Can I bring Perfume and Fragrances to Canada?
Perfume and Fragrances→Canada
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⚠️ Declaration Required
⚠️ Declaration Required
📋 Carrying Limits
- Quantity Limit:Within the personal exemption: CAN$200 after 24 hours away, CAN$800 after 48 hours or more
✅ Declaration Requirements
✅Required
📌 Quick Summary
Status:⚠️ ⚠️ Declaration Required
Limit:Within the personal exemption: CAN$200 after 24 hours away, CAN$800 after 48 hours or more
Declaration:✅ Required
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Last Updated:September 6, 2026
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📝 Important Notes
- •✅ ALLOWED (declare everything): Perfume is an ordinary good for Canadian customs, counted inside your personal exemption.
- •📋 Quick Summary:
- •After 24 hours away: you can claim goods worth up to CAN$200; tobacco and alcohol are excluded from this exemption
- •After 48 hours or more: you can claim goods worth up to CAN$800, and this exemption permits alcoholic beverages and tobacco products within the prescribed limits
- •Declaration: you must declare all goods you acquired while outside Canada, including purchases, gifts, prizes and awards that you have with you or are being shipped to you
- •No separate perfume rule: there is no millilitre cap; what matters is the value of what you bring
- •💡 Tips:
- •The 24-hour and 48-hour exemptions require the goods to be reported at the time of entry to Canada
- •The CAN$200 exemption excludes tobacco and alcohol; the CAN$800 one permits them within the prescribed limits
- •Perfume is a liquid, so the usual cabin-baggage liquids rule applies on the flight
❓ More Questions
How much perfume can I bring into Canada duty-free?
There is no millilitre limit. Perfume counts inside your personal exemption: CAN$200 of goods after 24 hours away, or CAN$800 after 48 hours or more. All goods acquired outside Canada must be declared.
Do I have to declare perfume bought at duty-free before flying to Canada?
Yes. You must declare all goods you acquired while outside Canada, including purchases, gifts, prizes and awards that you have with you or are being shipped to you.
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