Perfumes help you add some exciting fragrance to your natural scent. And sometimes, they even help suppress some smells you don’t want during the day.
Sometimes, after applying your preferred fragrance, it just feels like it’s not working after a few hours. The scent just seems to have disappeared. Maybe that’s happening because you are applying it wrong. There is an art to the application of perfumes- and most importantly, there is a science to it too.
Here are a few tips on how to apply perfume.
Where to apply your perfume
Perfumes should be applied on the skin and at pulse points. Yes, you read that right. Apply it on your skin. Experts believe that your skin is the perfect canvas for a perfume to unravel itself. A perfume expert, Matthew Mileo says that the lipophilic nature of the skin makes it a perfect canvass for perfumes to adhere to.
Apply to pulse points, warm and moist areas of your body. Your veins are closer to skin at the pulse points, hence, their tendency to stay warmer. These are mostly joints and hollows like inside of your elbows, back of knees, behind earlobes, wrists, sides of the neck, base of the throat, e.t.c. In other places, the top notes may fly away too easily. But in the warm areas, the heat from the skin keeps the top notes longer.
When to apply your perfume
To make the fragrance last even better, apply the perfume after you must have finished moisturizing your skin. Body lotions usually contain oils that the perfume can adhere to.
Also, the light massage from applying a body lotion warms up your skin for the perfume. If your skin is already dry and you don’t want to moisturize, try applying Vaseline to the points you intend to apply perfume before you apply perfume.
Applying fragrance before lotion will reduce the strength of the fragrance due to the rubbing motions involved in applying body lotion.
How to apply perfume
When you apply the perfume, do not rub it into your skin. Just dab! Allow your body heat do the natural diffusing throughout the course of the day. Aside from constant excessive friction being bad for your skin, rubbing will make you lose the head notes too fast.
Layering perfume
Don’t layer two big scents together. If you love a big fragrance and you want to combine it with another fragrance, try doing that with a simple single note fragrance. Maybe something earthy or musky.
Clothes matter too
If it is a perfume oil, be careful of misting clothes (like silk) that could stain easily. You can do a perfume cloud for yourself if the fragrance is non-toxic. A perfume cloud is you simply walking through to and fro a spritz or spray in the room. This will complement your natural scent and ensure that the scent is not too concentrated in the pulse points.
Applying perfume on your hair
We love it when our hair smells nice. But do not apply any concentrated alcohol formula on your hair as it could dry out your hair. However, if the perfume formula is suitable for hair, consider spraying it on your hair brush instead of directly on your hair. This will help distribute the scent lightly and evenly. Also, you can consider getting a perfumed hairspray.
Now that you know how to use perfumes for long-lasting maximum effect, consider trying out some of these carefully selected picks.
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