Hand-decanted — shipped across Canada
Perfume decants, in sizes you can actually live with.
We buy full retail bottles and split them by hand into 5 ml, 10 ml and 30 ml glass sprays. Same liquid, a fraction of the outlay, and enough of it to wear a fragrance for weeks before deciding whether it deserves a whole bottle.
- Sourced
- Filled from full retail bottles we buy ourselves. No testers, no refills.
- Sizes
- 5 ml, 10 ml and 30 ml glass atomizers.
- Shipping
- Ground shipping across Canada. Free over $50 CAD.
- Tested here
- Longevity and projection on every page, with our own wear notes as we test them.
In stock now
Decants currently on the shelf
A short list on purpose. Everything here is a bottle we own and are actively decanting from, rather than a catalogue of things we could order in.
Azzaro The Most Wanted Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Azzaro's The Most Wanted, released in 2022, is an amber Parfum available here as a hand-filled...
Byredo Bal d'Afrique Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Byredo's Bal d'Afrique, released in 2009, is a woody EDP available here as a hand-filled decant,...
Byredo Bibliothèque Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Byredo's Bibliothèque, released in 2017, is a fruity EDP available here as a hand-filled decant, so...
Byredo Mojave Ghost Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Byredo's Mojave Ghost, released in 2014, is a woody EDP available here as a hand-filled decant,...
Clive Christian Blonde Amber Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Clive Christian's Blonde Amber, released in 2022, is an amber Parfum available here as a hand-filled...
Clive Christian No.1 Masculine Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Clive Christian's No.1 Masculine, released in 2001, is a woody Parfum available here as a hand-filled...
Creed Aventus Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Creed's Aventus, released in 2010, is a fruity EDP available here as a hand-filled decant, so...
Creed Bois du Portugal Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Creed's Bois du Portugal, released in 1987, is a woody EDP available here as a hand-filled...
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Why buy from us
Every fragrance here gets worn in a real Canadian winter.
Note pyramids are copied from the same three websites by everyone selling decants, and they tell you almost nothing about how a fragrance behaves once it is on skin. What we can tell you is how it performs here — the Prairies run from about −30 °C in January to +30 °C in July, which is a wider swing than almost anywhere else fragrance gets reviewed.
As wear notes accumulate they go on the product pages: how long it lasted, how far it carried, and whether the cold flattened it.
January
Cold suppresses projection. Fragrances that read as loud in a shop can sit flat against skin under a parka, and the heavier, resinous ones tend to be the only things still detectable by afternoon.
July
Heat does the opposite and pushes everything outward. The same fragrance that needed four sprays in winter can be too much at two, and sweeter compositions in particular turn cloying fast.
Choosing a size
How much fragrance is actually in a decant?
Spray counts vary with the atomizer and how heavily you spray, so treat these as close estimates rather than promises. They are enough to work out which size matches how you intend to wear it.
5 ml
Two to three weeks of regular wear. The right size for finding out whether a fragrance genuinely suits you, which is a different question from whether you liked it on a card in a shop.
10 ml
Roughly a month and a half of regular wear. Our most common size, and the one to pick if you already know you like the fragrance and want to wear it through a season.
30 ml
A genuine bottle's worth without the bottle. Makes sense for a signature scent, or for anything priced high enough that a full retail bottle is hard to justify.
Before you buy
Everything worth knowing about decants
Written to answer the questions we actually get asked, rather than to fill a blog.
The short version, and why the liquid is identical to what is in the bottle.
Decant sizes explainedSpray counts for 5 ml, 10 ml and 30 ml, and how long each one actually lasts.
Are decants authentic?How to verify a decant, and what to ask a seller before ordering.
Decants vs. full bottlesA cost breakdown, including when a full bottle is genuinely the better buy.
How to store decantsHeat, light and cold, and what a Canadian winter does to fragrance left in a car.
How we decantThe process, the equipment, and what we do to avoid contaminating a bottle.
Shipping across CanadaWhy fragrance travels by ground only, and what that means for delivery times.