Although we say that perfume is best applied on your skin to make it last longer, it is also a good idea to apply perfume on your clothes.
Barring the fear of fragrance staining your clothes, there is no other danger to applying perfume on your clothes.
In this article, we discuss why you should apply perfumes on your clothes and how to apply perfume on your clothes.
Note that perfumes with high oil content may show and stain your clothes. So, you want to be wary of the kind of perfume you apply on your clothes, especially light fabrics like silk which stains easily. For starters, it should never be an oil perfume. Oil will surely stain your fabrics and it will show if the fabric is light enough to show the contrast where the perfume was applied.
Many perfumes also have dyes or colorants which can stain your clothes. To avoid such accidents, first, spray the perfume on an old lightly colored light fabric and see how it turns out. Even when you want to apply such perfumes on clothes, avoid applying them in obvious places. Try collars, skirt hems, scarves, and underarms of clothes.
You can also try walking into a fragrance cloud. The cloud is you spraying the perfume in the air and walking right into that space you sprayed. The light and even distribution will prevent staining.
Clothes rarely hold on to the entire perfume, rather, they hold onto certain individual components of the perfume. So, you may notice that a lot of perfumes have a powdery smell on clothes. For this same reason, synthetic fabrics may distort the scent of your perfume.
Why you should apply fragrance on your clothes.
- Depending on the type of fabric, some clothing will retain perfumes longer than your skin. And some fabrics could even retain the scent even after a few washes. As you go about your day, the clothes will continue to gently release the perfume, thereby giving you a pleasant scent and boosting your confidence throughout the day.
- The heat from your skin is what helps perfumes to diffuse slowly throughout the day. So, if you get hot easily, either due to your unique body chemistry or the weather, your perfume will evaporate faster. Adding perfumes to your clothes or hair will give you a longer wear time and help you retain some scent throughout the day.
- If you like to get heads turning with your scent, you should apply perfume to your clothes. Perfume will last longer on your skin but it won’t have a wider reach than it will have on your clothes. However, be considerate of other people’s fragrance sensitivities and allergies while applying perfume to your clothes. Generally, avoid being intrusive with your perfume and avoid anything overpowering.
How to apply perfume on your clothes.
- Do not spritz, just spray. Spritzing gives the perfume a wider reach and it increases the probability of staining the fabrics. Spritzing will help the perfume hit only targeted points and the targeted points are usually places where stains would not show.
- Never spray too close to the clothes. Hold the perfume bottle 10 to 15 cm away from the cloth before spraying. Do not rub it in. just allow it to evaporate naturally.
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If you try all these and it still seems like the perfume stained the fabric, remove the stain with a wet wipe immediately. Waiting before rubbing off the stain could allow the stain to settle, thereby making it harder to remove.
