8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 1, 2011

Perfumania Holdings, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Florida	0-19714	65-0977964
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

35 Sawgrass Drive, Suite 2

Bellport, NY 11713

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)

(631) 866-4100

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On September 1, 2011, Perfumania Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing the sales for the month ended August 27, 2011(fiscal August 2011) for one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Perfumania, which operates specialty retail fragrance stores. A copy of this press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits:

Exhibit No.	Exhibit Index
99.1	Press Release issued by the Company on September 1, 2011

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	Perfumania Holdings, Inc.
Date: September 7, 2011	By:	/s/ Donna L. Dellomo
		Donna L. Dellomo
		Chief Financial Officer

EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

Perfumania Holdings, Inc.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Company Contact:

Michael W. Katz

President and

Chief Executive Officer

Perfumania Holdings, Inc.

631-866-4156

PERFUMANIA HOLDINGS, INC. REPORTS PERFUMANIA RETAIL SALES FOR

AUGUST 2011

Bellport, NY September 1, 2011 - Perfumania Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PERF) announced today that Perfumania, one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries which operates specialty retail fragrance stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, reported total net sales of $19.1 million for the four week fiscal month of August 2011 which ended August 27, 2011 versus $18.4 million for the four week fiscal month of August 2010 which ended August 28, 2010. On a year-to-date basis, total net sales were $139.8 million in the current year compared with $126.8 million last year. For the month of August 2011, comparable store sales increased by 7.4%. Comparable store sales on a year-to-date basis increased by 13.4%. Comparable store sales measure sales from stores that have been open for one year or more. We exclude stores that are closed for renovation from comparable store sales from the month during which renovation commences until the first full month after reopening.

PERFUMANIA AUGUST AND YEAR-TO-DATE 2011 RETAIL SALES ($’s in $000’s):

	FY 2011					FY 2010					FY 2009
			(Decrease) Increase					(Decrease) Increase					(Decrease) Increase
Number of Stores, August		345		(6.0	%)		367		(0.5	%)		369
August Total Retail Sales	$	19,148		4.3	%	$	18,354		(9.8	%)	$	20,337
Year-to-Date August Total Retail Sales	$	139,823		10.3	%	$	126,781		1.9	%	$	124,458
August Comparable Store Sales				7.4	%				(8.7	%)				1.0	%
Year-to-Date August Comparable Store Sales				13.4	%				1.2	%				(8.8	%)

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This press release may include information presented which contains forward-looking information, including statements regarding the strategic direction of the Company. Some of these statements, including those that contain the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “plan,” “estimate,” “expect,” “should,” “intend,” and other similar expressions, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements. Among the factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievement to differ materially from those described or implied in the forward-looking statements are our ability to service our obligations, our ability to comply with the covenants in our senior credit facility, any failure of general economic conditions to improve, including any weaker than anticipated recovery in discretionary spending by consumers, competition and the ability to raise additional capital to finance our expansion. Additional information regarding factors that could cause results to differ can be found in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2011, in the section entitled “Risk Factors.”