Do perfumes expire with time?

Yes, perfumes expire. If you have kept them capped, they are probably good since late 2008. If you truly know the smell of the perfume, you can tell if it’s still okay by the smell. When they are bad, they get a “heavy” almost oily smell. That’s because the ingredients evaporate at different rates, leaving the scented ingredients too concentrated. They also take on a darker, cloudy appearance.

I just googled how long perfume lasts and found a site that says they should last three to five years and gives tips on how to store it for maximum life. See below.

Perfumes do expire but if you keep them properly, they will last for many years. Many fragrances can last well beyond five years depending upon where they were kept and what the fragrance composition in the perfume was.

Generally, perfume’s two biggest enemies are heat and light. Air is another factor but if your fragrances are in spray bottles, air is less of a problem unless you unscrew the cap and let the air in. In general you should keep perfumes in a cool dark place where temperatures do not fluctuate too much. So don’t let them sit on your dresser in direct sunlight, don’t store them in the bathroom where the temperatures fluctuate a lot, and don’t put them next to a heater, or let them get so cold that they freeze.

There is no set expiry date for a fragrance as the factors that lead to expiration vary wildly depending on how the fragrance was stored during its lifetime and what went into composing the fragrance in the first place. Expiry dates are a suggested use by date but often times a well-composed perfume can last a very long time. An improperly stored fragrance may only have a shelf life of a year to two years. A well cared for and properly stored fragrance can be beautiful even fifty years down the road.

One of the ways you can tell if your fragrance might go bad sooner than other fragrances you own is to look at the notes. Citrus notes are notorious for being volatile and will usually be one of the very first to break down. So if you have fragrances that rely on a lot of citrus, I would take extra care in storing those perfumes if you want to retain their original scent. Some notes, however, are more resilient such as musks and resins. It’s really a very wide berth between which perfumes last and which ones don’t. For example, Clinique’s Happy tends to deteriorate (if stored improperly) within five years. Whereas some bottles of Chanel No. 5 are over sixty years old and still smell the same as they did back when they were fresh.

So, in short, how long a fragrance lasts and when it expires varies wildly. All you can do is take care to store your perfume in a cool dark place. If your bottles have been in the closet since 2008, they are probably still fine. You can do a visual inspection to make sure, a perfume will have changed if it’s gotten darker than it used to be then you know something’s changed in it.

The best way you can tell for sure is to spray it and smell it to see if it still smells okay. If it doesn’t smell like how you remember or if the scent no longer appeals to you then get a new bottle. If you can’t remember how it smells, make a trip to the department store and see if you can find a tester bottle that you can spray onto a piece of paper to take home and compare, take a clean piece of paper home with you too because perfumes often smell different on the skin than they do on the paper. Better yet, ask the ladies at the department store if they can give you a sample of the perfume and you can go home and double check that way.

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Do perfumes expire with time?

I have 2 perfume bottles in my closet since late 2008 and i want to know if it expire or not, and if yes how long it will stay good?

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I used to work for Armani and Ralph Lauren as their fragrance demonstrator for 2 1/2 years. YES perfume does expire. However if you keep it out of humid places such as the bathroom, or from sunlight it will prolong the life. Best place to store perfume is in a cool closet. Usually perfume has a shelf life of 2-5 years. Some do last longer, you can tell when it has gone bad because it will STINK, and will not smell the same on your skin as it once did.

Does Perfume Go Bad

yes they do expire. just smell them. if you notice that they smell strange and not like when u first bought them you will know they are no longer good.

expired perfumes can be harmful so be careful, they can make you have brown spots on your skin.

I just added some water to my perfume and it smells the same.

do marni perfume expire

Yes they do:

~Perfume-6-9 Months once opened.

~Eau de Perfume-More than 1 year once opened or used the 1st time.

~Eau de Toilette- Expires more than 2 years once used the 1st time.

~Eau de Cologne-More than 2 years once used the 1st time.

~Light Colognes-2-4 years once used the 1st time.

—Just look what kind you have. Most COLOGNES are Eau de Toilette AND most of the PERFUMES are Eau de Parfum or Eau de Toilette.

whenever I submit a question, even if it is the simplest one, they cannot provide me a good informed answer here. what happened to people that actually take the time to write an answer??