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.

Yuzu in the Streetlight of Harajuku

A small gesture of joy: a familiar citrus in a new guise, with a Japanese accent and a light play of form.

Jo Malone has released a special version of Yuzu Zest for its Harajuku boutique — with packaging by Tokyo artist Shogo Sekine. At first glance, the news feels almost intimate: one fragrance, one address, one visual gesture. But it is precisely in releases like this that it becomes especially clear how perfumery today lives not only in the formula, but in the context of place. Yuzu Zest itself is built around yuzu — a citrus that smells not simply of freshness, but of the cool bitterness of zest, damp peel, delicate juice with a green gleam. This is not the sweet, lemonade-like brightness of citrus, but something drier, more taut and restless, with a clean, almost crisp texture. Harajuku matters here not as a tourist backdrop, but as an environment where an object is allowed lightness, graphic clarity, and a faint eccentricity. For those who follow niche perfumery, releases like this are interesting not because of rarity as such, but because of their intonation. Niche has long valued not volume, but nuance: how a scent meets a city, how a bottle acquires a local voice, how a familiar citrus theme suddenly begins to sound more precise and alive. This is not about collector’s greed, but about the pleasure of details — when a fragrance becomes part of a small, well-composed scene. This kind of release will most likely appeal to those who love transparent compositions, clean lines, Japanese restraint without austerity, and citruses without a sugary base. Not necessarily Jo Malone devotees; rather, those who respond to the idea that freshness can be intelligent, and decorative touches can remain light. If this theme of luminous, tactile perfumery with a clear silhouette speaks to you, we have a kindred option in mood: [Matière Première Vanilla Powder](/perfume/vanilla-powder) — coconut powder, heliotrope, Madagascar vanilla, vanilla absolute, and white musk, where instead of a citrus spark there is a soft, dry, almost airy warmth that is simply worth feeling on the skin.