Wrong juice in bottle?

[enframing]

Received some Mancera Purple Flowers in the mail the other day from FrangranceX.com.

It smells great but did not smell to me like it had previously when I smelled my friend's bottle. Also, the juice is amber colored.

We employed a friend, who is a winemaker and a fragrance nut ("I have a big problem") with a great nose for blind-tasting and sprayed on scent strips to get his opinion. They are so different that we all think it's an entirely different perfume. The bottles look identical and we do not think it is an attempt at a fake. The winemaker tells me that occasionally the wrong juice is bottled.

Top one is mine, bottom bottle is my friend's.

 

[hednic]

See if you can get an exchange.

 

[enframing]

Eh, I already got rid of the box, which is required for a return. Also, the color of the juice matches the photo on the website, so I "knew" what I was buying. It's cool, lesson learned. Now I need to go to a shop that carries the Mancera line and see if I can figure out what it might me, which will be fun.

I buy candy from Dollar Trees and sometimes I'll get spice drops, the colored gumdrops covered in sugar, the ones in which the color is supposed to represent a flavor: red is cinnamon, orange is clove, green is spearmint, white is peppermint, &c. Sometimes the varietals are mixed up and red is mint, yellow is licorice (should be fennel). I figure this is why they end up at Dollar Tree, QC relegates the damaged ones to that store.

Anyway, this experience seems analogous. Sometimes there's a reason things get discounted, perhaps.

 

[hednic]

Eh, I already got rid of the box, which is required for a return.

Understandable. Oh well...

 

[Pippin06]

I'm sorry this happened to you, enframing.