Free Fragrance Samples: Nordstrom & Allure

Monday, October 27th, 2008 | Fragrance, Free Stuff, Stores

Allure November 2008 issue

The latest issue of Allure, the November 2008 issue featuring Eva Longoria, is a veritable minefield of fragrance samples, ranging from Calvin Klein’s Secret Obsession to Paris Hilton’s new Fairy Dust. One of the best things about this issue of Allure, though, is the Beauty 101 guide to perfumes.

The Beauty 101 section in Allure usually features how-to cards with lists of recommended products on the back, but in this issue, the cards instead feature special fragrance offers from Nordstrom! Allure teamed up with Nordstrom to bring us these fragrance offers for Nordstrom’s Fragrance Festival event. Many of the tear-out cards are essentially vouchers for free perfume samples, redeemable at Nordstrom’s fragrance counters. [Warning, not all counters carry all the fragrances.]

Harajuku Lovers sampler

The free fragrance samples that caught my eye were the new Harajuku Lovers scents (you get a set of all 5 fragrances arranged together on a cute card), Juicy Couture’s Viva La Juicy, and the SheWood/HeWood fragrances by DSquared. Unfortunately my Nordstrom fragrance counter did not carry DSquared, because it is a smaller store, although I was still able to easily redeem my vouchers for the other nice samples.

It’s too bad the information printed on the other side of the sample vouchers is actually very interesting information about perfumes, but these sample offers are just too good to pass up. Go out and get your scent samples today! I’d recommend either picking up only the fragrance samples you’re truly interested in, so that the Nordstrom sales associates won’t hate you, or just making several trips for free samples wearing different wigs and sunglasses. Sniff! Sniff!