Your want your big day to be perfect. So, you carefully pick out your clothes, hairstyle, shoes and other stuff for that day. It only makes sense to choose a special perfume for your wedding day too. You may be incorporating a perfume into your wedding plans either as a daily personal care essential or as a way to make the day feel special.
On your wedding day, your partner and guests close enough will notice your scent. You want your scent to be something that will enhance your beautiful aura for the day.
The fragrance you use on that day will always be tied to memories of the wedding for both you and your partner. This is because your brain’s limbic system that is closely associated with memories and feelings can call up memories and emotions merely by being triggered by certain smells.
Choosing the right perfume for your wedding comes with a lot of consideration and planning. Do you want to wear the scent that you always wear, so that you can be comfortable and avoid rude shocks? Or do you prefer a new fragrance to surprise and tantalize your partner? Would you rather go for a perfume that holds a special memory for you and your partner? Like what you wore on your first date or when he proposed. You could even think about a perfume you have used on a few occasions and your partner found that perfume to be irresistible all those times you used it.
You don’t want to shock your partner negatively with your perfume that day. So, you should opt for a perfume that still smells like you. It could be different from what you use every other day but it should not be a radical departure from your usual range. It is preferable that it stays in the same family of scents you would usually wear.
It is important to consider the season you are going to get married in. Heavy scents may feel stuffy in the hot seasons. So, you should consider light and fresh scents for spring and summer while you can favor heavier scents for winter or autumn.
If you intend to purchase a new perfume for your wedding, test the fragrances before purchase. If it is a walk-in store where testing is allowed, sprits your testers and wait for thirty minutes to one hour to see if you like all the notes of the perfume. Do not spritz too many perfumes on one tester at the same time. This could make you unable to differentiate the fragrance you prefer.
Test the perfume on your skin before the wedding day. A perfume could smell differently in a bottle than it would smell after reacting with your skin. You want to make sure it smells nice on you. Skin testing prior to the wedding day will also help reveal if you have any sensitivity or allergy to any ingredient in the perfume. Thus, you would have an insurance against unpleasant surprises on your big day.
Wear the perfume around your partner before the wedding day. Note their reaction to the perfume- if they are merely cool with it or they find it fascinating or it upsets them. You want to make sure you pick something your partner will appreciate.
Related: Guidelines For Choosing Bridal Perfume
It is not advisable to pick a scent that could be easily discontinued by the manufacturer because it may mean the end of you applying the scent for evoking memories in future.
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