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.

5 fragrances with a vanilla note worth knowing

Vanilla can be different: not only dessert-like, but also dry, airy, milky, almost woody.

In these five fragrances, it speaks differently each time — through luminous flowers, soft musk, lavender, powder, and warm resin. In perfumery, vanilla is easily reduced to familiar sweetness, but it is far more interesting to observe how it changes the temperature of a composition. Sometimes it resembles a thin creamy veil; elsewhere, warm skin still carrying the scent of powder and flowers. **Parfums de Marly — Valaya** In Valaya, vanilla does not step into the foreground, but works as a soft lining beneath clean white flowers, fruit, and musk. Here it is more luminous and smooth than gourmand: like a creamy touch that rounds out the composition and makes it feel bodily, almost linen-like to the touch. **Lancôme — Idôle** Idôle is built around rose and jasmine, but the vanilla in its trail softens the chypre verticality and adds a quiet warmth to the fragrance. Because of this, the flowers do not ring out too sharply: they take on a velvety quality, like petals warmed by the palm. **Burberry — Goddess** One of the most direct and at the same time most careful conversations about vanilla in modern perfumery. Here it is layered — creamy, dry, slightly smoky — and opens especially beautifully beside lavender: not as dessert, but as golden warmth on a wool sweater. **Xerjoff Casamorati 1888 — Dama Bianca** Dama Bianca presents vanilla in a powdery, almost porcelain light. Kumquat and lime at the opening give a light shimmer, and then the fragrance moves into a soft violet haze, where vanilla sounds delicate, tender, and very calm, like pale fabric against the skin. **Amouage — Love Delight** In Love Delight, vanilla is denser and more sensual: there is sweetness here, but its texture is not sticky — rather viscous, almost resinous. Flowers and fruity nuances make the composition brighter, while vanilla holds everything together, leaving the impression of warm, насыщенный air. If you want to understand just how different vanilla can be, it is enough simply to give these fragrances a little time on the skin.