What is the ruling on purchasing perfumes that contain a high percentage of ethanol?
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The impurity of alcoholic perfumes is a matter of scholarly disagreement, and the issued is that they are impure, based on the majority opinion that everything intoxicating is impure. Alternatives to these perfumes are available, such as alcohol-free perfumes and oil-based perfumes.
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