Decant NotesConcentrations, shades and price per millilitre

Perfume and make-up

Budget and prices

What the total comes to once everything is counted.

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A square cobalt blue cut-glass perfume atomiser with a rubber tube and tasselled bulb — A vintage atomiser: squeezing the net-covered bulb pushes scent through the tube as a fine mist.Photo: Takkk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

A square cobalt blue cut-glass perfume atomiser with a rubber tube and tasselled bulb

Budget and prices

What perfume and make-up really cost you per use

Divide the price by the uses, not by the millilitres. Worked cost-per-use sums for fragrance, foundation, mascara and lipstick, plus delivery and VAT.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 8 min

Photo: Takkk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons