I feel blind buys are just exciting, every time i promise myself I will not do it again... But i love the feeling of that surprise....

Biggest beginner mistake I've made so far: blind buying a big bottle of a perfume I've only heard about because it's on sale and it has one note I like. I bought a $40 3oz bottle of Prada Candy Night for the chocolate note, got it and was so excited for my first designer perfume, come to find out it smells like baby powder and stale Hershey's kisses on my skin with a very slight cat pee smell. My rule now is I have to finish a full sample vial or travel size before I buy a full bottle of anything.

Great video ! Thank you ! This is what I've learned in my fragrance journey : 1. Don't blind buy ! Always sample it first ! Even if it's overhyped it doesn't mean that is going to work on your skin. You also need to test the longevity, the dry down, the sillage and so on. 2. It's okay to not love a overhyped perfume. Not because everyone seems to love it that you will. If you don't love it ... Thank you ,next ! 3. Don't look for a perfect scent ! It doesn't exist. Perfume is a journey , many scents to discover. Just own the journey and don't look for THE one that is going to end it. Not going to happen.

These are ALL great tips!! I also love how you gave examples of how you, yourself have made these mistakes making it more relatable. I’ve definitely made most of these myself 🤣😶

OMG! Apart from Number 1 I’ve made all of these mistakes. Where was this video 2 years ago when I started my perfume journey/obsession.😂 Loved this video. ❤️

Great tips! I started my journey with ordering for almost 200eu on samples from all the most hyped fragrances and realized at least 50% smelled too synthetic, basic or not my style. I did learn more about what notes I like but wish I didn't go crazy like that 😂.

I made a lot of these mistakes. I almost blind bought BR540 and I am so relieved I came to my senses and decided to buy Burberry Her first to see if I liked that kind or type of scent. Peeuoo! What a relief, because I'm sorry to all the people who love that perfume, but it stinks!

Great video!! I’ve made some of those mistakes in the past but after blind buying a lot of perfumes I don’t really love I now try something many times before buying. Unfortunately where I live we can’t even touch perfumes in the stores, and when I ask to try on skin they do one spray so far from my arm the perfume barely gets on my skin 🙄 gotta buy samples to know how something actually smells on me

When I was watching this my husband said "I like her" 🤣 he was happy to hear someone not enabling my blind buying obsession.

Your eyebrows look nice and natural and it really compliments you ❤

Gabz we need a full perfume collection video 🥺❤️

You make a lot of sense you’re basically saying what I’ve been thinking. Thank you

Just what I had to hear after hopping between so many affordable ones and not being able to find my dream fragrance! Definitely needed this!! Thank you Gabby!

Your best video yet Gabby.....I feel like you are really taking care of all of us with your advice. Thank you!!

Absolutely 💯 on your advise re samples! I wish I had sampled more instead of blind buying full bottles based on reviews. Or buy a DUPE - and if you like it and use it all up, then buy the original. Sometimes, we like a scent at first, but then decide that we don't need a full bottle of the original.

Thanks for keeping it real. Great advice! 👏

These are such good tips💖 thank you!

This was very useful as a beginner! I struggle because I only really have the option of blind buying or paying $30+ for samples plus shipping, because I live in small town NZ, and we don’t have stores we can try a lot of fragrances

Love u and love how honest u r

Good sensible advice! Thank you, Gabby!

loved this video, thank you!

Thank you! Great advice! 😍

Maybe we just need an extra room in the house just for the perfumes 😂🌸

Amazing tips, thank you so much!

Absolutely enjoyed this video.

This video has really helped me.

Best advice ever. I am slowly growing my collection. I do try to sample as much as I can, but also rely on recommendations from you'll based on the 'perfume family'. I am a gourmand lover, i know i love vannila/coffee/chocolate/creamy type notes. If this type scent is on your top 10 list, and 3 or 4 other KZfaqrs I follow, it definitely peaks my interest. That's why I so love when you describe them in detail, I literary know that am gonna love it or not. Honestly, I've been lucky so far I guess. Haven't liked only 1 or 2 of the maybe 24 I've bought in the last 3 months. So yah, baby steps but so enjoying this journey. If I can get a 10mls first, I always do. It's funny you mention Alien, I've had a 10ml travel spray for over 2 years, still fail to reach for it even though it's super hyped on KZfaq. 🥰

I 100% agree with you Gabby.

I’ve been collecting perfume for years now and I’ll come back here to hear this when I feel like blind buying 😂😂💕💕💕 because these are things I know but I NeED this reminder!!! Thank you!!!!’ 🙏🏼🙏🏼

I love your voice!! Just subscribed

I definetly needed that video 😅👌

Loved this video!

You look so beautiful!

