The TRUTH About ScentBird

hey everybody as here with Jim since and today I'm going to be talking to you about simpered everybody's favorite fragrant subscription service so for those of you that are unaware simpered is a service that you can pay 1495 per month for and they send you an 8 milliliter decant inside of a metal tube so i've got a number of these their little metal tubes that the 8 milliliter do you can't sits inside of twist like that you can spray it or pull it out and switch it with a new one so that's what you get when you sign up for a simpered going of those and then each month for 1495 you get a new little 8 milliliter d-- can't but i'm not here to sell you separate today i am actually here to tell you why I think simpered sucks so let's go ahead and jump into this and I'll go over why I don't really like simpered so I'm pretty sure every single one of you out there has seen at least one simpered at whether on YouTube or Facebook and you've probably seen over 15 of them realistically simpered really got themselves out there with very aggressive marketing on YouTube with influencers I even did a video for them a really long time ago and I'll go ahead and leave that video up just for posterity SiC basically if you have had a youtube channel for any amount of time that deals with fragrances makeup Beauty grooming style any of the above sometimes even stuff that has nothing to do with fragrance like gaming simpered has reached out to you I mean I do get very stupid sponsorship requests sometimes home chef has been emailing me non-stop for the past month asking me to do a home chef video I've had people ask me to do watch videos jewelry videos glasses videos whiskey Stone videos just random crap but simpered really takes the cake they have emailed me for the past probably year asking me to do another separate video they've offered to send me a couple of their fragrances in the little 8 mil tcats like I care and they upped the ante here recently by offering me $100 plus some of their deke aunts or travel atomizers whatever you want to call them and instead of negotiating with them and trying to get a higher price or taking the $100 or whatever I decided I would rather just make a video where I tell people what I really think about simpered instead of making a fake video where i hype them and this is not a video made to crap on the smaller channels that make videos for simper or sponsored by Sanford I understand what it's like have a small Channel and to finally be recognized by literally anybody it's really exciting so it's not really a surprise that a lot of those smaller channels do jump at the chance to work with semper so this video is nothing against them so if you search for scent bird or simpered reviews on YouTube most of those videos follow a pretty similar blueprint it's usually some variation of scent bird is it worth it 10 things I couldn't live without featuring scent bird some variation of to smell good or why your fragrance doesn't smell great or the ever-popular simpered an unbiased review sponsored by simpered and the reason a lot of those videos follow a similar pattern is because simpered actually sends out talking points to influencers when they make a video so they send out a sheet basically that tells the influencer this is what you're going to make since we sent you a couple fragrances and maybe a hundred bucks or maybe two hundred bucks who knows and those talking points are great because in essence you're just shooting a scent bird commercial for them where they sent you something that probably cost them five dollars in terms of the fragrance and shipping and they get a free commercial out of it because you're just reading off exactly what they want you to just maybe putting your own tiny twist on it this is one of the actual talking point sheets that they like to send out to people you got those great talking points smelling great is always a top priority it's a powerful way to feel more confident and attractive in no time fall is coming so you'll need to step up your a-game if you want to smell great all season long stocking up on cologne can be expensive you don't want to risk shelling out all that cats only to get stuck with the scent you get sick of there's a better solution guys try scent bird a subscription service that lets you choose a new cologne every month for just 1495 so yeah if some of this stuff sounds familiar from some of the videos that you may have watched from simpered this is the reason why I also really like how they have YouTube guidelines for the videos must be first or second mention linked in the description above the fold with coupon code and link fragrances mentioned no travel too limited use no what's in my bag mention is too brief and gets lost no unrelated favorites like hygiene favorites etc because it doesn't convert and they've also got some great video concepts there for you that you can use in your commercial for simpered so let's go ahead and break simper down a little bit here first we'll start with the price so the price they charge you again $15 per month it's not like that's a super expensive subscription service or anything you get eight milliliters of fragrance each month for that so that works out to a dollar eighty seven per milliliter that's in essence what you were paying now you would probably think that's a pretty good deal you know fifteen dollars again not all that much but when you factor out the cost versus the value of what you're getting it's a piss-poor deal at least for pretty much everything on their website really price wise the only thing that makes a lot of sense are some of the nice fragrances they carry which really they don't carry that many as of this video they have four um wash so those would be a decent deal at fourteen ninety five slash fifteen dollars per month they have coroner Barcelona that would be an okay deal they also have an artiste fragrance that would be an okay deal but most of the people that