QUOTE(theandy95 @ Feb 10 2013, 10:38 PM)
That's quite scary..how to differentiate between real and fake perfumes without looking at the price?Because some might not know what the real price is. Perhaps the smell of it? Wouldn't want to end up buying a fake perfume, and like u said, get skin issues later. But that's not to say real, authentic perfumes wouldn't make someone get skin issues too right?
original fragrance will only caused skin issues due to the wearer's own skin sensitivity issue towards certain ingredients used,and when a lot of people complain about their skin issues to the health authorities,those ingredients will be banned and many fragrance will be discontinued or reformulated,with fakes there are no guidelines to whatever they wanna put in the bottle,they can add in tap water or anything without you knowing it.i think i mentioned these problems for fakes previously.just dont buy and use any 'rejected/our version of.../grade a,aa,aaa' perfume.to be honest its really hard to know if its a fake or real because fakes nowadays can be imitated almost exactly the same.i brought a fake bottle with matching code on the box and bottle,almost identical smell,to 3 departmental stores for an experiment,and all said no problem with the bottle,its original....

most fakes will have similar opening smell only so that when you sniff the opening,you will think its original,so one of the way is to wait for the middle notes and dry down and compare it with the original,but really troublesome.the price actually plays a big part in differentiating them too,if it's too cheap to be true,buy at your own risk and be prepared that its fake then if you really wanna get it