the desire to save money can eventually lead you to the disappointment of poor quality product.

If you do decide to ask why the seller demonstrates the attraction of unprecedented generosity, selling perfume in 2-3 times cheaper than in checked the store, never believe the fairy tales like "a customs confiscated" or "this is the same water, but produced under license in the Netherlands" and so Further.

As for the confiscated goods: do you really think that the luxury products manufacturers have admitted that their product did not pass customs? But "production in the Netherlands" or "it directly from the warehouse" - the usual stories of sellers feykovye cosmetics.

A more well-known brands rarely produce probes for the sale, "travel size" and other miniatures. So buying mikroflakona 10-15 ml - it is always the risk of running into fake.

One of the famous brands that produce small bottles, pens, - Salvador Dali. Also in the "handle" you can find Escada, Masaki Matsushima and even some brands, but you need to be an expert or scrutinize a particular scented water and the manufacturer to identify the fake in front of you or not.

consider packing

If you just can not muster the courage to ask for a certificate in the store or perfume you gave, therefore, have to rely on other attributes. Let's start with the outer cardboard packaging. It should look attractive and expensive. You should be nice to keep it in your hands.

Cardboard must be sufficiently dense, pleasant colors, lettering - clear, easy to read. The vial should not be hanging out inside the box.

If the package is wrapped in plastic, then it must also deliver tactile pleasure: to be thin, tight-fitting to the box. The edges of the film must be sealed, not glued rude. Such a package, of course, the ideal:

The most common case looks something like the following picture. Packed carefully, though the film is torn at the bottom and the box a little deformed, because to put in protective sticker with a bar code.

Some manufacturers do not use polyethylene, but distributors or employees of the store yourself wrapped boxes, so they did not lose a trade dress. Such a package may not look very presentable. If you have something embarrassing, ask the seller, where and when the product was packed in foil.

Not bad on the manufacturer's website to find out how to look bottle and carton. However, there may be ambiguous situations. For example, in the official Gucci store is not available Flora by Gucci Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Toilette 30 ml in volume, but in stores it occurs. Through some research, I discovered that a bottle of this volume went before, just in a different box, but this year all the toilet waters of the series came in boxes with a floral print. Perhaps this limited edition, dedicated to the anniversary: ​​this year, the well-known pattern of Flora by Gucci is 50 years old.

At my request from the company P & G said that the store where I saw the toilet water, all products are official and Gucci store's website is not updated as often as we would like. Well, even the well-known brands are flaws.

The box must be present so-called batch code: numbers or letters and numbers, as it were embedded in the cardboard. Exactly the same code should be on the bottle! It can be written directly on the bottle or on the label. Deciphering the batch code with the help of a special service, you will know the date of manufacture of toilet water.

Batch code can be deciphered online Checkfresh.com.

Butch code is not always at the bottom of the vial.

Explore the barcode and information about the manufacturer

In fact, it is very confusing and ambiguous approach - to try to identify by barcode, fake it or not. It would seem that everything is very simple: it is written Made in France, hence the bar code should be determined by the same country. But no, the bar code often does not coincide with what is indicated on the box, for example, because the factory is located in one country and the headquarters of the manufacturer - in the other. And in the barcode contains the country location is the headquarters.

Here is a concrete example. Toilet water Flora by Gucci Gorgeous Gardenia. On the box is written: Made in France, P & G Prestige Beauté Geneva, London EC1A 4DD, UK. Based on the barcode, the country of origin - the United States.

A sticker in Russian says that the factory is located in France.

And how does this all lead to a common denominator? Where eventually produced toilet water? And what have the general producer of detergents?

And the bottom line is this: eau de toilette Gucci (like many other perfumes luxury) is now producing P & G Prestige Beauté - a subsidiary of the giant Procter & Gamble. The head office P & G is located in Cincinnati (USA). That's what tells a unified information system of global register GEPIR this barcode:

Brand Giorgio Beverly Hills was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1994, so far everything converges. Of course, P & G Prestige Beauté many factories in different parts of the world, and one of them is in France, where, according to the inscription on the box and the declaration of conformity, and produced toilet water.

So do not rush to call the seller a fraud if the specified country of production does not coincide with a bar code, first try to understand what's what.

A curious discovery app for iPhone ScanWhich I use for a hundred years, not only reads the QR-code, but also barcodes, and shows a page with the product. In this application, I have determined even the bar code, which I could not find in the register GEPIR (this also sometimes happens).

Eau de Toilette Gucci, which became the object of my thorough research, is shown in the photo back in the old packaging.

consider a bottle

Glass vials must be of high quality, free of bubbles and other imperfections within. If the bottle color, then it should not be painted on the outside, that is, the ink must not sprinkle or rub off. The cap must be sufficiently weighty and close the bottle tightly so that it was possible even to raise his cap.

The tube should be almost invisible, it should only appear when the liquid leaves. The base of the spray gun must not be scrolled.

Shake the bottle. Bubbles in the quality of toilet water will dissolve within 10-15 seconds, poor disappear instantly.

perfume color should not be too bright. His, by the way, too, can be viewed on the manufacturer's website. And if you constantly use this toilet water, you represent, what color it is. Eau de parfum and eau de toilette the same series can vary in color.

Rate flavor

The right perfume or scented water gradually revealed. Top notes - for 15 minutes, then the middle notes, and a few hours - plume. There are no fakes full flavor disclosure.

Another important indicator - aroma durability. Perfume is 5-10 hours, for Eau de Parfum - 4-8 hours for toilet water - 2-4 hours.

So let's put all on the shelves.

What to do if you decide to buy toilet water

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Go to a certified or a large and famous shop. Small shops and online stores can donate reputation for profit or because of lack of experience, face a dishonest supplier.

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Selecting scented water, inspect the packaging carefully. No Does it have flaws, whether you feel that you are holding a really high-quality product.

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Take a picture of the box to the house to examine the barcode, batch code and manufacturer information. Ask the store to show a declaration of conformity.

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Apply fragrance on the strip tester and on the wrist. Vote top notes, 15 minutes - the average, in a few hours - plume flavor. Fragrance on your skin will not be disclosed as on paper, so be sure to revile him a few hours for yourself to understand how it is stable and suitable to your.

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Take a look at the website of the brand, look, the look of the box and bottle.

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After purchasing the perfume print them near the cash register. Inspect the bottle: the glass must be free of defects, letters and inscriptions must be clear, easy to read, paint should not be erased. Consider the cap, it must be a heavy, tightly lapped to the bottle neck. Make sure that the box and the bottle indicated the same batch codes, read all the inscriptions on the bottle.

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The liquid should be no precipitate, not too bright color. The vial should not be poured to the brim! Vials with "shoulders" liquid is poured to the "coat hanger" other form in vials should remain airspace volume of not more than 4% from the bottle capacity.

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The lower part of the sprayer should not rotate, tube should be almost invisible. Pshiknite several times to check that the spray works. By the way, the first few zilch can be "blank", that's fine. Make sure that this is the fragrance that you have tried out the bottle tester.

If everything indicates that in front of you real perfume or toilet water, but you still somehow not releases a feeling of distrust, you can always give them away for examination and to confirm or deny their assumptions.

It is very interesting to hear your stories on the topic of fakes. Do you have your ways of determining the original perfume? Let's share the knowledge. :)