Rare and valuable perfume bottles including CK One and Gucci Envy worth up to £13,000
IF you have a bottle of old perfume lying forgotten among your toiletries, you could be sitting on a small fortune.
Nostalgia for fragrances from the past mean that discontinued scent bottles from the 90s could now be worth much more than you originally paid.
And even older rare perfume bottles are selling for thousands of pounds at auction.
It's the latest wave of 90s nostalgia after toys, clothes and other popular culture items from the decade have jumped in value.
Just one whiff of a scent you used when you were younger can take you back.
However, many of the most popular fragrances at the time are no longer available.
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Anyone wanting to be transported back through smell has little choice but to buy secondhand - and the demand is pushing up prices.
"Perfumes get discontinued because of changes in fashion and taste. This adds an air of exclusivity to fragrances no longer available - scarcity makes them more valuable to own," says perfumer and vintage scent collector Sarah McCartney.
"There is a new wave of interest from nostalgic fans wanting to buy the aromas they remember when growing up. It is creating a surge in demand for perfumes from the 1990s."
Chanel No5
Launched in 1921, you can still buy a bottle of Chanel No 5 today more than 100 years later.
The design of the bottle is thought to have been inspired by a whisky decanter but it was changed to a more chunky squarer shape in 1924.
The glass on the first bottles were too thin and would often break.
However, earlier versions of the bottle and fragrance can now fetch thousands.
And Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers sold an empty 1921 bottle of the original design for a staggering £13,000 earlier this year.
Gucci, Envy
Gucci Envy perfume for launched in 1997, however,the scent wasn't around for long.
Top notes of bergamot and peach, along with base notes of cedar, musk and sandalwood created a die-hard following.
Now fans have recently paid £150 for a bottle from eBay.
Even if used, you can expect to fetch a three-figure sum for the bottle.
CK One, Calvin Klein
Synonymous with the 90s, Calvin Klein's unisex fragrance CK One was launched in 1994 and is still available to buy today.
However, it has also had a range of special editions which are no longer available.
The One Summer edition was launched in 2013 and an unopened version of this sold for £125 on eBay.
Les Belles De Ricci, Nina Ricci
The brightly coloured and fun bottle of Les Belles de Ricci by Nina Ricci made it a stand out perfume from the 90s.
The fruity fragrance was launched in 1996 with top notes of mint and orange with base notes of raspberry and fig leaf.
If you have a bottle lurking in your drawer, you could easily expect to get more than £100 for it.
A brand new 100ml bottle of the spray sold for £170 at the start of February.
XS Pour Elle, Paco Rabanne
With top notes of peony and base notes of ylang-ylang and sandalwood, XS Pour Elle was launched in 1994 and instantly was one of the most popular fragrances of the time.
Now discontinued, fans desperate for a spritz have been turning to eBay.
A bottle recently sold for almost £90. There are some listed for well over £100 as sellers hope to cash in.
Even a bottle only 40% full went for £52.99 on eBay at the beginning of February.
Champagne, Yves Saint Laurent
Fragrances that were only around for a very short period of time can be among some of the most valuable because they are much rarer.
Yvresse by Yves Saint Laurent was initially named Champagne and created in 1993.
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It was in a bottle that imitated a cork. However, after a clash with wine producers it was pulled from the shelves and renamed.
Now if you have an original version of the fragrance, it can fetch more than £100 among second-hand sellers with one 100ml bottle going for £134 on eBay.
Are dupes worth it?
THE Sun asked an independent perfume expert to carry out blind smell tests of popular perfumes and their high street “dupes” to see if the budget versions lived up to the originals.
Noemie Maury is a senior fragrance evaluator who has worked with major fine fragrance and toiletries brands for over a decade.
"High street chains can create perfumes cheaply by buying them from big fragrance manufacturers which grow their own ingredients in-house," says Noemie.
"Because they use oils from flowers they grow themselves instead of importing ingredients, they save on costs and can create fragrances for high street brands at a discount price."
It means they can lack the depth and complexity of more expensive brands which use a wide variety of more expensive ingredients.