Try a perfume for a few days before you buy the bottle. And if you fall for it, the sample pays for itself: what you paid for it comes off a full bottle of the same perfume. Here's how our sample service works.
What you get
A 2 ml sample of the actual perfume. Not a scent strip, not a description, the real thing in a small spray vial. Every sample is hand-packaged to order in our store in Aarhus, so it's fresh when it reaches you.
2 ml is enough for several days of wear. That's the point. One spray in a shop tells you very little. A few days tells you everything: how it smells at 8 in the morning, how it smells after lunch, whether you still notice it in the evening, and whether you miss it when it's gone.
What it costs
Most of our samples cost between €7.95 and €11.95, depending on the perfume. A few of the rarer extraits go up to €13.95. You can add samples to any order, or order nothing but samples.
The sample pays for itself
This is the part we're proudest of. If you fall for a sample, you shouldn't have to pay twice to find out what you love. So here's how it works:
- Order a sample. Any 2 ml sample in the shop.
- Live with it. Wear it to work, to dinner, on a cold day and a warm one.
- Check your inbox. Within 7 days of your sample arriving, we'll email you a personal code.
- Love it? The sample is on us. What you paid for the sample comes off a full bottle of the same perfume.
The credit applies to a full bottle of the fragrance you sampled, not the whole order, and the code is valid for 30 days. It works on nosenotes.com, including orders you pick up in the store. All the details are here.
How to get the most out of a sample
Spray it on skin, not on paper. Your skin changes how a perfume smells, sometimes a lot. Then leave it alone for a couple of hours before you decide. The first few minutes are the top notes, and they fade fast. What stays is what you'll actually be living with.
Don't test more than three or four at a time either. After that, your nose stops telling them apart. We've written more about this in how to buy perfume without getting it wrong.
Want to try more at once?
If you're curious about a whole house, a discovery set is usually the cheapest way to try everything. And if you don't know where to start, tell our scent finder what you like and it'll point you in a direction.
Or come by the store at Badstuegade 16 in Aarhus (Tue–Fri 12–17, Sat 12–16). Smell as much as you want, take a few samples home, and decide later. Nobody's going to rush you.
The short version
Buy the sample. Wear it for a few days. If you still want it when it runs out, it's the right one, and the sample comes off the bottle.
