New scent in old bottle

As a commerce graduate, my acquaintance with commercial law started with a doctrine called Doctrine of caveat emptor-----let the buyer beware. This was prevailing in the 19th century much before the consumer friendly enactments were being made.
In chennai, there is a place, where consumers are ready to be taken for a tide, called burma bazaar. In the 70's and 80's the craze for electronic goods like colour tvs and two-in-ones was immense. That time we indians had limited exposure to consumerable goods because of license raj. Apart from electonic goods, chennaites (then madrasis) had a penchant for " scent"(perfumes) . Remember, chennai's climate is hot and humid. The moment you wear a " scent" (read perfume) it will last long and long really long as said in a car battery ad.
Sensing  this fad, shopkeepers, henceforth, called as manufacturers started producing IMFP (what confused gwith abbrevation?) Indian-Made-Foreign-perfume. In the back alleys of North chennai,ramshackled sheds were converted into  manufacturing units to produce IMFP's. Once produced, they were stuffed inside the empty bottles of the foreign perfrumes and sold it to  consumers as " foreign scent". In those days,the people were ready to buy these goods, as their " foreign exposure" was almost nill.
Oblivious, or rather pretending, the customers in chennai buy this scent and flaunt it before.the near and dear ones as if it had been an imported one or the one which was presented by "foreign chithhappa". And there is a group ready to believe this kinds of stuff.