Where dreams go to die. - Graphic Designer Per-Scent Employee Review

- the people/ staff. From the office to the warehouse to the cleaning team and security all great people genuinely. so lovely and so sooo under appreciated Hell will freeze over before I can think of any more pro’s unfortunately.

- incredibly low salaries and no salary reviews. - because there are 0 benefits the staff turnover is incredibly high and so instead of rehiring asap you WILL be stuck doing things that are above and beyond your job description. - only 10 days or so WFH allowed a year. But not on Mondays and Tuesday. No sick pay and no days off in October because we must dedicate our lives to the cult that is selling fragrances. And so because of this God forbid you are throwing up your entire bodily contents because Lord knows you don’t make enough to take an unpaid day off and it’s a Monday so can’t WFH and it’s October so you can’t take day off. So you have to either drag yourself in the cold to the office or go and meet the Lord at the pearly gates early. - when we want things like that changing and actual staff benefits we’ll be ignored and bought pizza instead! (Nothing says I love my staff like a pepperoni slice). - after a year or two of doing multiple tasks out of your job contract you’ll ask for a measly salary increase and you’ll not get it. - 9 hour workday which is already longer than average and to top it off only 45 mins lunch not 1 hour oh no like I said we must commit those 15 mins to selling fragrances! - have to clock in and out and the damm machine sometimes glitches and takes ages to scan your finger it’s like clocking into a prison. - A nicely fragranced prison because remember as the obnoxious fragrance wall says. SPRAY A LITTLE HAPPINESS!

Unfortunately I can't think of one...

They offer no benefits for working here, the novelty of being in a fancy building with a gym wears off VERY quickly. Please don't bring any connections with you as they will effectively ruin your relationships by not paying them on time or even refusing to pay them at all for pathetic reasons. This can be print suppliers, retailers, models, photographers etc. it's an awful way to do business. They micromanage everything including your working hours - they will clock watch every last minute but if you work any overtime, that goes unnoticed and unpraised. The very little working from home days and annual leave you do get, you can get approval from your line manager, but the wives will still ask your fellow colleagues where you are... its borderline obsessive and not constructive. We are adults and we should be trusted to manage our time accordingly. I don't believe top tier management want the brands to succeed, I feel like he's just bringing out these brands and products to tell his mates he's done this and he's done that... Being in the same building as The Fragrance Shop does not help either, Per-Scent is constantly made to feel less superior to this business and therefore the overall strategy is neglected. Watching money being poured into a fragrance wall to break a world record and thousands being spent on peacocking influencer events that I don't believe really drive sales instead of really investing in the brands Per-Scent have in their portfolio is soul destroying and before I left, morale was at an all time low. Don't expect any sort of pay rise or promotion without having to throw in your notice first.