How to make a fragrance last
Making a fragrance last longer has to do with how you apply it to your skin. If you want your favorite fragrance to linger, choose a perfume rich in the more sensual, attention demanding notes such as chypres with oakmoss, bergamot or oriental smells like ambers with vanilla.
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Examples of these are:
- Sensual
Oriental
Examples of perfumes: Mitsouko, Femme, Miss Dior
Examples of perfumes: Shalimar, Samsara, Spellbound, Angel, Coco
Common suggestions can help you giving your scents more staying power.
Follow these tips for long lasting results:
Use fragrance before dressing
Some perfumes creates stains on clothing - and accessories too. Especially synthetic clothing and pearls are vulnerable. Apply your fragrance in two or three layers. Start by using soap or shower gel, then lotion or oil and finally powder and cologne.
Apply scent more often if you have fair, dry skin
Because of the alcohol in all perfumes they will evaporates from the skin. If you have an oily skin your scents will lasts longer - because more oil glands will make the perfume oils join with your skin for a much slower evaporation and a greater durability.
Vary your fragrance wardrobe from time to time.
Don't be afraid to experiment with new fragrances. Otherwise you could end up developing fatigue in your olfactory system. This means your sense of odors becomes immune to the perfume you wear most often.
Applying the fragrance at the right spot
Where you choose to apply the fragrance is just as critical as what scent you choose to wear. These tips will help you to use your fragrance the right way:
The overall rule is to apply the fragrance where the skin is warm. Then the scent is more inclined to diffuse out into the air.
These points are wrists, throat, behind your ear lobes - in the crooks of your arms and between your breasts. Coco Chanel has once said that you should put perfume where you’d like to be kissed.