So I have a rather strange question - what does a new item from Goyard smell to you?
For background, I bought something from San Francisco store not too long ago by contacting an SA, who will remain unnamed for now, but I just have this wanton suspicion that I may have fallen victim to a good-old-fashioned switcheroo and got a fake. Now it does sound like paranoia and the item does look authentic at a first glance, but something did felt strange to me.
So what tipped me off?
1) The insides smell like...fish oil/something rancid? The previous items that I have purchased in person in SF smell of the store instead, which is a strange but different smell.
2) I can smell chemicals on the coating, which is again a different smell. I know the traditional coating uses Arabic gum, but they may have changed the formula, and I do not really know what Arabic gum really smell like, now I think of it, so I really would not know.
An argument can be made here, since the item was just made months ago according to the tag and the paint might still be fresh, relatively speaking of course. Yet the trail of clues does not end here, unfortunately.
3) What really annoys/alarms me is that the stitching is not up to the usual standards when put in comparison with my other items.
a) the stitching is less dense, i.e. each segment is larger. I have checked out other people's post of the same item, and it would appear that the stitching is indeed like that for this particular item, but the pictures floating around online could be fakes for all I know.
b) there is a single segment that kind of missed, i.e. it slanted and failed to form a straight line with the others, which made me want to scream fake but I know Goyard has had its problems with quality control before, so there is a possibility that the item is "authentic". After all, I did buy the item from not a third-party but Goyard, though not in person.
Thus I am simply curious if anyone could offer some insight on the subject, and just how much would you trust an SA to mail you an item?
For background, I bought something from San Francisco store not too long ago by contacting an SA, who will remain unnamed for now, but I just have this wanton suspicion that I may have fallen victim to a good-old-fashioned switcheroo and got a fake. Now it does sound like paranoia and the item does look authentic at a first glance, but something did felt strange to me.
So what tipped me off?
1) The insides smell like...fish oil/something rancid? The previous items that I have purchased in person in SF smell of the store instead, which is a strange but different smell.
2) I can smell chemicals on the coating, which is again a different smell. I know the traditional coating uses Arabic gum, but they may have changed the formula, and I do not really know what Arabic gum really smell like, now I think of it, so I really would not know.
An argument can be made here, since the item was just made months ago according to the tag and the paint might still be fresh, relatively speaking of course. Yet the trail of clues does not end here, unfortunately.
3) What really annoys/alarms me is that the stitching is not up to the usual standards when put in comparison with my other items.
a) the stitching is less dense, i.e. each segment is larger. I have checked out other people's post of the same item, and it would appear that the stitching is indeed like that for this particular item, but the pictures floating around online could be fakes for all I know.
b) there is a single segment that kind of missed, i.e. it slanted and failed to form a straight line with the others, which made me want to scream fake but I know Goyard has had its problems with quality control before, so there is a possibility that the item is "authentic". After all, I did buy the item from not a third-party but Goyard, though not in person.
Thus I am simply curious if anyone could offer some insight on the subject, and just how much would you trust an SA to mail you an item?
