I finally broke my drought on buying scents, when I bought a big 100ml bottle of Parah Man in Hong Kong the other day, for hundreds of Hong Kong dollars, which equated to about A$30. This made it heaps cheaper than its sale price in Italy, where it cost about that for a 50ml bottle.
During the course of my trip, I made the following observations.
Fragrance prices were very expensive in Madrid and Italy, with extremely little by way of decent discounting.
Prices in Croatia were a bit cheaper, and they did have some decent discounts in various stores. Of particular interest was a Douglas store in Zagreb which had very good discounts on a number of recent scents, though I wasn't tempted, as I thought I'd eventually do better in sales back home. By way of contrast, Douglas stores back in Italy had nothing like the discounts the Croatian Douglas store had.
The only cheap scents in Italy, were again to be found in my local Italian hardware store - where 100ml testers of Gaultier Squared, Dior Homme, A*men, Gucci Homme and YSL L'Homme and the like were going for 34 Euros each.
Prices of scents in Hong Kong's Sasa stores weren't quite as dear as they are in Melbourne's retail stores. Older ones like Eternity and Obsession were much cheaper, but the newer ones weren't. And they had some good discounts on a few scents. What struck me as odd on the few scents I picked up, was the very small price difference between 50ml and 100ml bottles. (Note, I didn't check any scents in their street markets).
Anyhow, I'm back home now. Time to see what's going cheap since I left seven weeks ago.
Cheers,
Renato
During the course of my trip, I made the following observations.
Fragrance prices were very expensive in Madrid and Italy, with extremely little by way of decent discounting.
Prices in Croatia were a bit cheaper, and they did have some decent discounts in various stores. Of particular interest was a Douglas store in Zagreb which had very good discounts on a number of recent scents, though I wasn't tempted, as I thought I'd eventually do better in sales back home. By way of contrast, Douglas stores back in Italy had nothing like the discounts the Croatian Douglas store had.
The only cheap scents in Italy, were again to be found in my local Italian hardware store - where 100ml testers of Gaultier Squared, Dior Homme, A*men, Gucci Homme and YSL L'Homme and the like were going for 34 Euros each.
Prices of scents in Hong Kong's Sasa stores weren't quite as dear as they are in Melbourne's retail stores. Older ones like Eternity and Obsession were much cheaper, but the newer ones weren't. And they had some good discounts on a few scents. What struck me as odd on the few scents I picked up, was the very small price difference between 50ml and 100ml bottles. (Note, I didn't check any scents in their street markets).
Anyhow, I'm back home now. Time to see what's going cheap since I left seven weeks ago.
Cheers,
Renato
