Olympic orchids perfume

Our traditional winter sale is on through the entire month of December. For any order of $15.00 or more, enter the code WINTER2025 at checkout and receive a discount of 20%. The code cannot be applied retroactively, and will not work after December 31. Please feel free to share the code with your family, friends, and community.

Due to the large volume of sale orders combined with early holiday orders placed during November, we have run out of 100 ml bottles, so those orders will be delayed by an indefinite length of time. The blank bottles have been at the printer’s for quite a while, but everything is now moving into the usual December down time and no one (except us) seems to be working. The update today is that the 100 ml bottles are supposed to be ready by next week, but the printer’s place will be closed so that we cannot pick them up until December 30. This means that orders with 100 ml sizes will not ship until January, 2026.

Given the rush of orders and holiday shipping transit times of 1-2 weeks, it is now very unlikely that your order will arrive by Christmas. Our team is working intensively to fill orders and get them en route to you, but shipping transit times are beyond our control .

The cost for shipping a small package is more than the cost of a single sample, so we cannot ship single samples for free. The minimum purchase amount is $6.00 to cover the cost of postage.

We have been receiving an increasing number of “urgent” orders from customers who ask that their order be filled and arrive within just a few days after the date the order was placed. This is unrealistic given the volume of orders that our current staff deals with. Here are a few pointers for ordering if you have a tight time frame:

1. Order early. Allow AT LEAST one week for processing and another week for USPS to deliver your package, 2 weeks during the winter holiday season. Two weeks is the minimum lead time you should allow, and even more is preferable.
2. Inform us of your need for delivery within a specific time window by email (info@olympicorchids.com) at the time you place the order, not two days before you want delivery. If we know you have a valid reason for requesting delivery by a specific date, we will do everything we can to get your package there in a timely way.
3. From now on, all packages will ship by USPS ground. I will add an option for expedited processing, which seems to be what most customers have understood by “priority mail”. If you choose this option, we will make an effort to prioritize processing of your order, but it will ship by USPS ground which is now just as fast as “priority mail”. I hope this will eliminate misunderstandings.

I’m really sorry to have to write this, but international shipping seems to be in chaos right now. Several shipments have had the address changed by the postal service while en route, some appear not to have been scanned properly for tracking, and I just learned yesterday that a package addressed to Canada ended up in Puerto Rico! That address wasn’t changed – Canada is clearly still on the tracking info. The problem is not just with the USPS, which is typically reliable. Some things that have been shipped to me via UPS never were delivered.

I blame it on excessive automation and AI systems with no human oversight. Maybe some of these glitches can be corrected, but until then, there will be no international shipping to individual customers. I know this is frustrating for everyone, but that’s the way the world is this year.