Perfume decant cost per ml in Europe, 2026: what shops charge at 1 to 3ml, 5ml and 10ml

Every price figure is a median of the listed prices, with the shops and prices behind it printed beside it. The perfumes differ from shop to shop, so none of these medians is a market price. Euro prices are compared with euro prices only.

What a perfume decant costs per ml in Europe

On 22 October 2026, shops across Europe listed 10ml decants at a median €4.40/ml¹, 5ml decants at €5.00/ml¹ and decants of 1 to 3ml at €5.99/ml¹ (euro prices with VAT included, shipping excluded).

These medians come from 10ML's check of rival decant shops that sell in euros. The 1 to 3ml row rests on 24¹ shops and 165¹ listed prices, the 5ml row on 23¹ shops and 107¹ prices, and the 10ml decant row on 22¹ shops and 103¹ prices.

The middle half of the prices is wide. The last column of the table shows the range for each size band, so one shop's price says little about the median of the listed prices.

The perfumes differ from shop to shop, mostly niche and prestige designer perfumes, so the medians describe what was listed, not one common basket. A price list that a shop sells into several markets counts once.

For the wider picture, see 10ML's perfume market and prices research. For what trying a scent costs in other formats, see the price per ml of perfume samples, travel sprays and discovery sets. If the term is new, what a perfume decant is explains it.

How the price per ml changes with the size of the decant

The bigger the decant, the lower the median price per ml: €5.99/ml¹ for 1 to 3ml, €5.00/ml¹ for 5ml and €4.40/ml¹ for 10ml decants, the last from 22¹ shops.

The chart shows the same direction for the perfumes 10ML stocks, from the 10ML Price-per-ml Index. The index median for 3ml decants is €3.30/ml² and for 10ml decants €2.88/ml², both 10ML member price with VAT included, taken across the perfumes 10ML stocks and read live from the 10ML Price-per-ml Index.

One likely reason is that each vial carries the same filling and packing work whatever its size, so a small decant spreads that work over fewer ml.

Six of the perfumes in the same-perfume check further down are listed here with the price per ml of 10ML's 3ml decants and 10ml decants (10ML member price, VAT included):

• Aventus by Creed: €3.96/ml for the 3ml decant, €3.59/ml for the 10ml decant.
• Delina by Parfums de Marly: €4.95/ml for the 3ml decant, €4.01/ml for the 10ml decant.
• Santal 33 by Le Labo: €5.64/ml for the 3ml decant, €5.11/ml for the 10ml decant.
• Oud Wood by Tom Ford: €6.27/ml for the 3ml decant, €4.93/ml for the 10ml decant.
• XJ 1861 Naxos by Xerjoff: €3.81/ml for the 3ml decant, €2.96/ml for the 10ml decant.
• Sauvage Eau de Parfum by Dior: €2.97/ml for the 3ml decant, €2.69/ml for the 10ml decant.

10ML sells 3ml, 10ml and 30ml decants, all on the perfume samples and decants page.

How much more per ml a decant costs than the full bottle

At the shops that list both, a decant costs more per ml than the same shop's full bottle of the same perfume: a median 1.59¹ times for 10ml decants, 1.75¹ times for 5ml decants and 2.09¹ times for decants of 1 to 3ml.

The premium is the decant's price per ml divided by the price per ml of the same shop's largest full bottle of the same perfume. Every ratio in the data is above one, and the median ratio falls as the decant gets bigger.

In round terms, the median 10ml decant costs less than twice the bottle per ml, and the median decant of 1 to 3ml more than twice.

The middle half of the ratios for 10ml decants runs from 1.42¹ to 1.81¹ times, a narrower band than the 1.8¹ to 2.45¹ times for decants of 1 to 3ml. The ratio is unitless, so it is pooled across currencies.

It rests on fewer shops than the medians in the first table: 7¹ shops for the 1 to 3ml row, 8¹ for the 5ml row and 8¹ for the 10ml decant row, with 15¹, 14¹ and 14¹ listed prices. Read it as an example, not a market median. The last row is a retailer's own 10ml bottle, which is not a decant and has its own section below.

For what a Christmas perfume gift costs per ml, see perfume gift sets and decants compared per ml. Whether a decant or a full bottle suits you is a separate question, covered in decant versus full bottle.

What a 10ml decant costs per ml in each euro country

The median 10ml decant runs from €2.89/ml¹ in Ireland to €7.00/ml¹ in Finland, with €5.64/ml¹ in Germany and €4.00/ml¹ in Italy; most countries rest on fewer than four shops, so read each as an example.

Only Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands rest on four or more shops. Finland's median rests on 2¹ shops and 10 listed prices, Germany's on 3¹ shops and 10 prices, and Greece's on 2¹ shops and 8 prices. Each is an example, not a market median.

