Hand-decanted in Winnipeg — 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, plus full bottles.
- Shipping
- Ground from Winnipeg across Canada and the US. Free over $50 CAD.
- Tested here
- Wear notes taken at −30 °C and +30 °C, not copied from a database.
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...
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 Silver Mountain Water Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Creed's Silver Mountain Water, released in 1995, is a fresh EDP available here as a hand-filled...
Dior Sauvage Elixir Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Dior's Sauvage Elixir, released in 2021, is an amber Elixir available here as a hand-filled decant,...
Giardini di Toscana Bianco Latte Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Giardini di Toscana's Bianco Latte, released in 2019, is a gourmand EDP available here as a...
Le Labo Santal 33 Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Le Labo's Santal 33, released in 2011, is a woody EDP available here as a hand-filled...
Louis Vuitton City of Stars Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Louis Vuitton's City of Stars is a fresh EDP available here as a hand-filled decant, so...
Louis Vuitton Imagination Decant — 5ml / 10ml / 30ml Sample
Louis Vuitton's Imagination, released in 2021, is a fresh EDP available here as a hand-filled decant,...
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Why buy from Winnipeg
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 — Winnipeg runs 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.
Full bottle
Some fragrances are worth committing to outright. Where we can source them we list the full bottle alongside the decants, in its original packaging rather than decanted.
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.