How we compare prices

Matching the exact bottle

Perfume prices only make sense when compared like for like. We treat each combination of fragrance, concentration (for example Eau de Toilette or Eau de Parfum), size and packaging (retail box, tester, unboxed, refill, sample, gift set) as a separate product. A tester is never compared against a boxed bottle.

We match retailer listings using barcodes (GTIN/UPC/EAN) where available, checked against the listing's own size and concentration. Listings that can't be matched with confidence go to a human review queue and are not shown until someone confirms them.

Total cost

Where we know the retailer's shipping cost to the US, we add it and compare the total. If any retailer's shipping cost is unknown, we compare item prices instead and say so. We never assume shipping is free when we don't know.

Coupons that anyone can use are included in the price we show. Coupons that need something extra (a first order, a membership, a minimum spend) are listed separately and are not used to pick the cheapest offer.

Sales tax is not included because it depends on where you live.

Freshness

Every price shows when we last checked it. Prices older than 24 hours are moved to a separate section and are never shown as the best price, used in alerts, or included in search results data.

What "best price" means

The best price is the lowest total cost for an in-stock offer, among the retailers we track, at the time shown. It's not a claim about every store. Sponsored placements, if we ever have them, are labelled and kept apart from the comparison.

Price history

We chart only prices we actually recorded from the stores we track, for that exact bottle (same size, concentration and packaging). A bottle's chart appears once we have prices on at least 7 different days, spread over at least a week, with a recent price among them; until then we leave the chart out rather than show an empty one. The line is the lowest item price we recorded each day, before shipping, tax and coupon codes. Days without a recorded price are shown as gaps, never filled in. We do not import past prices from other sources, and we only call something a 30-day low when we recorded prices on at least 20 of those 30 days.

Mistakes

If you see a wrong price or a wrong match, email support@scentshunt.com. We check every report.