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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Cheap copies of brand-name perfumes
Message-ID: <685@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 12:43:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  4 12:43:33 1986
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Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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> I have been barraged with advertisements lately regarding cheap/inexpensive
> imitations of expensive brand-name perfumes, often offering imitation
> jewelry if I bought it.  They have ranged in price from $1.25 up to $19.95.

	The key phrase imbedded in the advertising is ``our version of the
famous perfume [insert name here]''.  This is a disclaimer which gives these
schlock imitation perfume companies great leeway in avoiding prosecution for
mail fraud and from violating assorted other deceptive advertising statutes.
	You get what you pay for, and these imitations are trash.  There are
no shortcuts to the manufacture of a quality perfume.  The various `famous'
perfumes consist of mixtures of as many as 30 different fragrences, along with
carefully selected fixatives which retard and equalize the evaporation rates of
the various constituent fragrences.  One characteristic of a cheap imitation
perfume is that the overall fragrence *changes* while being worn; this results
from a lack of proper fixatives.
	Save your money until you can buy the real stuff from a reputable store.

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