Basenotes › Basenotes Forums › Fragrance Discussion › Just Starting Out › Your opinion - is this Terre D'Hermes a fake or genuine ?
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Your opinion - is this Terre D'Hermes a fake or genuine ?

post #1 of 12
12/12/12 at 11:14pm
Thread Starter 
Howdy all,

just wondering if any of you would be kind enough to offer your opinion on the authenticity (or otherwise) of this :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Terre-D-Herm...item5899391418

Many thanks in advance.
Reply
Reply

Features on Basenotes

Petals Falling From The Sky - A Report From The Cote d'Azur's Bataille De Fleurs
Basenotes Reader Awards 2013 - Finalists Announced.
Greatest Hits: Annick Menardo
post #2 of 12
12/13/12 at 12:02am
Looks fine to me, but mine is 200ml Parfum. I imagine the presentation would be the same.
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 12
12/13/12 at 12:06am
Yes, I think this looks real/right...
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 12
12/13/12 at 12:13am
The price is about right for a discount and I don't recall any reports of this being a bad seller. Mine too is the 200ml bottle but this looks good to me.
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 12
12/13/12 at 12:55am
While I have been the victim of receiving a fake Terre d'Hermes edt off eBay a year ago, I am not aware of pure perfume fakes. At the price they are selling it for, I doubt it is fake.
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 12
12/13/12 at 1:03am
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by drseid View Post

While I have been the victim of receiving a fake Terre d'Hermes edt off eBay a year ago, I am not aware of pure perfume fakes. At the price they are selling it for, I doubt it is fake.

Many thanks to all respondents - appreciate your time. Look like I'll be buying this.

drseid, can you elaborate further on your fake eBay perfume ? e.g seller's name, how you found out it was fake etc.

Thanks
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 12
12/13/12 at 1:19am
You may as well get it off of amazon for that price. Looks legit though.
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 12
12/13/12 at 2:27am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul P View Post

Many thanks to all respondents - appreciate your time. Look like I'll be buying this.

drseid, can you elaborate further on your fake eBay perfume ? e.g seller's name, how you found out it was fake etc.

Thanks

Well, I could "out" the seller, but as they issued me a quick full refund and took the product off eBay immeditely, I don't think I should as they may have been hoodwinked themselves. All I can say is it was a lesson well learned for me and I definitely should have known better. What I *will* say is that it was not one of the power sellers many here buy from like the scented monkeys of the world. This was a relatively obscure seller that I had no experience with prior to the sale. As to how I found out is was a fake... The paint on the bottle was coming off with an orange oily substance all over the twist down neck as it was lowered... and the scent was quite different than the bottle I already had purchased at retail.
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 12
12/13/12 at 3:08am
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by drseid View Post

Well, I could "out" the seller, but as they issued me a quick full refund and took the product off eBay immeditely, I don't think I should as they may have been hoodwinked themselves. All I can say is it was a lesson well learned for me and I definitely should have known better. What I *will* say is that it was not one of the power sellers many here buy from like the scented monkeys of the world. This was a relatively obscure seller that I had no experience with prior to the sale. As to how I found out is was a fake... The paint on the bottle was coming off with an orange oily substance all over the twist down neck as it was lowered... and the scent was quite different than the bottle I already had purchased at retail.

Thanks for the reply drseid. Sounds like the seller did all they could to right the wrong.

Sorry you had to go through that.

I don't have another bottle of Terre D'Hermes, so I'll have nothing to compare if I get suspicious. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

Thanks again.
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 12
12/13/12 at 4:55am
If you're judging whether fragrance is genuine or not by how it looks on the picture, it always a good idea to ask a seller if what you're looking at is a picture of of a real item s/he is selling or just a stock photo. All too often sellers use stock photos from the Internet. It doesn't necessarily mean that what you're buying isn't genuine, but rather deprives you of the opportunity to catch a fake before you pay for it.
Reply
Reply
post #11 of 12
12/13/12 at 5:45pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by oboltus View Post

If you're judging whether fragrance is genuine or not by how it looks on the picture, it always a good idea to ask a seller if what you're looking at is a picture of of a real item s/he is selling or just a stock photo. All too often sellers use stock photos from the Internet. It doesn't necessarily mean that what you're buying isn't genuine, but rather deprives you of the opportunity to catch a fake before you pay for it.

Hmmm..........a very good point. I'll have to ask.

Thanks for the thought.
Reply
Reply
post #12 of 12
12/13/12 at 6:28pm
In the future, make sure you look for the ribbon next to their name that says "top rated plus." You can basically guarantee it's legit if the seller has a large volume of positive feedback.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Just Starting Out

Features on Basenotes

Petals Falling From The Sky - A Report From The Cote d'Azur's Bataille De Fleurs
Basenotes Reader Awards 2013 - Finalists Announced.
Greatest Hits: Annick Menardo
Basenotes › Basenotes Forums › Fragrance Discussion › Just Starting Out › Your opinion - is this Terre D'Hermes a fake or genuine ?