Fragrance: pre-purchase judging points

For fragrance the two failures that come up most are these: batch codes that are printed on the box but absent from the bottle, and atomisers that spray a straight jet instead of a cone, which no photo can show. Both are decided by photographs a seller can take before dispatch, which is why the points below start where they do.

Fragrance is restricted by carrier rules more often than by weight, so the carrier tier you can actually use decides the freight line.

For fragrance, 6 distinct things have to be visible in the set a seller sends — beginning with one photo holding the opened carton, the bottle and the outer film label within a single frame, 30 cm from the lens, no flash, code fields legible:

• one photo holding the opened carton, the bottle and the outer film label within a single frame, 30 cm from the lens, no flash, code fields legible
• two macro photos, 15 cm from the lens, one of the carton code field and one of the bottle base, with the light angled from the side so surface relief is visible
• one macro photo per carton face at the boundary between the foil block and the printed background, plus one photo at the carton's glued seam
• one photo with the lens level with the label centre, the whole bottle in frame, the label filling at least a third of the width, background plain and uncluttered
• one macro photo of the label's densest area, 10 cm from the lens, diffuse light at 45 degrees and no flash
• one photo of the bottle from directly behind, so the back seam and the label's left and right margins are visible in the same frame

Asking for that set in one message is what the photo request wording is for. When a seller skips one of these shots, the gap surfaces first at batch code and box print: does the bottle agree with its own packaging?, which is why that point sits at the top of the list above. What each angle can and cannot show is set out on the photo limits page.

Fragrance is restricted by carrier rules more often than by weight, so the carrier tier you can actually use decides the freight line.

3 gauges cover this category, listed beside this column with the date each parameter set was last read. On fragrance orders the line that moves first is fragrance is restricted by carrier rules more often than by weight.