2025 Purchases

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If you’re on TikTok, you’ve probably seen those end-of-month videos where fragrance lovers confess everything they bought in the last thirty days. I didn’t make that many perfume purchases in 2025, so instead of monthly reckonings, here’s one full accounting of the year.

All told, I added 29 fragrances to my collection. I’m not counting anything I bought for my husband, and I’m also excluding samples and travel sprays--this list is full bottles only. Paying full retail isn’t really my thing, so most of these came from discounters, coupon codes, or overseas vendors (at least before the de minimis exemption met its untimely demise). There were seven purchases made at a brick-and-mortar boutiques where retail prices were unavoidable, but the rest were bought at a discount.

Here’s the damage:

• 1907 Vanilla Dry — $136.89

• 4160 Tuesdays Rhubarb & Custard — $180

• Al-Rehab French Coffee — $7.99

• Buchart Colbert Faison D'Or — $148

• Byredo Gypsy Water — $174.99

• Calvin Klein Obsession — $19.19

• Chanel Paris-Edimbourg — $123

• Dolce & Gabbana The Only One EDP Intense — $62.99

• D.S. & Durga Wear at Maximum Volume — $250

• Diptyque L’Eau Papier — $102.66

• Gallagher Mists of Time — $115

• Heeley Palm — $156.60

• Hellenist Les Bras de Morphée — $48

• Henrik Vibskov L’Eau Rouge Nature — $127

• Hermès Barénia — $73.38

• J-Scent On a Cloud — $79.50

• Kerosene Winter of ’99 — $164

• Liis Ethereal Wave — $175

• Marissa Zappas Annabel’s Birthday Cake — $131.25

• Memo Eau de Memo — $99.70

• Miller et Bertaux Tulsivivah! — $124.20

• Nasomatto Absinth — $89.99

• Odin 01 Sundara — $165

• Oriza L. Legrand Empire des Indes — $178.50

• Escentric Molecules Molecule 01 + Mandarin — $129.19

• Perfumer H Rain Wood — $146.66

• Pineward Tome — $80

• Sarah Baker Peach’s Revenge — $265

• Trudon Bruma — $205.33

The total comes to approximately $3,759, assuming I didn’t fat-finger the calculator (entirely possible). That may sound like a lot, but I know people who spend that in a single month. I will not be naming names.

There’s another side to this ledger, though. In 2025, I sold 25 rare and discontinued fragrances on eBay, grossing just over $5,000. After taxes, shipping, and fees took their cut, the actual payout landed at $3,453. If I treat that resale income as my fragrance budget, then my out-of-pocket cost for all those new bottles was just $306.

By that math, I did pretty well in 2025.

Unfortunately, this particular trick won’t work again in 2026. I’ve already sold off just about every bottle in my collection that anyone might reasonably want to pay serious money for. Which means next year’s tally, if there is one, will look very different.

And probably much more painful. 

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Posted by theminx on Minxstinks
Note: this post is my opinion. I am not affiliated with the companies mentioned in this post or any other companies.