Ever wish you had dozens more fragrances to choose from but simply cannot afford high street prices? Or do you ever hesitate before treating yourself to a new perfume or cologne because you are worried about wasting money on something you end up not liking?

Buying fragrances can be an expensive business. Something you leave for special occasions (and maybe hope someone else will treat you!)

But it doesn’t have to be that way. Because as well as buying perfumes and colognes in standard retail sizes - most commonly, 30ml, 50ml and 100ml, with some options in between - it’s also possible to buy big brand fragrances in much smaller, much cheaper sample sizes.

Fragrance samples are widely available to buy online in miniature bottles ranging from 1ml to 10ml in size. Costing just a few pounds each, fragrance samples are a great way to expand your horizons and be absolutely sure about a new scent before you splash out big money on it.

If you love your fragrances, here are three reasons why you will love fragrance samples.

Discover new fragrances

Lots of people end up with just one or two favourite fragrances they stick to and that’s it. That’s a result of fragrances being expensive to buy. For both men and women, perfume and cologne tend to be the sort of things you buy only very occasionally for yourself, or else get given as gifts at Christmas or for your birthday etc. That discourages experimenting with new brands. As an occasional treat, people tend to stick to what they know as opportunities to try something different are few and far between.

Fragrance samples are designed to help people break out of that cycle. Because they are so much cheaper than full-sized products, they give people an affordable way to buy fragrances more often, which means more opportunities to experiment.

Try before you buy

Fragrance samples also take the risk out of trying something new. You could go into a perfume store, try a number of scents, think you’ve found something you love but then realise after a couple of wears that you’re not all that impressed with it after all. For what it costs each time, that’s not the sort of wrong choice you want to be making too often.

Perfume samples Europe let you try fragrances in your own time, in your own way. You can test them out in different situations - for work, for nights out, on dates - and find out what you prefer, when. After trying out a few different samples, you can make a better informed decision when you do come to buy the full product.

This also works great if you are buying fragrances for other people rather than for yourself. When you are buying perfumes and colognes as gifts, there is a lot of risk involved in picking out one they will like (which again is why people tend to stick to tried and tested favourites). But if you know them well enough to know what their preferences are, you can use samples to pick out the best fit.

Expand your collection

Another reason people love fragrance samples is that they let you build up a really good collection of lots of different fragrances for very little cost. Like we say, people often stick to one or two tried and trusted favourite scents, but more for practical reasons of cost etc.

But be honest with yourself - instead of that one trusty scent you slap on day in, day out, wouldn’t you prefer a big selection you can pick and choose from? Different fragrances to suit different seasons, different occasions, even different moods? 

Fragrance samples give you a cheap and easy way to build up such a collection. And yes, you might think the smaller sizes mean each bottle will run out faster. But when you are mixing things up and choosing different fragrances each day, each bottle will last longer anyway.