Samples in magazines

[musicman1951]

What is with those folded over pages in magazines with samples of frags? I've tried a handful and they all smell unpleasant.

What am I actually smelling? The top notes? The top notes mixed with magazine paper smell?

Do these actually help anyone find a frag?

 

[john parker]

Suspect top notes mixed with magazine paper smell, but no definitive proof. My impression is that they all smell alike; wouldn't buy any of them based on magazine samples and probably wouldn't if smelled from the bottle.

 

[lowcountry_sc]

Wondered the exact same thing. Great minds think alike (or dummies never differ)...

 

[Matt555]

It is also mixed with the adhesive smell holding the magazine fold together. Magazines smell funky to begin with. A total mess.

 

[rum]

Gross!!

Do they still use this marketing strategy? I've not seen it for a while...

 

[michiganlover]

Gross!!

Do they still use this marketing strategy? I've not seen it for a while...

Yes!! I saw a tester for Aqua Di Gio about two months ago in a magazine aimed towards women.

 

[rum]

Hmm... maybe I should start buying/reading more magazines!!

 

[musicman1951]

Esquire seems to have a preponderance of these. I resist as long as I can and always regret my unsatisfied curiosity.

 

[rum]

I know exactly what you mean!

I have to say though, I did discover perhaps one of my best perming AS balms in a magazine. They had a complete sample of L'Oreal's HydraSensitive MenExpert 24Hr hydrating balm in ShortList, a well-known magazine in London. The minute I tried that on, even though I hadn't shaved, I knew it would be good. And I was right.