I have a dream! er.. concern, matter of factly

Ahoy mates,

Well, I recently smelled Burberry London from a vial which I had decanted for a pal.. I had decanted by spraying it into the vial from the bottle that I own. Now, when I smelled it from the vail.. I noticed that it reached its mid-notes rather QUICKLY .. as in within 10 seconds..from the moment of application from the vial... whereas the same frag when sprayed from my bottle reaches those mid-notes AFTER a few minutes... atleast 8-10ish minutes.

So that got me thinking.. frags begin diffusing their "top notes" IMMEDIATELY upon spraying from the bottle.. right? And then once sprayed the frags begins to settle.. going onto the heart notes and finally the base notes over a period of time. So if that's true.. it also means.. than when decanted into vials/decants directly by spraying from the bottle leaves a somewhat diluted or "airy" frag behind which has already lost its top notes... and has only the heart and base notes intact.

Sooo... what are your thoughts on this? Have any of you also noticed this phenomenon.. or am I not making any sense here? Also, many decanters use a different technique to decant their frags for selling.. like the funnel/tube etc... probably those techniques are much safer for decanting.. as they don't require the frag to be sprayed.. thus avoiding the diffusing of its 'top notes" .

Would love to hear comments.

p.s. He had stored the vial in a nice cool & dark place, so improper storage/handling is out of the question. Also, the frag is genuine.

With that statement I'm referring to professional decanters, and some online retailers like Luckyscent, PerfumedCourt etc.. Would they not be buying (atleast some.. or most?) of the frags that they sell as decants in Bulk? Which means they're probably not bottled into a bottle which uses "spraying" as a liquid eject mechanism... that's where the Tube and Funnel come into play.

Think about it... if spraying was the ONLY way to get a frag out of a bottle, what use is the Tube and the Funnel? Frags can be very easily be sprayed DIRECTLY into the vials.. even tiny vials like the 1ml-1.5ml ones... no nees for a tube/funnel here.

The loss of a few drops of frags on the funnel (the tube can be squeezed to have the frag drop back into the bottle) would be negligible for professional decanters.

Yes, That is exactly what my concern is... I smelled the frag reach its mid-notes so bloody fast and made me go WTF!

Yes, that's part of what I esentially mean.. bottles which feature REMOVABLE spray mechanisms .. which then can be decanted by using the tube.. thereby avoiding the need to spray-decant

Those, and bigger capacity bottles of frags that have stoppers.. instead of fixed spray atomizers... these are the safest-to-decant type bottles.. and i'm hoping the online retailers do buy those kinda bottles. So all in all, what I'm saying is that frags decanted this way would be immune to the issues faced by frags which are spray-decanted... by people like ourselves.. gotta be VERY careful when spray-decanting next time

^ I understand how you feel, because I felt the exact same way.

I posted this because I observed something... and wanted to share, apologies if I've caused any displeasure.. it was unintentional.

^ lol

Eyeing the Marc Jacobs I decanted just yesterday.... sigh.... i'm scared of spritzing the decant now.