Perfume prices Am I a miser? (1 Viewer)

[CazPaul]

Has anybody bought any perfume for their wives recently.

Bought her some for birthday just gone, £55 for a small bottle, the lady in the shop said smell that isn't it lovely?

Err ''No, it smells all the same to me.

Is it just expensive flavoured water that cost 50pence to produce or am I a tight fisted Yorkshire skinflint?

 

[Ralph-n-Bev]

Your a tight fisted Yorkshire skin flint

 

[CazPaul]

Your a tight fisted Yorkshire skin flint

I knew you would say that. It takes a tight fisted yorkshire person to spot another one.

I also bought her 3 books and some pj's

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[DavidG58]

I am with you on the £55 being too much, but buy at sale price £30 doesn't seem too bad to me

and I don't do books

might do jarmies but they have to be brushed cotton these days

 

[Just smiffy]

I know what you mean, I buy Sharp perfume and she likes the expensive stuff £70+ and sometimes I see her spraying it around like air-freshener.....

On another side of that she buys me designer aftershave and people do comment on it....

 

[Kirsten]

everything nowadays is jus' extortionate .. I remember penny [old D! ]bars of chocolate.

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[Stretto Boy]

You spend all that money - cash you could use to buy something really nice for your motorhome - and do wives ever thank you for it? They do not. My wife was always complaining about how long it takes to clean the kitchen floor so out of the generosity of my heart - and from my own hard-earned money - I bought her an electric mop one Christmas. It cost about £150! For all the thanks I got, I might just as well have bought her something completely useless like scent at £55 and spent the savings on some camera equipment. Pah!

 

[audlin]

If the lady loves it, just pay up! It's a Christmas present and brushed cotton pjs just won't hack it. If you can afford it, then a bit of luxury goes a long way.

 

[Silver-Fox]

On another side of that she buys me designer aftershave and people do comment on it....

Thought they stopped selling Brute and High Karate

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[Just smiffy]

Thought they stopped selling Brute and High Karate

Old spice.......

 

[old-mo]

Buy her some of this =



And stick a "Channel No5" label on...

She wont notice the difference...

 

[CazPaul]

I am with you on the £55 being too much, but buy at sale price £30 doesn't seem too bad to me

and I don't do books

might do jarmies but they have to be brushed cotton these days

A man after my own heart David, I need to look at the sales I think.

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[Podney]

It’s all crap,don’t buy it. Unless you want to get your leg over,in which case,buy loads of it.

 

[Carol]

Some perfumes are worth paying for.

 

[CazPaul]

It’s all crap,don’t buy it. Unless you want to get your leg over,in which case,buy loads of it.

There must be a cheaper way of doing that surely?

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[CazPaul]

There was some cheaper stuff in the shop but I had my orders, so to speak.

 

[audlin]

There was some cheaper stuff in the shop but I had my orders, so to speak.

Just obey the orders and you'll be quids in for the rest of the year!

 

[Podney]

There must be a cheaper way of doing that surely?

Gin and Tonic used to work,but not any more. Must be losing the touch.

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[wingman]

'Scent' is a two-way thing. Nothin' nicer than a lady smelling nice; it's erotic even, so just call it an investment!

Some stores do gift wrapping FOC. Particularly at this time of year. AND, a nice expensive bottle looks good on the dressing table. It's a gift that keeps on giving.

There's a lot to this parfum malarkey though, it's not just a bottle of jollop to them. They have 'light' perfumes for summer and different fragrances for different occasions. It's complicated.

As an aside, I find perfumes seductive. For some, it's bosoms, for others, it's legs or derrières, but for me, it's heavy perfumes; the sort that you can stand a chair up in after the lady walks past you in the street! My favourite used to be Charlie. Don't know if they do it any more? One's clothes used to smell like a tart's boudoir for days after and served as a reminder of the night of amour, days before. The equivalent today is something like Black Opium by Yves Saint Laurent.

£55 ? That's only just over a quid a week. Get down to the Hight Street and buy some. She'll love it!

 

[WillH]

I have my orders on perfume for Christmas, it's a lot more than £55, but still cheaper than last year's present. To be fair the van got a new AC compressor this year and is being fitted with a new throttle body next week, a lot more than the cost of the perfume!

 

[Stealaway]

Just paid £50 for 100ml but she can't think of anything else and it saves me trying to think of something else and I am a tight fisted Yorkshire man. She didn't want a compressor.

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[PhilG]

Has anybody bought any perfume for their wives recently.

Bought her some for birthday just gone, £55 for a small bottle, the lady in the shop said smell that isn't it lovely?

Err ''No, it smells all the same to me.

Is it just expensive flavoured water that cost 50pence to produce or am I a tight fisted Yorkshire skinflint?

Its so people can tell how rich you are by what you smell like... im with you Rip off

 

[Riverbankannie]

A half tank diesel costs pennies to produce too. It's all about where the mark ups come from.

It's worth paying a bit more for a good perfume as you get quality base scents and the perfume will linger longer.

Why would you pay less for sonething your wife would not like.

 

[PhilG]

A half tank diesel costs pennies to produce too. It's all about where the mark ups come from.

It's worth paying a bit more for a good perfume as you get quality base scents and the perfume will linger longer.

Why would you pay less for sonething your wife would not like.

But its half a tank of deisel, not a thimble full of summat that stinks.. it just smells, you could smell of diesel all the time for less than 1p a day.

Half a tank of diesel would get me to Belgium

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[Riverbankannie]

But its half a tank of deisel, not a thimble full of summat that stinks.. it just smells, you could smell of diesel all the time for less than 1p a day.

Half a tank of diesel would get me to Belgium

Trying to think of something witty to say about going to Belgium but it's too late at night!

 

[PhilG]

Trying to think of something witty to say about going to Belgium but it's too late at night!

Its a nondescript place.. i cant think of owt either, im still feeling @Stealaway's pain for being £50 out of pocket.

 

[Stretto Boy]

Why would you pay less for sonething your wife would not like.

Surely because it is a lot better than the alternative. As you can see from my post regarding the electric mop above, I paid a lot MORE for something my wife didn’t like
If you’re going down, go down cheaply.

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[Carol]

For a really beautiful perfume try Penhaligons, oil based not alcohol based the perfume stays all day just wafts, that's being spoilt.
Magic.

 

[Just smiffy]

Sometimes it pays to spend that little bit extra.....

 

[Anthea M]

I know what you mean, I buy Sharp perfume and she likes the expensive stuff £70+ and sometimes I see her spraying it around like air-freshener.....

On another side of that she buys me designer aftershave and people do comment on it....

'Spraying it like air-freshener ' that's the way to get an all over cover ! Spray into the air then walk into it then the perfume covers all the body !!!
Which is why we get through so much !
My daughters bought me some lovely perfume called Daisy once but a few weeks later youngest 'borrowed 'it and I never saw it again!!!

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