REVIEW: FAKE Victoria's Secret Mist in New Packaging

We had a very interesting day today. We decided to head to “China Town” of Davao City to look for some baskets and then we realized it must be a great time to also wander around and scout for fake VS mists and BBW if we can find one. We have been getting requests and tons of questions about it. And to our luck, we found a small store located conveniently at the center of the mini plaza. Looking from afar, Pat immediately noticed some difference; I guess I was not focusing my attention enough because I got blinded by the bright lights they surrounded their merchandise with. We started to ask for prices and the lady was kind enough to answer all of our questions. The old packaging was priced at PHP120 while the new packaging was at PHP130 each. We asked if we could get one VS old packaging and two new packaging to get their wholesale price but the lady declined. We were eyeing for a good buy especially because it will only be for the purpose of this blog. We went to the store to take some pictures and scrutinized each bottle comparing it closely to the real macoy. Here are things we noticed up close between a fake Victoria’s Secret mists compared to an original one.

You can easily notice that the real one is taller than the fake mist. The fake one also has a darker shade.

 

Look closely and you’ll notice that the cap of the fake mist is smokey almost an opaque meringue while the real one is clear. The gold bezel also has a ring-like groove at the base.

The scent descriptions of the two were also different. The fonts, the color of the ribbon near the name, the hose, the drawing were all very different.

They also got the bottom wrong. The real one leaning towards almost like a perfect circle while the fake was more oblong shaped. 

If we were to mention, the price indicated were also different. The real one tagged as USD12.00 while the fake mist was tagged USD9.00. I was thinking that they got this price from the old VS packaging.

We also smelled it just to cover every single detail of this comparison and the fake definitely proved to smell almost like an alcohol. There was a flowery scent that you may pick up but the alcohol was so strong one sprayed, I personally do not think it can last a good thirty minutes. There were a lot of texts and emails claiming that they cannot identify the difference between the real one and the fake mists nowadays. I guess I was expecting more similarity, but much to my surprise, if you are used to seeing the real ones, you will hardly be deceived by these copycats. They are in no way comparable to the real one. To end this, I’d like to say, if you are looking for an alcohol, just go get an alcohol and not a fancy looking bottle of fake VS mist that smells like a notch fancier greencross.