Several shops serve more than one country from one price list, so the rows overlap and cannot be added up. That is why France and Luxembourg share the same median.

In most euro countries the range inside the country is wider than the gap between country medians. Ireland and Germany both span a wide range from lowest to highest per ml.

A fair country comparison needs one common basket of perfumes read at every shop. This check did not do that. For the same bottle's price across European countries, see the 10ML research on perfume prices across Europe.

Why prices outside the euro are not compared with euros

Prices in zloty, leu, koruna, forint, krone and krona stay in their own currency, so the median 10ml decant is 19.53¹ zloty per ml in Poland and 23.5¹ lei per ml in Romania; 10ML converted no price.

A converted price would mix the shop's price with an exchange rate on the day, and the rate would move the ranking. Each currency therefore keeps its own row, and no row is ranked against a euro country.

Only Poland, with six shops, and Romania, with four, rest on four or more shops. The Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary and Sweden rest on three shops or fewer, so they are examples, not market medians.

This check cannot give a euro ranking of the non-euro countries. Doing so would need one common basket of perfumes read in every country, and the perfume sets here differ by shop.

A retailer's own 10ml bottle against a decant

A retailer's own 10ml bottle is the house's product, not a decant: it had a median €3.08/ml¹ and cost a median 1.95¹ times the same retailer's largest bottle per ml.

These are a retailer's prices for the house's own 10ml bottles, so they never enter a decant median. The row for them in the premium table counts 2¹ retailers, 22¹ listed prices and 8 perfumes, with a middle half of 1.44¹ to 1.98¹ times.

Among the euro rows, the retailer's 10ml bottle is lowest per ml in Ireland and highest in France and Germany. The country medians of the ratio against the retailer's largest bottle range from 1.32 to 2.24 times.

The median per ml of these 10ml bottles is below the median 10ml decant at rival shops, but the two sets of perfumes differ, so it is not a like-for-like comparison.

Where 10ML sits against these shops

Compared on the same perfumes on 22 October 2026, 10ML's 10ml decant (10ML member price, VAT included) was below the rival's price per ml on 59¹ of 92¹ like-for-like prices and above it on 33¹: inside the range of these shops, not at one end.

A pair is one rival 10ml decant price for one perfume set against 10ML's 10ml decant price for the same perfume, both per ml, with shipping on neither side.

At the same size of 3ml, against rival 3ml decants of the same perfume, 10ML's 3ml was below the rival's price per ml on 30¹ of 45¹ prices and above it on 15¹.

The 10ML Price-per-ml Index median for 10ml decants, €2.88/ml² (10ML member price with VAT included, spread over the perfumes 10ML stocks), is below the median 10ml decant at rival shops, €4.40/ml¹. The perfume sets differ, so that gap is not a like-for-like saving; the pairs below are.

The table lists only the perfumes that three or more shops sell as 10ml decants, so its rows do not add up to the 92¹ pairs. It shows how uneven the picture is: 10ML was lower on 4 of 5 prices for Amouage Guidance, 7 of 9 for Creed Aventus and 5 of 7 for Parfums de Marly Delina, and on 1 of 6 for Dior Sauvage Eau de Parfum, the perfume with the lowest rival median in the table.

The rival median differs by perfume as well. It is lowest for the Dior perfume and highest for the Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait, so a shop that is low on one perfume can be high on another.

For how niche perfumes compare with designer ones per ml, see niche perfume price per ml. The index behind 10ML's own medians is described at the 10ML Price-per-ml Index.

How 10ML collected these prices

10ML read 918¹ distinct listed prices from 47¹ shops in 19¹ markets on 22 October 2026, each on the shop's own page, in the shop's own currency with VAT included and shipping left out.

A median here is the median of the listed price per ml, with each distinct listing as one vote, over decants of the exact size band: 1 to 3ml, 5ml or 10ml. Only euro prices have a euro price per ml, which is why the other currencies stay apart.

The perfumes read differ by shop, mostly niche and prestige designer perfumes, so a median is the median of the listed prices and never the market price. A price list that a shop sells into several markets counts once.

The shops are named in the dataset below. The check is one day, 22 October 2026, so it shows no trend over time. It also cannot say what shipping adds to a small order, or what a perfume costs at a shop it was not read for.

The 10ML side of each pair is 10ML's member price with VAT included, as the live Price-per-ml Index showed it on 22 October 2026; the 10ML prices printed on this page are live. For the shops themselves, see the guide to perfume decant shops in Europe. For what a 10ml size holds, see how long a 10ml perfume lasts, at about 200 sprays, and for choosing before you commit to a bottle, see safe blind buy perfumes. The full set of figures sits in 10ML's perfume market and prices research.