A decant is a small portion of perfume — typically 2 ml or 3 ml — transferred from an authentic full-size bottle into a glass vial with a sprayer. It lets you live with a fragrance for several wears before committing to a full bottle. LaScentLibrary decants are filled by hand from bottles the owner has personally purchased.

Are these perfumes authentic?

Yes. Every decant is filled from a full-size bottle that the owner has purchased from authorised retailers (boutiques in Cyprus, brand websites, niche-perfume specialty stores). We don't resell concentrates or blends — only the original juice from the original bottle.

We hand-deliver in Paphos, Cyprus, and ship across the rest of Cyprus by courier (typically 1–2 days). For shipments outside Cyprus, please contact us on Telegram @energizer1977 to arrange.

Bank transfer before shipping. After you place an order on the site or via Elena (the AI sommelière), we confirm the order and send payment details on Telegram. Once we see the transfer, we ship.

Can I get help choosing a fragrance?

Yes — the site has Elena, a multilingual perfume sommelière (Russian, English, Greek) who can suggest decants based on what you already love or the mood you're going for. You can also browse by note, by accord family, or by brand.

When niche speaks in its own voice

The lists of finalists matter no less than the winners themselves: through them, you can hear where independent perfumery is heading.

On May 1 in Los Angeles, the finalists and special mentions for the 2026 Art and Olfaction Awards were announced in the Independent and Artisan categories — an award that, for twelve years now, has served as a rare and accurate barometer of the niche scene. Unlike major industry prizes, the focus here is not on the scale of a launch or the loudness of a name, but on the authorial gesture, compositional boldness, and honesty of the material. For those who follow perfumery not as a display window but as a living craft, such lists are almost a map of the present moment. They show which themes are stirring independent brands today: silence and corporeality, dry herbs, resins, spicy woods, flowers without polish, leather without theatricality. Even the honorable mentions carry weight here: not a “near win,” but a sign that the work was noticed for its character, its signature, its ability to sustain an idea through to the final note. That is precisely the particular value of the Art and Olfaction Awards for niche lovers. They remind us that perfumery can remain not only beautiful, but personal — made not by formula, but by inner hearing. It is not necessary to agree with every choice the jury makes; what matters more is something else: the award once again gathers around itself those who can discern not merely “liked it” and “didn’t like it,” but texture, tension, light, and shadow within a composition. And if this way of speaking about perfumery as an authorial language feels close to you, we have a kindred-in-spirit fragrance: [M. Micallef Ylang in Gold](/perfume/micallef-ylang) — with caramel, rose, bergamot, ylang-ylang, and jasmine, a scent of soft gold on the skin, one simply worth trying in a 2 ml sample.