Taking Fragrant Matters Into Their Own Hands

Why wait around for some lug to buy you perfume when you can buy it yourself? A survey by The NPD Group finds women acting on that principle. Among those who use fragrances, 49 percent have purchased three or more bottles for themselves within the past year. Likewise, the boom in sales of perfume gift sets is due largely to women buying these as gifts for themselves. (“Oh, I shouldn’t have!”) Thanks to all this avid buying, “most women who wear fragrance own six bottles of scent or more.”