Why Some Perfumes are So Expensive

Extraordinarily expensive perfumes are expensive not because the branding is so posh (think Chanel, for example) but of their ingredients. If the ingredients are natural & it takes a trip to some odd country to pick the hard-to-find bloom, you're going to pay for it. Natural ingredients, such as tuberose & jasmine, are quite pricey. Real ingredients that are easier to come by or synthetic fragrances cost a lot less.

There has always been a trade in scents and by the year 2008 perfume had become a $10 billion industry. Today women have fragrance wardrobes of at least six different perfumes, rather than a single signature perfume, keeping one special perfume for occasion moments. http://beauty.about.com/od/fragrance/f/fancyperfume.htm