13 yo DD has asked for a bottle of Dior perfume for Christmas.....

[BaconAndAvocado]

.......to which I replied a firm No.

I’ve bought her a bottle of Nina Ricci. A third of the price.

One of my friends however didn’t think there was anything wrong in this.

To me, she’s far too young for something like this.

Like most of her friends, she does wear a bit of make up but obviously nothing high end.

Thoughts?

Miss Dior is for ‘young’ women shall we say.. like Mademoiselle by Chanel. 13 is young but I would have no objection to buying it for her if the cost wasn’t an issue. I’d much rather she had good taste & something she really loved to use. Xo

@Summerfun54321

Kids know far too much about brands now through social media. I didn’t even know what Dior was at 13 and just had a bottle of impulse body spray like the rest of my friends! Focus on the budget and make her save for it.

Impulse body spray is disgusting though. I’d rather buy my dc a fragrance that doesn’t make me gag.

Well it just shows you how personal perfume is to each person because multiple people here say Miss Dior is for young women and an “inoffensive” perfume. I think it’s horrible and just couldn’t imagine someone young wearing it.

Goodness, I remember those teenage years when the label was so much more important than the actual 'thing'. My parents refused to buy things with labels so I started babysitting and bought them myself.

That's why I now know, as an adult, that it's just branding.

Let her have the one she covers. Please.

She obviously wants something special and at 13, will always remember her first bottle of Dior. Buy it for her.

I don't see anything wrong with this. I've just bought my 13 year old DD a bottle of Miss Dior for Christmas and got 20% off in John Lewis.

Fragrance is certainly special when growing up,I remember my progression well from Avon Pretty Peach,AquaManda,kiku,xanadu,the original Charlie before I progressed to my first 'real ' perfumes Miss Dior and O de lancome.Still love perfume today but try it out before investing with the tiny samples which are great.

@Summerfun54321

Kids know far too much about brands now through social media. I didn’t even know what Dior was at 13 and just had a bottle of impulse body spray like the rest of my friends! Focus on the budget and make her save for it.

We absolutely knew our brands in the mid-90s thanks to marvellous things called magazines. They were like Instagram but printed on shiny paper and passed around the classroom and the school bus We weren’t bothered about Dior simply because it didn’t have a product that was marketed at young teens back then. Chanel was the first big French house to pursue a younger market with Coco Mademoiselle and then Chance.

@mam0918

I'm surprised everyone saying Nina Ricci is an 'old lady', I've never heard that before... my DH loves it (I can't really smell it) but I'm pretty confident in saying he isn't a granny chaser lol he like it because its what girls wore when he was a teen.

I'm pretty sure I agree that several friends actually had it in school, it's the one in the apple-shaped bottle right? and I was the weird one for wearing Poison which was deemed old lady back then lol.

It might not be 'cutting edge' now as that was 16 years ago but it's hardly Yardleys and Old Spice lol.

Great so 50 year old men will love the way she smells

You had the opportunity to make her happy, create a special memory, and for her to feel lovely and special every day when she put it on.

Instead she'll feel disappointment on Christmas morning and very uncool that she smells like her mum!

Poor girl.

Don't know if anyone has already said this but what about a smell-a-like perfume? My daughter and I love them. She is 13 too.

Don't know if anyone has already said this

The customary way to find out what has already been said is to read the thread before posting …

I'm probably totally out of touch but I'm 53yrs old and have never had a bottle of perfume costing more than £10.

Odd thread. We were very cash strapped when I was a teen but my Ma always wore Chanel No 5.

I’ve been wearing “posh” scent since I was a teen (gift from Grandparents). Scent substitutes are just a random concept to me.

My sister and I currently both wear Chanel Beige (hate the name) and have to coordinate when we go out together so as not to smell too alike!

It would be a firm no here too

@Harmonypuss

I'm probably totally out of touch but I'm 53yrs old and have never had a bottle of perfume costing more than £10.

Where do you buy your perfume?

@THEDEACON

It would be a firm no here too

Why? Do you think 13 years old is too young for any kind of perfume? Or is it the price?

@Harmonypuss

I'm probably totally out of touch but I'm 53yrs old and have never had a bottle of perfume costing more than £10.

Sad

LiterallyKnowsBest

Don't know if anyone has already said this

The customary way to find out what has already been said is to read the thread before posting …

That was unnecessary- there are 11 pages, and the poster was offering a solution.

This is what my mum does. You say what you’d like and buys a cheaper alternative and tries to convince you it’s better in some way. She actually sieges a lot but it’s made up of so much shite, I’d rather have one really nice thing than 10 pieces of absolute cheap crap that I don’t want and won’t use.

@EyesAsGreenAsAFreshPickledToad @thisplaceisweird

It's not sad.

I've not bought a bottle of perfume in well over a decade and have far more important things to spend what little money I have on.

No-one else buys it for me either, partly because partner of 7yrs has never bought me anything, not even a bunch of flowers and because I can't see the point of perfume.

I am the wrong person to ask - I love perfume and wear it every day

As long as I could afford it and that's what she really wanted (rather than a spur of the moment I'll have that but has no idea what she has asked for scenario) I would have bought it and not Nina Ricci

But that said I have perfumes from £10-300 and each one I love for a different reason

Would you have been happier to buy say Ugg slippers or lots of tatt ?

[quote Harmonypuss]**@EyesAsGreenAsAFreshPickledToad* @thisplaceisweird*

It's not sad.

I've not bought a bottle of perfume in well over a decade and have far more important things to spend what little money I have on.

No-one else buys it for me either, partly because partner of 7yrs has never bought me anything, not even a bunch of flowers and because I can't see the point of perfume.[/quote]
And you don't feel at all sad about that? Not even a little bit?

Surely if money is tight, just a treat from your Partner would be nice? He's never brought you anything? ☹️

[quote Harmonypuss]**@EyesAsGreenAsAFreshPickledToad* @thisplaceisweird*

It's not sad.

I've not bought a bottle of perfume in well over a decade and have far more important things to spend what little money I have on.

No-one else buys it for me either, partly because partner of 7yrs has never bought me anything, not even a bunch of flowers and because I can't see the point of perfume.[/quote]
I didn’t say it was sad. I was just asking where you can buy perfume for under £10.

Although I do think it’s sad that your partner hasn’t bought you anything in 7 years.

Her age doesn't have anything to do with what perfume she can/cannot wear. It's literally just a smell. I can understand not wanting her to be "spoiled", but as others have suggested, if you can afford it, I would explain to her that money isn't infinite and so choosing the more expensive perfume will mean significantly less presents overall. If it means a lot to her, she'll say so, if it's just a passing fancy because her friends like it, she might reconsider when faced with the prospect of getting more gifts. If you simply give her the one she doesn't want, just because you don't believe the brand/price is age appropriate, then I imagine she will be really confused, disappointed, and probably rather miffed off, and then use any money she gets to buy it for herself anyway and hide it from you for fear of judgement.