If our perfume fails, we'll buy it back from you.
A longevity integrity test — not a wear or projection test.
People experience scent differently. Some noses adapt faster than others—that's normal. This tissue test removes those variables to measure true performance.
In 2006, 3M put $3 million behind bulletproof glass in a Vancouver bus stop. They told the city: "Break it, take the money."
Nobody could. Because the glass actually worked.
We're doing the same thing—but for perfume.
If your perfume doesn't last 24 hours on tissue paper, we'll buy the bottle back from you.
Not because we want to process refunds — but because tissue longevity exposes shortcuts. It tells us when a fragrance disappears because it was built to smell impressive briefly, rather than last honestly. Every returned bottle goes to our lab. Every failure teaches us something new.
Because we chose the most honest test — not the most flattering one.
No body heat to slow evaporation.
No skin oils to retain scent.
An unforgiving surface that reveals weak structures.
Tissue offers no advantages to fragrance performance — only resistance.
This test also protects against nose-blindness, one of the most common reasons people stop smelling their own perfume even when it's still present.
By placing the tissue away from your body and smelling it only at intervals, you avoid continuous exposure and olfactory fatigue. This allows you to measure presence over time, not familiarity.
Follow these steps to test your perfume's longevity. At each interval, you'll observe both air detectability (fan test) and presence (close inspection).
Spray the tissue 6 times (3 sprays each side)
Saturate it properly—we want a real test, not a whisper.
Place in a quiet corner
Away from windows, heat sources, and other fragrances to avoid contamination.
Take a photo of your setup
You'll need this if you submit a buyback claim. Show the tissue in its corner placement.
The Fan Test (Air Detectability)
Wave the tissue like a hand-held fan. Can you smell it in the air? This helps you observe air movement.
The Close Sniff (Intensity)
Bring it to your nose. How strong is it? This tells you about longevity.
The Fan Test
Still projecting? The heart notes should be developing now.
The Close Sniff
Notice how the fragrance has evolved. This is where cheap perfumes usually fade.
The Final Fan Test
Is there still projection after 24 hours on tissue?
The Final Close Sniff
Bring it close. Can you still detect the base notes?
What "Passing" Means:
Longevity means presence, not volume. If you can clearly detect base notes (woods, musks, resins) on close inspection at 24 hours, the fragrance has passed. Quiet ≠ gone. Subtle ≠ failed.
If projection style is not to your preference but the fragrance remains present on close inspection, it has passed the longevity test.
Decision Time:
✓ Still clearly detectable? Enjoy your perfume.
✗ Completely gone or barely there? Submit a buyback claim below.
We ask questions—not to gatekeep, but to learn. Every failure teaches us where our formulations need work. Help us get better.
Not to deny your claim.
To understand what went wrong.
Was it the heat? The humidity? The formulation itself? Every returned bottle goes to our lab. Every data point helps us improve for the next batch.
Performance feedback helps us improve diffusion, balance, and longevity in future batches.
We're building perfumes for India—and that means learning from real conditions in Mumbai's humidity, Delhi's dryness, Bangalore's cooler climate.
Your honest feedback makes our formulations better.
That's intentional design, not failure. A fragrance evolving into soft woods, musks, or resins after 24 hours still counts as lasting. Many of our finest ingredients—sandalwood, oud, ambrette—are quiet by nature. Longevity means presence, not projection. If you can clearly detect it on close inspection, it passed the test. If projection style matters to you, we recommend testing on clothing as well as tissue.
Yes. You'll need to ship the bottle back to us at your own cost. We'll provide the return address when you submit your claim. This keeps costs down and helps filter genuine claims from casual returns.
3-5 business days after we receive the bottle back. We'll transfer the full amount to your original payment method.
One buyback claim per customer, ever. We trust you to test honestly, so we ask that you choose carefully which fragrance to test.
We analyze them in our lab to understand what went wrong—climate conditions, storage environment, or formulation issues. We never resell returned products. They help us improve future batches.
We want the tissue properly saturated to match realistic usage. Six sprays ensures you're testing the fragrance as you would actually wear it, not testing a whisper of scent that might fade from under-application.
The test only requires 6 sprays on tissue paper, which uses less than 1 ml of perfume (our fine mist sprayer dispenses 0.13 ml per spray). We accept buyback returns with up to 2-3 ml spent. This gives you plenty of room to test properly—even multiple attempts if needed—without worrying about using too much. If significantly more than 3 ml has been used, the bottle may not qualify for buyback.
Every bottle comes with the 24-Hour Tissue Test guarantee.
We don't just talk about longevity. We test it honestly.