Kens Apothecary Warehouse Sale

If you have champagne taste and budget, then you might be familiar with Kens Apothecary.

But if you're like me (champagne taste, ais kosong budget), you can't bring yourself to spend so much on the brands they carry. 

Anyhow, word of this year's warehouse sale made the rounds on social media last week.

So I made my way to their offices at Solaris Mont Kiara and got there around 10.45 a.m... ish. It was easier to park downstairs in the basement parking since it's about the same price (RM2 for first 2 hours) as the street parking outside (RM1 per hour). 

By the time I got there (this was still before 11 a.m.), I was behind a mother and her two grown daughters. My guess is that they already started letting people in before we got there, but that's their prerogative. I probably waited almost 20 minutes outside before I was inside the sale because they were doing one in, one out. There was quite a line behind me. And they gave out tiny bottles of water because it was stuffy even out in the corridor of the offices. 

It's only several brands: Goutal, diptyque, REN, by Terry and Caudalie. They've put a hard limit on Caudalie (one item per person), but everything else was fair game. 

I still haven't finished the diptyque fragrances from the last warehouse sale, so I spent most of my time perusing the Goutal offerings. There wasn't much room inside, let alone any elbow space for anyone to post pictures of the items and prices online. I was in there probably over an hour. 

It took at least another 10 minutes for me to pay my ONE item because a couple of people ahead of me bought baskets full of stuff and they were writing up receipts BY HAND. It was annoying AF cos it was getting stuffy inside as well and I didn't want to pay extra for parking (I had about 15 minutes to spare). The line was still going when I left. Bernie Chan got ushered in by one of the staff and didn't have to queue. Good thing I left when I did cos I certainly didn't want to wait until the second half at 2 p.m. 

TL; DR - I only bought a L'ile Au Thé (citrusy green tea) EDT (RP: RM480, paid RM144) because I thought Eau D'Hadrien smelt too lemony.