Dear Gabby, thank you for making this video. Very excellent point of view and I enjoy listening to it. At some point while listening to it, I was laughing, very entertaining, very amusing.... I really like this video.👍🏼💐

As a perfume lover I’ve found myself not liking a scent enough to wear it but I can’t declutter it because it takes me on a journey. Scents just make me travel through time and places, and sometimes that’s enough for me. Just smelling it out of the bottle and appreciating its beauty. So I guess it all depends on what are your intentions when buying fragrance. 😊

What a great video!!! Thank you

I think you are just super cute, and your advice makes a lot of sense 🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍

Very informative and helpful, thank you

Great video Gabby thank you❤

This video is great! I’m making all these mistakes!! But how to stop?!! Love it!!

Not to mention employees are always pushing the popular ones on you, I have a very unique nose and a curated collection of 15 perfumes. I buy what I like, not what everyone likes. Although I did buy delina exclusif, because it’s the most feminine perfume on the market and I have nothing and can’t find nothing that smells that girly feminine.

also, do not test multiple perfumes on the skin at once…

Amazing 😻 tips Gabby 🤝

Just found you by accident, you're fantastic, and your mannerisms are adorable, keep up the good work.

That was a good video, thanks !

I made almost every mistake and you are right with everything. 👍🏻

Very good advice 👌 👍 👏

Great advices!! ☺️👏👏👏 I made all og these mistakes 😂😅

I love blind buying perfumes. I don't see anything wrong w it because if I end up not liking it, I can sell it easily on Mercari.

I almost bought roses vanille by mancera just because everyone was saying it is a beautiful jammy caramel rose scent. I am a sucker for roses and I love smelling decadent. Luckily I discovered Zara at the right time and i tried their rose gourmand. As far as I have heard rose gourmand is like 99% dupe for roses vanille for just 1/4 of their price. The moment I tried it on my skin, it was choking. I am a heavy sprayer, but I only sprayed the scent once to try it out and it was literally burning my nose. Yes, there is the rose. Yes, I can smell the caramel and vanilla. But no, I cannot stand the scent. It may be beautiful to some but not for me. I was just lucky I didn't pay the full price for mancera.

To make a long video short just tell these followers to stop buying perfumes because they see others with it. That’s all that’s on KZfaq now is a bunch of women with the same repetitive perfumes claiming how much they love them and the ones who run out of content so they just start buying any and every perfume they can find. Sarah Mayes and vallivon are good for doing that.

200+ bottles and I need to reevaluate at this point. I’ve stopped buying all the lesser expensive perfumes for the most part. These include what some would consider expensive. But I know what I love, and the rest just sit there - so why? Might as well get the $400 bottle that I love than 4 - $100 bottles that are just ok. JMHO, and maybe that doesn’t work for everyone and their situation.

Great advice

Thats why I love you Gabby! Alien and Mademoiselle aren't for me either. I feel like the lone wolf 😂

Guerlain art et la matière, spiritueuse double vanille, angelique noire, tonka imperiale. KZfaqrs tanziana perfumes and many more, when I go to saks to try them. I couldn’t believe what people are hyping up.

You know that saying you gotta learn the hard way lol I actually think the old cheap perfumes I have from the 80s last way longer than all these niche and ridiculously overpriced ones do! Perfume is so personal and intimate it is also the endless search for the perfect match❤️

Very educational video 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻love from Iran 🇮🇷

I love how u explained the niche .I'm currently wanting to try m. Micallef yang in gold but all I can find is a site that decants in sample size .

Great advice 👍 I'm guilty on the blind buying because it's Pandemic *not a reason*, buying cheapies that sounds great, buying overhyped perfumes *several bottles I don't know what to do with*. On the online legit stores, I've been comparing with some store rates and duty free, may differ on where the stores and the duty free are located. Some of the prices can be higher or just the same on the online sites. I found that some popular designer are even more expensive on online shops supposed to be affordable, esp if you include the shipping cost, than duty free or some good priced shop where you are.

You should make a video on how to test perfumes (ie, sillage, dry down, etc)

Another one, if you are interested into a scent try ALWAYS the original, dupes are great to understand the vibe but they are not the same. It happened to me to buy a dupe, use it for some time, then get tired of it and when you go back to the original you asssociate the "fatigue" for the dupe with the other one. Sometimes the note you dont like anymore in the dupe are not even pesent in the original one but its the full smell that you end up linking feelings to... This happened a little bit to me with Meliora (amethyst) and Baccarat rouge

Great video. Just a comment about the last tip: some of us live in countries where we can't receive shipping from those american "grey market" sites. So we have to buy full price and the only alternative are partial bottles.

Blind buying is addictive,like gambling…it’s the rush and excitement…guilty😬

Thankew

I have started avoiding the overhyped perfumes 😂 Saving my coin and testing perfumes in my local dept stores ❤️ Cheap perfumes mostly have weak projection and poor lasting power - the only cheap/celebrity perfume that was beast mode on me was Wonderstruck Enchanted and it was such a lovely scent. That was a few years ago.

