An undercover investigator has revealed that fake perfume bottles that claim to be made by many of the world’s top luxury labels can often be loaded with animal urine.
Detective and business investigator Tamer Bakiner claims that people across the world are endangering their own health by buying counterfeit goods, as most, if not all, are made with little to no concern for safety or health.
He said that people should quit buying them because they’re dangerous for your health, among other things they mix urine in perfumes to get the yellow colour, and that it’s disgusting.
Secondly, he said it supports a really lousy, inhumane business.
Bakiner wasn’t the only person who has warned that counterfeits could harm a person’s health.
Leo Longauer, the 54-year-old director of brand protection at luxury goods conglomerate LVHM, which operates brands including Dior, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, and Dom Pérignon, said that fake products can be quite dangerous for your health.
He said that (sun)glasses that are sold have no UV protection even though the label says that they do, and the (perfume) mixtures are loaded with animal urine, that’s why they’re so cheap to buy.
He warned that counterfeits are treated with chemicals that can cause allergies and skin irritation or rashes, and this is not to be taken lightly.
He said that people may actually be buying counterfeit products unknowingly as they’re virtually indistinguishable from genuine products, and he said that many counterfeits can hardly be distinguished from the original.
But the intellectual property enforcer warned that customers who buy counterfeit goods, knowingly or otherwise, are endangering their own health and criminals are being supported and their own economy is being disadvantaged.
He said that the working conditions of local people, for example in Turkey, China, Vietnam or India, are inhumane and don’t meet the standards in Europe and that children are also being used to work. People are being exploited, combined with human trafficking and money laundering.
The worldwide counterfeit industry is vast and profitable, and criminal networks that sell counterfeit goods usually span the world.
Counterfeit goods are frequently manufactured in more impoverished countries with substandard labour and safety laws before they’re marketed in more affluent countries with staggering markups.
Europol estimates that as much as 2.5 per cent of all global trade involves the production and sales of fake or substandard goods.
Many people don’t even care about slave or child labour being used, and if companies didn’t charge such outrageous prices in the first place, then there wouldn’t be a market for counterfeits that are almost indistinguishable.
The only difference between the kosher stuff and the counterfeit is that a top fragrance such as Burberry lasts all day, but of course, you get what you pay for – daylight robbery!
Cows urine is used in the manufacturing of leather, and Ambergris is made with whale vomit, but that’s just fine and dandy, and any secretions that come from the sex glands of an animal to give that musky scent, and the article is probably endorsed and funded by some perfume manufacturer, but to be honest, some pricey designer perfume smells like animal urine anyhow.
Coco Chanel used a secret ingredient to make Chanel №5, one of all-time most popular scents, it’s secret ingredient is cat pee, now a typical additive in numerous fragrances.
Perfume has always been considered an indulgence product, but what makes it so very expensive?
It costs millions to launch a product and create awareness around it, and they come in unique, highly sophisticated bottles, but it’s all about marketing. Someone could create the most intoxicating fragrance in the world, but if no one knows about it, nobody’s going to be buying it.
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