Demeter recently introduced a sampling program, and all fragrances are now available in 11 ml splash sizes for $3 each. Starting in July, Demeter will replace the smaller size with new "Humongous Miniatures", 15 ml splash bottles for $5.
The Humongous Miniatures will be available on the Demeter website only. Around the holidays, look for a set of all 200+ scents from the Demeter Fragrance Library in 15 ml splash bottles.
Damn! I just ordered Cannabis Flower AND Fig Leaves…I wonder if they would send some samples along…
I really love the overall “concept” of Demeter, and I think that for me represents what American Parfumerie should strive for. Not ALL American Parfumerie, I mean just a fresh and fun approach to fragrances, not constrained by Europe's stuffiness.
I think Demeter has chosen to walk a fine line, one that divides good taste and inventiveness, and looks like they are doing a fine job…(at least they have not come up with “poop” pick me up)
Agree with all of that! And since 15 ml is all I ever need of anything, very happy to see these so reasonably priced.
The range didn't catch on here.
I understand that one might want to sniff some of those scents to jog one's memory, for nostalgia's sake or something, but to *wear*?
Some are quite nice to wear, ie Holy Smoke for incense fans. I've wanted to compare some of the leather scents too; they offer several varieties.
Totally agree on 15ml being the perfect perfume size! That way we could all own even more, and actually have a chance at finishing something up.
Oh, if only every scent I ever wanted to sample came in such sizes…
I love wearing them, but they definitely go in the “fun” category
I haven't tried any of the leathers so far! I'll never catch up to all 200 of them.
A lot of the Demeters sound daft and unwearable (Lobster?), but some of them are exceedingly well made and very pleasurable to wear. As Robin noted (and I did last year in my blog as well), Gingerale is an astounding scent which actually smells carbonated: no lasting power, but the sheer novelty of it makes it worth owning. (I have a dozen Demeters and will definitely buy more, particularly in that size and at that price.) To name a couple more, Waffle Cone is a strikingly lovely vanilla scent with a toasted-grain note, and it lasts a very long time (for a Demeter, that is), and Blue Hawaii is unexpectedly realistic–it smells largely of pineapple juice and it isn't synthetic at all. They're not just jokes: some of them are honest-to-goodness fragrances.
I would just like to add that after reading this article, I went to the Demeter website, and I ended up ordering twenty of the $3, 11-mL minis. TWENTY. Thanks a BUNCH, Robin, you enabler, you.
GREAT idea.
I love Dirt.
20, wow! But smart move to get them now, 20 perfumes for $60 is a bargain even if you only end up liking a fraction of them. Also guessing these minis will be very swappable
It is a great idea!
Again, it's what's available in the UK for me. Wonderful idea these minis. I have recently just ordered their “Hot Fudge Sunday”, which I love. I also have always wondered why most scents don't last on me. Of course, the Demeter lines wouldn't be the ones to judge that by. But I did discover that research indicates that the more high strung individuals, such as myself, usually are not able to keep fragrance on as long as the calmer types. Deep breaths……
I had been sort of on the verge of buying a bottle of Fahrenheit 32, and then I figured, well, for the same price I can get a whole armload of Demeters (which I have had very good luck with), and, as you say, the ones I don't like are very swappable.
And I didn't even get every Demeter I wanted! I ordered Licorice, but forgot to get Sambuca! Maybe I'll go through the list again and…but that way lies madness, doesn't it?
Dang it, I wanted to order all of the leather scents in 11ml, but their international shipping is $40(!) no matter how small your order… I feel I would have to place a huge order to justify that, and I don't have that kind of money right now… $40! I guess they simply don't want the hassle with shipping internationelly. It used to be $10 the one time I ordered… If that didn't cover huge orders, then how about a sample shipping price? *mutters*
Oh, please tell me how you like the licorice! One of my favorite sweets, although really good black licorice is hard to find any more.
Ouch! Shipping overseas is getting outrageous, no matter which side of the pond you're on. I do know that postal prices went up in the US recently, and maybe there was serious hike in the int'l shipping rates?
Yes, and it explains a lot for me;
“Apply scent more often if you have fair, dry skin or a high-strung,
emotional personality (fragrance evaporates from these skin and
personality types more quickly). Oily skin retains scent longer —
more oil glands mean more oil joins with the perfume oils for slower
evaporation, greater durability.”
Well, from BPAL:
“As of May 14, 2007, the USPS has skyrocketed their international shipping prices through the damned roof. Accordingly, we have had to make adjustments to our international shipping grid.”
I'm older now and my skin is getting drier, but when I was young I had very oily skin *and* I was highly strung (I still am). I know other women who are highly strung and have oily skin. I doubt dry skin has anything to do with being highly strung.
I agree. I think it's probably different factors on different people. I do believe that differing temperments can enter into the equation, which would explain what happens with me. I have oily skin, but am quite high strung.
Thanks, that is sort of what I figured
The package arrived this morning (after a misadventure in which the first package got lost by UPS). I'd placed it in June, but since they had to re-fulfill the order in July, they sent me the half-ounce bottles rather than the 11-mL bottles I ordered (at no extra charge, of course).
The Licorice is sublime. After a brief, boozy jolt which smells like anisette liqueur, it settles down into that dark, slightly earthy licorice-candy smell, an exact replica of those licorice cigars and pipes we used to get in the seventies and probably still can today, though of course they can't call them cigars any more. (Even candy cigarettes are now “candy sticks”, though they're otherwise unchanged.) The Demeter website says it smells of “black licorice twists”, which suggests Twizzlers, but trust me, it doesn't smell like those at all, with their strange waxy scent. It smells like the real thing.
I think if you ordered Licorice untested, you would enjoy it very much. It fades fairly quickly, of course: I've had it on for less than an hour and it's already starting to die down into a slightly sweeter candylike scent. But it's Demeter, so that's par for the course. Still worth the money.
Oh, thank you so much for coming back to comment — this sounds like a must have. I am plotting an order of minis and this will definitely join the list!