People who tend to spend too much on perfume are ALSO scared to use their perfume lol buy what YOU love cheap or expensive

So true on point number 1.. but too late for me ☺😊😬.

Very good buying tips, girl 😁

Very veru useful video.thanks for sharing it. By the way I would be soooo grateful if you tell me what is your taste of perfume.because AFTER watching so many I'm not sure about.And it's so importatnt for me because I just blind buy perfumes and I buy wahtever you recommand.your opinion is sooooo worthy for me.

Did you mention buying several fragrances that smell the same/have similar vibe . I do this one alot, I find a scent profile I love (i.e. roses vanille and I wind up with 5 versions of it) Then next month I over it and never reach for them. Designers I feel easier to let go of bc they sre a dime a dozen but I seem to hold on more to my niche. Ive learned to let go of anything I dont reach for for the entire season that scent is most appropriate in.

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What is your zodiac sign? You are giving me Libra or cancer vibes 💖

This random video was so useful cause today i was about to buy Olympea Intense cause you really liked it but I never tested it, so I guess i will first need to check it in store 🙄

Wish I could follow these, as they're good advice. The problem is that I live 80 miles away from any department store, and NOWHERE near a real perfume store. :( I've got to either blind buy or go broke on samples. *sigh* Really good advice in the video, though!

You should review Milton Lloyd perfumes please

Great tipps. The only mistake i make is paying the full price in the Store because i adore and wan't, wan't, wan't it. It was Chloe nomade absolu and Mon Guerlain by Guerlain....ok and Prada la femme... 👀

Its so hard not to want the whole collection lol! I've learned my lesson with Elie Saab. Yes I own them all.......but why? I'm going to keep them but never ever again. Also new releases are hard to nor want. I'm doing good though.

Great video and I’m guilty of all of these. HOWEVER, I caught myself early. I started collecting perfume in May of this year and I’ve definitely reigned myself in! Well… except for JPG La Belle which I just blind bought and hoping I like it. If I don’t, well I have definitely learned my lesson!

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I’ve fallen for overhyped perfumes for sure!!! Blind buying has been my poison. I NEED TO STOP 🛑

I didn’t know there were discounted fragrance companies. Please share the links with me.

I've done the same mistakes 😂😂😂😂😂😂😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Is notino authentic/trustworthy in your experience? I’ve never bought from them because a few people scared me that some scents are fake.

I really wanted to buy Alien goddess and I hate it, I smelt it in the perfume shop

is there a credible site to purchase the niche perfumes?

I pretty much started my perfume journey by making the economical-mistake of buying fragrances based off of the number of stars a perfume had…that was hella WRONG! 😑 such as with Paloma Picasso’s “Paloma Picasso” I realized I do not like Woody with Musky as the top notes as well as the scent of “real” civetta, which is the scraps of a little cat’s assh*le! , I am not a fan. As I gradually learned, sniffed and watched a plethora of fragrances videos…I learned and now I have an extensive collection, which is my happy/scented place. P.S. Alien was one of the mistakes, personally I just could not stand this scent, it made me sick to my stomach, Paloma Picasso, to my personal nose smelled like air quality in California from August to the end of September 2020!!! and the inside of a smoky, dinghy fireplace. Thanks Gabby for your knowledge and reviews of perfumes.

I just start my collection last year so I want to hear your suggestions,which size u normally perches?

Where are you selling your perfumes?

Omg I did that with kayali vanilla 28. I keep trying to like it and I don't. Also, I don't like goid girl, I love bad boy and brought that for my husband. I love most perfume from dolce and Gabbana.

Just like Italica . I never liked it. I really wanted to but there was something in it that I just couldn't get over. It was a pass for me. I almost blind bought it.

Made this mistake myself! 😦

I buy used bottles in eBay or fragrance Facebook groups 😅

I just blind bought Unique'e Crush on me lol

Why nobody talk about the samples are more stronger and stay longer more than the whole bottle?🤔

I almost blind bought Velvet Tonka too. But I got a sample and it wasnt for me. It turned into like a public restroom smell on my skin 🤢🤢🤮🤮

I wish I could find this video a little earlier, haha! You're totally right, don't buy cheap JUST because it's cheap! Save your money, guys, to buy a very good quality and smell perfume! This is the best advice ever! 🥲❤

I like to blind buy perfume samples. It's a lot less expensive than the full bottles.

in Notino they sell fake perfumes, at list in Czech Republic.

I saw this video too late 😅😅😅

Another thing, I wish people would be transparent. Stop saying a perfume is authentic, I want to know if it’s expired or reject you bought from big stores like saks, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, or the brand itself. Because they’re getting rid of the old fragrances that aren’t selling, to bring in new fresh ones. Yes discount places, I’m talking to y’all. I’d rather pay the full price at saks, Nordstrom and Bloomingdales. I got burned once from fragrancenet, because I thought it was a good deal. But they’re selling expired perfumes. Lucky they took both of them back.