The Fragrance Store

The Fragrance Store decants its own stock, and the stock is the reason to look. Xerjoff x Lamborghini, Penhaligon's Halfeti Amber, Ex Nihilo Scarlet Sands: releases that are limited, exclusive or simply absent from UK shelves, offered at 2ml, 5ml and 10ml alongside the full 100ml bottle.

That combination is rarer than it sounds. Most decant shops sell you a sample and leave you to find the bottle elsewhere. Here the step up is in one place, which matters most on this kind of release, where the full bottle is hard to source.

The range sits around 130 fragrances rather than hundreds, and that is a curation decision. This is the shop for when you have read about something obscure, cannot find anywhere in the UK that stocks it, and want to smell it before spending three figures.

Prices run from £4.99 for a small decant up to the high hundreds for the rarest full bottles, so the shelf reaches well past the usual niche ceiling.

Everything is decanted in house under their own name rather than resold, so the handling is theirs end to end.

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