I am off to London tomorrow and thought I would have a look and see how much booze etc can take with me duty free. The following is a list of things you can take in from the London Tourism website.

• 200 cigarettes, 100 cigarillos, 50 cigars, or 250g of tobacco
• 2 litres of still table wine
• 1 litre of spirits or strong liqueurs over 22% volume or 2 litres of fortified wine, sparkling wine or other liqueurs
• 60ml of perfume
• 250ml of toilet water
• £145 worth of all other goods including gifts and souvenirs

I wonder why there is a limit on toilet water? do they have problems with to many people taking in toilet water? Has anyone been caught with to much toilet water? Are they afraid that the foreign toilet water will cause some kind of disease that local toilet water doesn't make? What happens f you tell them it is for drinking purposes, can you take more?

anything taxable you're fooked stick to the limits

I'd be surprised if you can carry all that liquid past the Zurich airport security check...
It should be ok to buy it all airside.

It annoys me they still have these rules for coming in from EU countries, especially as several court cases ended with the judge ordering C+E to stop impounding goods as there is no limit on what you can bring back from the continent, yet they still try to do you for it.

Switzerland is not EU, hence limits.

However they have no right ot impound/tax anything if it's personal use.

You can see their faces go red when you remind them of the fact, backed up with a printout from the C+E website

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsP...yType=document

Look I am really sorry, but no-one has actually answered the question. You do know that they are not talking about toilet water as in WC water, don't you?
I believe toilet water in this context is actually a type of perfume. The fact that you put a big makes me think that you know this anyway - just thought I would clear it up in case anyone is confused by this thread.

Are you for real? The English actually call perfume and cologne "toilet water"? I sure as hell would never chuck something on my face if it was labelled as "toilet water"!

I am afraid so! We English are a strange race. Just to clarify - I think it's a particular type of perfume. Wikipedia has this table:

• Perfume extract: 20%-40% aromatic compounds
• Eau de parfum: 10-30% aromatic compounds
• Eau de toilette: (toilet water) 5-20% aromatic compounds
• Eau de cologne: 2-5% aromatic compounds

It's the direct translation of the French term "eau de toilette"

The scented things we put on ourselves to cover up our icky human scent fall into a couple of different categories based upon how much scent is actually in it.

Perfume, also called extract or extrait perfume, can include 15-40% perfume concentrates. This is the purest form of scented product and is the most expensive as a result.

Eau de parfum contains about 7-15% perfume concentrates. This is the most popular and common form of perfume. It provides a long-lasting fragrance and generally doesn't cost as much as extract perfume.

Eau de toilette has around 1-6% perfume concentrates. This makes for a light scent that doesn't linger as long as the more intense versions. It was originally intended to be a refreshing body splash to help people wake up in the morning.

Eau de cologne is sometimes used interchangeably with the term eau de toilette. However, the concoction began as the name of a light, fresh fragrance mixed with citrus oils and was made popular by Napoleon. Some perfumers today have a version of this called eau fraiche.

No, no, no. It was La French. Us Brits just use the literal translation.

Well I never. Over 10 years after moving to the city from the bush and I'm still being learned about this refinement stuff. I thought I had this stuff sussed when I worked out the Brut 33 covers up the smell of axle grease better than Old Spice and that Chicks dig that Chanel stuff, but it's heaps cheaper when bought from back streets in Thailand.

That reminds me of a funny story. I used to wear Old Spice Deodarant. I loved that stuff. I had to stop wearing it though cause my new boyfriend at the time told me I smelled like his dad and it creeped him out.

...Actually, they can impound stuff... the link you provided states the following:

"If we are satisfied that the goods are for a commercial purpose we may seize them and any vehicle used to transport them, and may not return them to you."

As far as I am aware, they are supposed to get a court order to impound the stuff...

ps: funnily enough I do know that CH is not in the EU, but it does not stop me having a grumble about C+E....

Years ago when I lived in NZ, there were heaps of Korean squid fishing boats doing the rounds. There was an urban legend at the time saying that the squid fishermen used to drink a bottle of Brut 33 before their shore leave, because they would then sweat the stuff out, and nothing else could get rid of the smell of squid...

Toilette in french here has the old meaning the process of "getting clean, groomed and dressed". Google "La Toilette" and see all the famous artists who thought this was a great theme to paint.

Toilet Water is definitely a modern take on Eau de Toilette, although that some imbecile thought a perfectly good expression needed to be made so ugly and misleading beggars belief..

Daniel

Well actually going back to my original post, at the time I did actually think it was "toilet water" and had never heard of that being the english version of perfume...hence all of the strange questions...
Feeling like a bit of a goose!!!!