it's a bit troubling, this wide-used item (Perfume of Courage), mid-highend degree perfume, is made from sea hunting materials (blue-whale oil) which needs a plat to hunt & gather.

and that's why it's price sky-rocket high and takes long time to pre-order, because it's users (hardcore grinders, mid-pvpers), even many alchemists, they normally aren't intersted in whale-hunting at all.

to think the devs prolly wanna make lifeskills great again (i doubt it and tbh it is already ded since everyone is afk fishing right now), it's not resolving by limit it's materials to a naval plat hunting activity. 

it's never a solution to put to them into currency-exchange system, may we think of other means to resolve the shortage of this item? :)

Last time I was online i could exchange solare tokens for perfume of courage. Unless they removed that at some point.

You can still exchange that, yes.

make perfume of envy instead?

There's a Perfume of Swiftness shortage as well. It'd be cool if the did an Edania life potion to match the other two that you can make with coral crabs. +300 LT, Life Exp +30%, Mastery +25, Movement/Gathering/Fishing Speed +5.

Perfume of Swiftness max price is half that of Perfume of Courage, so nobody who has blue whale oil will make that over Courage if they want to profit.  They should both have the same max price.

Agreed