Paper is a poor liar, but it is still a liar.A blotter tells you the shape of a fragrance. It will not tell you what your skin does to it, and skin does a great deal. Temperature, moisture, what you ate, the pH of the soap you used four hours ago. The same formula on two people is two fragrances, and the gap is wide enough that what one person calls sharp another calls soft.This is why every order ships with a three millilitre tester, and why the fourteen days start when the parcel arrives rather than when it left us.Fourteen days is not a generous number chosen to sound generous. It is roughly how long it takes to wear something in three or four different conditions. Once in the cold. Once straight after a shower, when skin is warm and open and everything projects further than it will tomorrow. Once at the end of a long day, which is the honest test, because that is when a badly built base goes sour.If it is not right, the bottle goes back sealed. We would rather have the bottle than have it sitting unused on a shelf, being quietly resented.