FINALLY, Amazing Grace gets mentioned! The change in their formula has wasted my money, time and the compliments on my scent whenever I went out have disappeared. I was told that the diluted scent happened when Coty took over. But the same thing has happened to me with Jessica Mcclintock. It doesn’t last, and it’s no longer in production. That perfume has the most exhilarating notes for my nose. But from what I’ve been reading, all of the notes that I love best are being banned. I need to find a new signature scent now. I love Chanel Crystalline Eau Verte but that lasts 5 minutes on me.

AMEN! I feel the same about Amazing Grace by Philosophy. It used to be a lovely fragrance and now its almost unscented and that goes for a lot of their fragrances in the Grace line. There have been thousands of the same complaints to Philosophy and to QVC and neither has answered the question but now we know why. It’s a shame because people are spending hard earned money of what used to be a beautiful fragrance just to end up spending more money to return the item. Just be straight up with the customers, you changed the formulation and now it sucks!

Sorry honey I feel your pain aswell ):

I know this comment is from forever ago, but as a member of the healthcare industry, I have to mention that all things need to be taken with a grain of salt. Natural does not equal “good” or “safe” and synthetic does not equal “bad” or “cancer”. E. Coli, Salmonella, any number of viruses….these are all natural; but you don’t want them in or around you if you can help it. On the other hand, the development of synthetic insulin and thyroid hormones have saved millions of lives; as many people could not tolerate naturally derived versions from cows or pigs, which yielded lots that weren’t exactly the same from one batch to another, and they are now readily available to all who need them. It’s the same with perfumes. Everything has it’s pluses and minuses.

Companies have been doing “reserve lines” and the like (variations on an existing scent are more generally called “flankers”) for eons, so no, that isn’t a direct response to the reformulation really. And bear in mind that any flanker also has to adhere to IFRA standards, and they’re usually limited edition. Sometimes they’re more expensive and they actually use the extra money on the formula, but sometimes not.