The post began innocently: "Ranking the five niche decants I bought from a seller on here." It ended with one of the great plot twists in frag-Reddit history — all five vials, sold as five different €200+ fragrances, turned out to be the same €30 bottle.
The giveaway? He rated them all within half a point of each other and described identical drydowns, and the comments noticed before he did. A UV-light and label-peeling investigation followed. The community lives for this.
The scandal sparked a genuinely useful debate about decant culture: unregulated, trust-based, and growing fast. The subreddit's advice: buy decants only from sellers with long histories, and when a deal on five niche samples looks too good, it's one bottle wearing five name tags.
The seller was banned. The buyer, to his credit, kept wearing the €30 mystery juice: "Honestly? Still slaps."