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Buying guides, price checks and fragrance stories that lead to the exact bottles and evidence behind the answer.
A £14 designer bottle at one unfamiliar seller means nothing. These six are under £25 at four or more of the UK retailers we check, which is what makes the price real.
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Twelve different bottles are sold as L'Interdit in the UK. Three of them cost £47.99 and none of the three is the same perfume. Here is how to tell them apart.
Narciso Rodriguez sells both at 30 ml, 50 ml and 90 ml. At 30 ml the standard eau de parfum is £24.50 and the Intense is £55.50, which makes this the rare case where the small bottle is the best value.
A 15 ml Lady Million costs more than the 30 ml. Across the bottles we track, price per millilitre falls hard with size, and the travel size is the worst buy on the shelf.
We compared 39 refill and bottle pairs at matching concentrations. 28 refills came out cheaper per millilitre, some by more than half. Nine were dearer, including one on the same fragrance line as the biggest saving.
We checked seven UK retailers on the same day. Estée Lauder Youth Dew ranged from £17.99 to £48.50, and no shop was cheapest on everything.
Calvin Klein CK One is 16p a millilitre at 200 ml and 18p at 300 ml, so the biggest bottle is not the best value. The 20 ml is nearly six times the unit price of the 200 ml.
Seven UK retailers stock Lady Million. The 30 ml has been £5 cheaper than it is today, the 15 ml costs more than the 30 ml, and three flankers sit at almost the same price.
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Elixir sits at six UK retailers with a £24 gap between cheapest and dearest. Here is how to read that before you buy.
Fame comes in three strengths and four sizes. The intense is currently cheaper than the standard eau de parfum at 80 ml, and the refill halves the price per millilitre.
Seven UK retailers stock Spicebomb, and the 90 ml is better value per millilitre than the 150 ml. Here is what each size costs and which flankers are worth separating out.
Compare like for like, ignore headline discounts and use price history to decide whether a UK perfume deal is any good.