A bounty of discontinued frags!

Several weeks ago a manager at a local shop, seeing my interest in finding older and discontinued frags, offered to help me track down some of them. I made a list of about 40 frags and gave it to him. He in turn copied the list and gave it to several salesmen friends of his who make the rounds to all the shops in the region.

I expected that they might find one or two a week or several a month, but he called me today and rattled off a whole list of frags, so many that I couldn't keep track of them all.

I went to his shop today after work and picked up bottles of:

Patou Pour Homme
Ungaro I
Ungaro II
Balenciaga Pour Homme
Aramis JHL
Nina Ricci Signoricci 2
Nina Ricci Phileas
Romeo Gigli Sud Est
Guerlain Derby
Lancome Sagamore
Nicole Miller for Men
Bogart Furyo (a set with edt, after shave, soap, and deodorant)
Donna Karan Men Unleaded
Alain Delon AD Plus

I was shocked that they had found so many so quickly, and since I had already promised him that I would buy any that he found, forked over the dough. I hadn't planned to spend so much at one time, but felt obligated and also wanted to take advantage of this great opportunity to get these rare frags.

Since I coughed up so much money he threw in two free bottles of Yatagan after shave (the older bottle style, not the newer one) and a free bottle of Paco Rabanne Pour Homme.

Now I'm wondering what the next few weeks will bring. There are still about 25 frags left on my list. They might be able to keep up the pace but I'm not sure that I can

I'll try to post some comments about some of these frags once I get a chance to try them out.

It's been an expensive day, but a great one as far as frags go!

noggs

UngerWoo,

Regarding the price for the Patou, it was $35 for a 90ml bottle. I've already asked him if he could find more

The guy just added up the marked prices on each bottle and gave me the total. Since most of the bottles had been sitting around for a while most of the prices were kind of old, too

Normally, if I were buying stuff from the shop I'd get a good discount off the marked prices. But since these bottles came from various shops in various cities that wasn't possible. But the guys did a lot of legwork to find this stuff for me, so it was worth it.

BTW, the Signoricci 2 is the old one in the tall, round Lalique bottle.

noggs

Stranger,

The guy told me he could get another bottle of Phileas if I wanted it. The price is $30. I'll check it out and if I like it (of course I will!) I'll think about getting the other bottle.

The one bottle of JHL they found for me is the only one I've ever seen. Markets are different. For example, Dior Jules, which many people in other countries have difficulty finding, is available at nearly every shop here. Also, the original Jil Sander Man Pure is still widely available here, but scarce in most places. But JHL is very rare here.

noggs