At Aromatica.one, we believe in complete transparency. To stay true to that statement, here is a breakdown of our costs. Many times we get questioned about our prices — and rightly so. Decanting fragrances is more complex than simply dividing a 100 mL bottle into smaller sizes. Here are the main factors we build into our pricing — and be prepared, it’s not a jolly sight!

We also apologize beforehand if the following writeup will feel like a rant. You can always choose to not read it and pick other decanters who prices their decants lower than ours.. But if you are interested in purchasing from us, or have purchased from us already and would like to know what goes into our decants, you should read more.

🔹 1. Parent Bottle Cost

Every decant begins with a genuine, sealed fragrance bottle.

• Bottle prices vary widely — from affordable designers to rare niche houses.
• Distributor prices also change rapidly based on seasonality, demand, and hype cycles.
• No matter how low or how much higher than our initial sourcing cost bottles may become later, we do not change our retail price overnight.

Why? Because stable pricing reflects our integrity. Profit or loss doesn’t matter here — keeping our word to you, our valued customers, matters more.

🔹 2. Slippage & Losses

Decanting is not 1:1. Here’s why:

• Priming sprays: Each decant atomizer is tested with 1 spray → across 15–30 decants, that’s 1–2 mL lost per 100 mL bottle.
• Residue in tools: Tiny amounts remain in pipettes/syringes.
• Evaporation & maceration: As bottles sit on shelves, alcohol evaporates. Scents actually become stronger and smoother — but volume decreases.
• Manufacturer fill levels: Not all “100 mL” bottles are truly full.

👉 Result: Around 10%+ less usable juice per bottle on average.

And sometimes it’s even worse: for example, with Dunhill Icon (one of our best-sellers), we’ve seen intact bottles straight from Dunhill measure only 80 mL inside a “100 mL” bottle.

🔹 3. Packaging & Supplies

Every decant you receive is professionally prepared with:

• Brand-new, high-quality atomizers. Bottles, Packaging
• Extra sprayers added to larger orders
• Custom printed labels (printed only after an order, never pre-stuck)
• Protective wrapping and shipping materials to ensure safe delivery
• Many customers with scummy behavior simply take advantage of deliverymen, spray the fragrance and return, which add up

These aren’t optional — they’re part of making sure your fragrance reaches you intact, hygienic, and ready to use.

🔹 4. Marketing & Customer Acquisition

This is one of the biggest unseen costs.

• Producing visuals. Graphics Design, and video contents for you.
• As of 30th September 2025, we’ve fulfilled 18000+ orders, at an average of 3 decants per order.
• Our Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) sits around 15% per decant. Yes, it’s that high.

If you’re familiar with paid ads, especially on Meta (Facebook & Instagram), you’ll know this is normal — since Meta’s new machine learning algorithms launched.

Some might say: “Why don’t you just do organic marketing?”

• Organic works for mass categories, not for niche, hard-to-scale categories like decants. To an audience here in Bangladesh with no prior knowledge of what decant means and offers to them.
• Without paid marketing, we cannot sustainably grow our inventory and expand options for our customers.

Our vision goes beyond just selling hyped releases. We want to build a library of fragrances that includes:

• Trendy, popular and latest releases.
• Sophisticated, underappreciated works of fragrance art.

For those who see perfume not just as a fashion item but as craftsmanship, we want to provide the breadth of choice that inspires discovery.

🔹 5. Operational Expenses (OPEX)

Running Bangladesh’s largest decanting service takes real infrastructure:

• Secure fragrance storage & climate care → constant electricity use
• Courier & logistics integrations to deliver on time, nationwide
• Website hosting & payment processing for smooth online orders
• Customer support & brand upkeep to serve thousands of fragrance lovers
• Finally, paying salaries of staff who depend on it. Producing 150+ decants a day takes time and effort. We are a team of 9 at the moment!

These add another ~4–5% per decant.

✅ Why It Matters

When all of this is factored in, pricing reflects much more than just “splitting a big bottle.” It covers:

• Hidden slippage & evaporation losses
• Professional packaging & presentation
• Paid marketing & outreach needed to keep prices sustainable and expand choices
• Operational costs that ensure you get a reliable, scalable service

TL;DR

• Around 22–24% of our pricing goes directly into scaling this service.
• The picture above shows what truly goes into our business — and it’s not a pretty sight.
• We are the largest decanter in Bangladesh, and we have a very good idea of what reflects true fairness for a scalable decant service.

And here’s the bottom line:
You want your decant provider to stay in business, to be someone you can trust and hold accountable. To get exchanges and return your decant/s when you are not satisfied. That’s why transparency matters — and why we share this openly with you.

🌿 Our Mission

At Aromatica.one, our mission is simple but ambitious:
to democratize access to fine fragrances – in Bangladesh.

We want every fragrance lover — whether they’re just starting out with a few milliliters or deep into exploring perfumery as an art form — to have the chance to smell, wear, and discover scents without being limited by price tags or bottle sizes.

By staying transparent, we ensure that this mission is sustainable not just for today, but for the years ahead.