use this service don't know about in these fragrances so they're probably not getting in wash they're probably not getting coroner Barcelona not getting artiste and honestly they probably don't want it from almost everything that I read from people that use this service they're usually getting stuff like Burberry Versace Gucci stuff like that and and those are pretty much piss-poor deals all the way around so let's go over some of the pricing just per millilitre really quickly and I'm looking at the men's fragrance this year if you're looking at women's fragrances you can do this on your own just go to a fragrance net or some other website that sells discounted fragrances and do some contrasting and comparing ok Versace arrows as of this video on fragrance net 100 milliliter bottle $50 39 cents that's about 50 cents per milliliter and that's one of the more expensive fragrances they have in terms of designers on their website so with that one you're paying about three and a half times per milliliter for the simper than you would for the bottle and if you get a tester it's 44 72 about 45 cents per milliliter and that's not even touching on some of the fragrances that are bestsellers that are actually super super cheap stuff like Ferragamo F black which you can pick up a full 100 milliliter bottle or about $24 so 24 cents per milliliter or if you don't want a 100 mil you can pick up a 50 mil which is 1.7 ounces for 17 dollars $2 more than your monthly subscription and you can have a full bottle or fragrance like Burberry Brit 3086 for a 100ml about 31 cents per milliliter or you can pick up a tester same size for 24 bucks or one of their new releases that they have English laundry London which is on their website right now as like I said a new arrival you can buy that for twenty to forty seven for a full bottle 100 milliliters 3.4 ounces for twenty to forty seven about twenty two cents per milliliter so when you really break it down it's not that great of a deal like I said it's actually a piss-poor deal unless you're looking at the niche fragrances like I'm wash I'm lost reflection you can buy a full bottle on fragrance net for 146 24 that's a dollar 46 per milliliter so that gets you closer to how much you're actually paying it's still less per milliliter than simpered is but at least it's in the same ballpark now a lot of you right now are gonna say oh but I like the lipstick atomizer that it comes in because it's easy to carry around that's fair enough I guess but the lipstick atomizer really isn't that big of a deal you can pick those up for about a quarter from China if you do some looking you can find those all of our websites in China it's not really like it's super high quality and honestly these atomizers kind of suck they're really not that good they give out a little puff of fragrance yeah you see I'm assuming you can see that the atomizer is low quality another thing that happens all the time with these at least 40% of the time at least from the ones that they sent me for review back in the day and I did actually check with somebody that has a scent Berg now and they confirm still the same way is the the decamp will get stuck inside this tube all the time a lot of these are faulty and again that's because these are just really cheap things pumped out in China so what will happen is you know it'll twist and open and close like so but when you try to pull it out this happens oh and that happens all the time with these when you go to pull the D can't out the top just comes off and then you have to try to really work the D can't the little glass tube inside to pull it and sometimes it's just damn near impossible you can't get it out no matter what you do they're just stuck in there permanently mm-hmm none of you I don't know how well that shows up eh you can see the little atomizer down in there you pop it back on give it a spray so it's on there nice and tight try to pull it off Oh so the atomizers themselves are just crap quality it's not like you're paying for something that's you know a top of the line you know what's a better idea than paying $15 for these every single month going to your local Sephora and getting six milliliters of fragrance for free anytime you want that works at any Sephora including Sephora inside Stacey penny you can go in any of the fragrances that they have you can ask the people that work there hey can I get some samples of these and they'll make you up samples right there on the spot up to three each time you go so if you're on the fence about something you want to give it some awareness before you commit to a full bottle go to Sephora and do that or go to Nordstrom or they have those same plastic sample sprays at Sephora but they just have them laid out where you can take them and make your own samples of whatever you want in there including more expensive news fragrances so if you have a Nordstrom nearby just do that save yourself some money and honestly get better fragrances at the same time or really just go to about any reputable place that carries fragrances and ask them for a carded sample of something if they don't have the little sample space like Sephora and Nordstrom just tell them you're wanting to give a fragrance multiple wears before you commit to a bottle or another thing you can do go to Mac's aroma they have the exact same eight milliliter lipstick atomizers four tonnes of fragrances on their website underneath the pocket perfume section for less money than simper so it's the exact same product only for less and with a better selection or try out some fragrances in stores give it a wearing on your skin and decide whether you like it or not if you do save up just a tiny bit more money buy a full bottle off the internet then you have something that's actually going to last that you didn't get ripped off on I mean he'll buy your own decamp bottles off of ebay they have five milliliter and ten milliliter empty bottles buy those and make your own travel sprays