Do’s and Dont’s of Wearing Perfume
June 14th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
The perfume fragrances you wear can cause people to be attracted to you or, unfortunately, to flee from you! You should carefully choose perfumes that enhance the space around you. Be careful not to offend others with fragrances that are too strong. Here are some quick perfume tips on choosing and wearing fragrances.
Choosing a Perfume Fragrance
Find a fragrance that complements your skin and natural aroma of your body. The scent should be subtle enough to not invade anyone else’s “personal space” but pleasant enough that others will want to stay around you. Perfume is meant to enhance your personality, attire, and overall being.
When you visit the fragrance department in a department store, sample perfumes by spraying a couple of fragrances on your skin in areas located far apart from one another. For example, spray one type on your hand and the other on your upper arm. Don’t try spraying on more than two fragrances in a single trip. Then, leave the store or at least the perfume section for a few minutes to smell the fragrances on your skin. This will allow you to smell the scents without them blending with others from the fragrance section.
Try each scent directly on your skin to be sure it’s the perfect match. The fragrance should blend well with your normal body aroma, as well as the scents of your clothing detergent, shampoos, and makeup.
If you think you’ve found the perfect perfume for you, wait a day before buying. Try on a sample of only that particular perfume from the department store and then leave it on for a day. Be sure it doesn’t lose its scent during the day, change scents, or cause any allergies or headaches. Wearing it for a day should reveal all of these.
Do’s of Wearing Perfume
If you have dry skin, wear extra perfume. The oils in your skin, or lack thereof, can enhance or weaken the scent. When it’s cold out, wear extra perfume. Cold weather tends to weaken the scent as well. When, buying new perfume, don’t base your decision on what works for someone else. Try it out on your own skin first. Everyone’s skin reacts differently to a scent.
The best time to apply perfume is right after a shower or bath. After bathing, your skin pores will be open and will soak up the perfume’s fragrance. Also when bathing, use non-deodorized soap where the perfume will be applied. Soaps and deodorants can affect how the perfume will smell on your skin; the mixture won’t always be pleasant!
When applying perfume, dab it in unusual places where it will stay warm and keep its scent longer. It can be applied on the inside of the elbow, on the wrist, neck, stomach, cleavage, and back of the knees.
Don’ts of Wearing Perfume
While there are many positives to wearing perfume, there are few things to avoid. One involves perfume and jewelry. Certain types of jewelry, such as costume or pearl jewelry, can become discolored due to perfume alcohols. Some jewelry can also be stripped of its outer coating. When wearing perfume with this type of jewelry, apply it away from the jewelry.
Don’t use only one perfume year round. Test out various perfumes during seasonal changes to see which ones work best in the hot or cool temperatures. Different fragrances are affected by temperatures when it comes to scent intensity.
Never apply perfume behind the ears. It can blend with skin secretions and create a bad smell. Also, don’t spray perfume onto light-colored clothes because it can turn the fabric yellow.
When buying perfumes online, try out the same brand and scent in a local store first to be sure it’s right for you. You can often find great perfumes and men’s colognes such as Adidas, Antonio Puig, Anucci, Byblos, Britney Spears, Bulgari, Chanel, Capucci, Cartier, and more at online shopping stores.
These stores carry a wide supply of fragrances, even at wholesale prices. You can also shop for other great items while you’re there including sporting goods products, computers, DVDs, pet supply items, office supply products, tools, car items, electronics, jewelry, and more.
Use these tips to find that perfect perfume for you and start drawing people to you with your lovely scent!
Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST popular [www.majon.com]internet marketing companies on the web.
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Francois Coty - The Legend and History
November 27th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Francois Coty was a man. Not just any man though, his first cousin was Napoleon. He was instrumental in changing the way perfume was sold in the early 1900s. Before he revolutionized the entire perfume industry perfume was sold in unmarked glass jars. No labels and packaging. In order to get the same perfume on a second trip you would have to remember what it smelled like and hope you could find it.
Francois Coty came to the realization that perfume was not just about a smell. It was about the the entire experience, the bottle the packaging but don’t forget the fragrance. He felt that people would pay more for and get more joy out of pretty boxes with engraved labels,silk linings and papers.
The story or legend if you will of how Francois Coty went from someone with an idea to someone with a product selling in department stores is nothing short of well legend at this point. I couldn’t make up a better story than what the history books say. The story goes like this. Francois Coty was standing in the Louvre in paris talking to the manager about getting his product on the shelves when one of the bottles of a new fragrance he was working on called “La Rose Jacqueminot” fell or was every so gently pushed onto the floor by Coty. If the bottle fell by accident it was one of the best accidents in the history of perfume. Now what makes takes this story from reality into the realm of legend is that once the bottle hit the floor many women came over and demanded to know where they could buy this wonderful fragrance.
Now if a man is going to go through all that trouble to get his bottles for sale in the first place I have reason to believe that the legacy he’s left with his company is strong enough to product a quality product even now some 100+ years in the future.
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Ether Perfume - Fact or Fiction?
October 16th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
I’ve had a few readers ask me if I’ve heard anything about some magical knock out perfume. I did some digging and here is what I’ve come up with.
It comes back to an email thats been going around, it seems like these things will never die. The overall message of the email is that women should be weary in parking lots because men are coming up to them and spraying them in the face with a special perfume made from ether. Once sprayed in the face the women black out and wake up a while later having just been robbed.
First off I would like to just get it out of the way and say that this is false. It just doesn’t work like that.
The problem is that for ether to knock you out, it takes more, much more than you would get from a sprits to the face. We’re talking about pouring it on a rag and holding it to your face. if that we’re to happen then yea, you would end up knocked out. The small amount that would be sprayed in your face would have absolutely zero effect on you. It would be no worse than being sprayed in the face with a normal perfume.
After some more research it looks like the story of the magical ether perfume goes back to 1999. A woman in Mobile, Alabama told police that she was leaving a store and a man approached her and offered to sell her a $45 bottle of perfume for $8. Right here is your clue that this is a bad idea. So what does she do? She lets the man mist her face with it. She then wakes up later and realizes shes’ been robbed. Police did a tox screen on her and found nothing out of the ordinary in her blood.
If I had to guess I would say she was mugged and maybe even sprayed in the face perfume but that in no way did this magical non existent ether based perfume cause her to pass out.
