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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Cheap copies of brand-name perfumes
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 10:42:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 10:42:49 1986
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Those imitation perfumes will, in most cases, smell just like
the expensive ones.  The makers get the formulas from a
publication (I can't remember the name).  Anyone can make
the stuff, given the right ingredients.  What the makers
can't do is package it just like the original.  That's fraud.

There was, at one time, a small shop in the Wall Street area
of NY that would make up any perfume you wanted at one
tenth the cost of the real thing.  Right next door was another
small shop that sold perfume bottles, nearly like the ones
that the good stuff came in.  You could have a perfume made up
and go next door and package it yourself.  They were honest, though,
they wouldn't let you package more than three bottles from their shop
to cut down on someone trying to peddle the stuff as the real thing.
By the way, the shops are gone now.  Replaced by a high rise office
building.

T. C. Wheeler