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I had stopped wearing any cologne for a while,for no particular reason.

I received a gift certificate last fall and bought my old favorite L’Air du Temps,which I had worn for about 15 years.

I spent about $70.00 on this purchase and what a waste of money. Once,to test my sanity,I sprained quite a bit on my wrist. Five minutes later——nothing,no scent all.

That’s it for me.

I know the thought of buying other people's used cosmetics online sounds disgusting to a lot of people , but I've been buying vintage and/or no longer manufactured fragrances online for years. To date, I've had no mishaps (bottles broken in transit, fragrances that have "turned" in the bottle or don't smell as I remembered, suggesting the possibility of fraudulent sellers decanting cheap stuff into collectible empty bottles, etc.)

I've bought from etsy, google shopping, bonanzle, and ebay. A quick search on ebay pulls up 755 results for L'air du temps.(I pulled up over 3000 results with google shopping.) Some state it's the vintage version in the auction title. It looks as if that fragrance's bottle has been changed through the years, so a shopper could tell from the jpegs on each auction roughly what time frame it's from (eg, a 1980s or 1990s, or a new bottle).

Anyhow, that's just a possibility, and if any of you try this route, I hope you have as much success as I've had through the last 12 years of online shopping for second hand fragrances.

That happened to me years ago. I wrote to the company and they sent me another bottle to replace it. No doubt you’ve thrown yours out. I really loved that fragrance. A friend of mine in Ohio—who introduced me to it—said she isn’t having any problems with it, so I need to investigate a bit further.