Plainly
A real bottle, bought at retail, poured by hand into a new glass atomizer the day your order comes in. It is not a copy, not a refill, and nothing sits pre-poured. An opened vial loses its top notes first, and those are the part you paid for.
Lattafa, Maison Alhambra, Afnan, Rasasi and the rest are Middle Eastern perfume houses. Many of their fragrances are built to resemble well-known designer scents, and some are their own thing entirely. They are inexpensive because the houses are not paying for Western marketing, not because the juice is thin.
House and designer names appear here only so the contents of a vial are clear and so you know what something is understood to resemble. Scent Strata has no affiliation with, sponsorship from, or endorsement by any house named on this site.
You are paying for two milliliters of the same liquid that is in the bottle, plus the atomizer and the pouring. Price tracks volume and nothing else, so a fragrance the internet is excited about costs the same as one nobody mentions.
Fragrance is a flammable liquid and cannot legally travel by air. That is federal law and it applies to everyone selling this, which is why nothing here ships overnight and nothing ships abroad.
A custom blend goes out under its formula number rather than a house name, because at that point it is no longer any house's work. The card ships with it and stays on file, so a second bottle matches the first.
The name is yours and it goes on the vial. The formula sits on the card so it can be made again exactly. Nothing is shared with anyone unless you send the link yourself.