Nothing beats trying before you buy, and to do that the best way is to drop by a store that will let you sample its wares. In the word of fragrance, however, you may not have access to stores that offer the smells you’ve heard are worth getting a sniff of. For that there are samples! Check out my samples post, which details different sources from which to get small vials, including a list of houses that provide smaller sizes and carded samples.
For those who know more about what they want, here’s my alphabetically-ordered list of online stores that provide a large array of fragrances from different houses. Most of them focus on mainstream scents, but a few may surprise you with their availability of niche, artisan, hard-to-find, or limited edition stock. I’ve divided the list into alphabetically-ordered sections – those that deal exclusively with fragrance, those that are part of a larger network of beauty products, those that can be bought from large online department store-type retailers, so called pheromone scents, a few retailers with their own line of scent, as well as scent accessories (jewelry and bottles).
Specialty fragrance stores
- Aedes de Venustas
- Filthy Fragrance
- First in Fragrance
- Fragrance Buy Canada
- Fragrance Expert
- Fragrance Net
- Fragrance X
- Generic Perfumes
- Hott Perfume
- Indie Scents
- Lucky Scent
- Luxaworld
- Luxury Perfume
- Scent Monkey
- Parfum1
- Perfume
- Perfume Emporium
- Perfumania
- Perfumes NY
- Perfumes Raffy
- Perfume Shopping
- Sai Perfumes
- The Perfume House
- The Perfume Shop
- The Perfume Spot
- Tigerlily
- Twisted Lily
Retailers with a large scent library
- 123Stores
- Amazon
- B-Glowing
- Beauty Encounter
- Beauty Habit
- eBay
- Sephora
- Strawberry Net
- Universal Perfumes and Cosmetics
Online department stores
Pheromone scents
Retailers with their own line
Perfume accessories
- Al Wara Bottles (fancy bottles)
- Discount Vials (bottles etc.)
- Flo Accessories (travel atomizers)
- Perfumed Jewelry (jewelry to carry fragrance)
- Proud Style (bottles etc.)
- Travalo (travel atomizers)
- Proud Style (bottles etc.)