NOTHING provides a quick pick-me-up like a spray of your favorite scent.
But if you snag your perfume at a huge discount that makes it all the sweeter – and one shopping expert shared exactly how to do that at Walmart.
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OrlandoQponQueen has more than 600,000 TikTok followers and recently posted a video on some incredible deals she was able to nab buying fragrances at the retail giant.
She said she was basically in the right place at the right time and the secret is to know when to get the best deals on perfume at Walmart.
There’s a best time to buy
The savvy shopper said August is prime time when comes to getting the biggest discounts you can on fragrance.
She said: “Every August the perfumes and colognes go extremely low at Walmart.”
The expert then highlighted some well-known designer brands, including Calvin Klein and Versace.
- Nautica Blue which retails normally for about $15 was on clearance for $3.74
- Eau de Juice, which sells for about $8 was on sale for just $2.15
- Calvin Klein‘s iconic Eternity fragrance, which normally retails for $44 was on the shelf for $8.84 – that’s a saving of about $35 or about 80 percent.
- Versace‘s Bright Crystal was also on display. The regular retail price was $76, but it was marked down to $25.34. That’s a discount of about 66 percent.
But it gets even better, as when she had the cashier ring up her Versace fragrance, it was only $15.50 for a massive 80 percent price break.
She did have to wait a while for the sales associate to come and unlock the case so she could access the scents, but when she finally checked out, the grand total was just $57.65.
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“I got so much. Christmas is good,” she announced.
Her post got a massive 1.3million views and more than 200,000 likes and almost 1,000 comments.
One follower was skeptical of the deals, saying: “this is false advertisement.
“I just went to my local Walmart in Orlando & none of these perfumes especially the Versace one was on sale.”
Another responded saying: “Not every Walmart will have the discount.”
And yet another was also suspicious thinking the deals may have been too good to be true.
“Versace crystal is my favorite but I don’t trust it if it’s not from Macy’s, Sacks, Neiman, blooming, etc. y’all get the point.”
While a third said: “Those would make such great Christmas gifts!!!”
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Picking and storing your perfume
Gul Moorjani, aka George Moore, is somewhat of an expert when it comes to perfume.
He owned multiple perfume boutiques in Hong Kong, China for decades before retiring in the 1990s.
He was highly sought after for his expertise, catering mainly to tourists from the US, Europe, Japan and Australia and clients included celebrities like Sophia Loren and French actor Alain Delon.
He recommends when deciding which perfume to buy be selective about how many you try.
He said: “Your nose is sensitive and if you try to smell too many at once, it sends your sense of smell into shock.
The parfumier recommends trying no more than three at a time and says the best way to sample is to spray a dab on the inside of your wrist.
“That’s a pulse point. It interacts immediately with your body chemistry so you will get a good sense of how it will smell on you.
“If you spray it on a piece of paper you won’t get that,” he added.
He also said it was best to wait five or ten minutes to see how it smells on you then.
That’s when the top notes, or the initial fragrance wears off.
You are left with the middle notes which typically last from two to four hours and make up the bulk of the fragrance.
The base notes usually last four to six hours and leave the residual effect of a fragrance.
Moorjani also says to store your perfumes carefully, avoiding heat and sunlight, and not to store them in the fridge, which he says many people tend to do.
Above all the perfume expert said that “less is more” and while you want people to smell your fragrance and let it make an entrance as you do, you don’t want it to overpower.
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