Designer Fragrance vs. Alternative Brands

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I popped into Next and M&S recently and I've been quite impressed with the quality of their aftershave range, which are typically very cheap (£25 per 100ml). How do you find they compare to the designer range (which are normally £50 per 100ml).
 
As with clothing I doubt there is a straight forward answer to this, designer aftershaves will be a mixture of good stuff with a good label and pretty naff stuff with a designer brand slapped on it. Likewise with the mainstream brands you'll get some pretty average stuff and then some better quality stuff.

Generally I go for what I like as long as its not cheap cheap or stupidly expensive.
 
Never tried them, purely because I don't pay £50 for 100ml, there's always offers on somewhere, saw CK Eternity for £20 in TK Maxx couple of weeks ago.

And I know this sounds vain...but if someone asks what scent that I'm wearing, I'd feel a bit reluctant to say "M&S".
 
I can hear Jesus weeping.

If you like it buy it.

There's nothing more to it than that. Some people will say it wont last as long or it wont be as good quality. It is all personal taste and preference. You think £25 for 100ml is cheap ?
Go meet my mum she will give you an Avon brochure. £6 for 100ml. That is cheap.
I'm pretty sure NO ONE will care what you smell like except you and maybe 1 man or woman, which ever your sexual preference is.

Queue metro sexual men saying otherwise. Its like watches, cars & whiskey. Its all illusions of wealth and status. Buy what you like and can afford.
 
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I used to use Next, but since using Chanel's Alure (EDT), I find it beats the competition by a mile! The biggest factor for me is people still tell me I smell good after 6-8 hours at work ;)
 
I've had comments about how good I smell when wearing Chanel, never had anything when wearing various cheap fragrances I get given at Christmas. There's obviously something to it but I doubt I could personally identify cheap vs expensive in a blind test.
 
High end (chanel etc) is far superior to low or mid range. the difference between Next/M&S and say Davidoff/Lacoste etc is negligible it has more to do with what you like than any inherent quality.
 
it is generally just marketing, fragrance is pretty subjective but like most things some people will convince themselves that spending more will get you more

would be interesting to see some proper blind tests
 
perhaps I posted too soon re: blind tests

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-the-difference-is-in-the-bottle-9882258.html

A spokesperson for Lidl told The Independent: “Two independent consumer panel blind tests carried out by the Perfumer's Guild on the Lidl Suddenly Madame Glamour perfume against a hugely popular designer branded perfume revealed incredible results - 50 women in the first test voted overwhelmingly for the Lidl perfume with 89% saying they would prefer to wear it over the designer brand. And, 90% of the 100 women who blind tested the perfumes in the second round said they also preferred the Lidl perfume.”
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not too surprising
 
I get "Sniffed" quite regularly by people who say "Ooooh you smell nice, what is it?".

The look when I say "Lynx Africa" is usually one of puzzlement.

Basically, what Efour said......
 
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Not surprising as "Designer" can mean anything. Chanel for example isn't really seen as a "Designer" brand, but more "High Fashion Couture". The term "designer" gets bandied about so often these days that it's meaning is lost, for example Adidas is a "designer" brand, but it isn't comparable to Chanel.
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but on the other hand Lidl is comparable to Chanel

(in the context of that article the 'designer' brand is Chanel)
 
I have some equivalent JPG Le Male from next and some proper JPG Le Male the two smell nearly the same but the proper lasts a lot longer.
 
I have had tons ranging from David Beckham and Zara to Chanel and Creed.

I have to say the Zara one was decent but your more expensive brands, Armani, Gucci, Chanel ect do seem to last longer and you dont need to use anywhere near as much, they also get more comments of "you smell nice"

Saying that its upto you and buy what you like
 
Got a variety of fragrances brought back from Saudi recently and many of them are just as good the designer stuff that I've got. Quite impressed actually given they were relatively cheap.
 
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