if it's that important and honestly their selection is not that good I know that in their talking points it says they have four hundred and fifty perfumes and colognes two choose from but most of those aren't that good or they are good but they're really really really cheap if you would just buy the bottle yourself so you're losing their two because you're paying five to eight times what it's actually worth I mean take a look at their website and see what they don't have there is no Christian Dior there's no Creed there um wash selection is really small they're tomforde selection is almost non-existent they don't have our money they don't have John Paul Gautier they don't really have too much of anything as far as nice nd fragrances go they don't have girl on they don't have RAL Corinne I mean really when you start going down and breaking down what they don't have compared to what they do a lot of stuff that you're going to want is not going to be there most of the stuff that they have is sticking with those cheaper houses again this is no offense to loan because some of the fragrances are really really nice but stuff like Burberry John Varvatos Tommy Bahama Vince Camuto stuff like that and some of these fragrances are just completely random they have a house called confessions of a rebel which sounds kind of neat but if you go to their website both of their fragrances shows sold out and both say sample this on simpered with a link to simpered there's no information on these fragrances at all online there's nothing on fragrant eeka there's really nothing at all except for that website and simpered so for all I know these are fragrances that simpered is behind themselves but maybe despite all this you still would like to give simper to try you should also know that simpered has an F rating from the Better Business Bureau just straight-up F and if you go to the triple B and you look up scent bird they actually have a warning on their site pertaining to sin bird which says this Better Business Bureau files indicate a pattern of complaints concerning delivery fulfillment and customer service issues for scent bird ink consumers are telling Better Business Bureau about problems they encounter after claiming a free trial offer or purchasing a subscription to a monthly supply of fragrances for 1495 a month many consumers claim they still haven't received the merchandise from the company even though weeks have passed since the order was placed numerous consumers reportedly encounter a lot of difficulty getting a response from the company about the status of their orders despite multiple attempts to reach them by email and Facebook several consumers that are able to interact with company representatives claim they are told that there were errors with the shipment and their items would be soon sent out to them consumers also report difficulty in canceling the monthly subscription fees as well as obtaining a refund of these charges from the company in the last 12 months in / it has 446 complaints against them on the Better Business Bureau there are people complaining about being charged and never being sent anything people being double charged orders coming months late orders coming with things missing that people have already paid for and this happens with crazy regularity to the point that some people online consider simpered just be a straight-up scan their customer service is basically non-existent unless you threaten them and then you may get a response checking on the website there's no phone number to reach them at and you have to just go to a contact us form fill it in and then send it off and hope that somebody will actually respond to you usually though they'll just ignore you it reviews from unbiased sights on simpered are almost universally horrible and simper does do a good job of having a lot of fake reviews pop up on websites like Influenster that tries to make them look much better than they actually are which is a common tactic of companies that have crap customer service and some of you out there may be subscribed to simpered right now and you may not have had to deal with any of this yet but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist as an example there are people that smoke every single day for their entire life and never get cancer what that doesn't mean that there aren't tons of people out there who smoked and did get cancer if you've got simpered right now you're playing with fire all these other people have already been burned you could be next so yeah my opinion on simpered don't use them don't sign up for their free trial don't do it their customer service sucks you're gonna be paying $15 for eight milliliters of fragrance and a really crappy atomizer from China and really you could pay with some of these fragrances two dollars more and get a full bottle on average you're being charged about five to eight times the actual value of the cost per milliliter in comparison to how much you could buy it online you also run the risk of being charged for something and never having it arrive being double charged or having things be delayed for months with no explanation all the influencers you see high being semper will never have to deal with any of those problems that I just talked about but you might influencers are getting cash and recognition in order to sell this to you using a sheet that Sanford provides them so anytime you see one of those unbiased reviews where they talk about how awesome it is remember that you're watching a commercial simpered sucks it's trash I'll never use it and realistically none of the influencers that hype this would use it either I mean if it weren't for the cash so that is my take on simpered thank you guys so much for watching please like comment subscribe I'll see you guys again next time [Music] you

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Id: GPPR25boTW4

Length: 17min 6sec (1026 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 26 2018