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 the perfumer speaks in their own voice

The new issue of Making Scents Make Sense brings back a rare pleasure — listening not to a press release, but to the author’s living voice.

In the second season of The Candy Perfume Boy podcast, the first guest was Marc-Antoine Barrois — a name that has long been heard in niche perfumery not loudly, but with quiet assurance. For those who follow the contemporary auteur scene, this is an important conversation: not about a new release as a sales event, but about how a signature emerges, why some compositions remain in memory like a silhouette, while others linger like the touch of fabric against skin. Such conversations feel especially valuable now, when niche perfumery increasingly risks dissolving into its own noise. The podcast format restores a human scale to fragrance: a voice, a pause, a doubt, the precise choice of a word. Through this, the essence of the Barrois house itself becomes easier to hear — restrained, cut almost like couture, where the effect is built not on volume, but on a calibrated line, on texture, on the air between notes. This may interest not only bottle collectors, but also those who like to understand how a fragrance is constructed from within. Why leather can sound like warm suede, why woods may feel dry like chalk dust, and flowers not like a bouquet, but like light falling on fabric. When perfumery is discussed this way, it becomes craft and art again, rather than merely a list of accords. That is the character of good niche perfumery: not to explain a fragrance all the way through, but to let you come closer and hear how, behind the notes, a person begins to appear. If this manner speaks to you — soft, textured, with a quiet inner strength — it is worth experiencing [Amouage Guidance](/perfume/amouage-guidance): pear and hazelnut illuminated by olibanum, osmanthus, and rose.