It's happened to us all. You see an attractive women, neatly dressed, and think she looks fantastic. Then you follow her into an elevator or other enclosed space and you nearly choke from the overwhelming fumes of her perfume.
Perfume and cologne can enhance the overall appearance and feel of a person. The intoxicating scent that is complimentary to a person simply increases their overall attractiveness, but when perfume is applied wrong, the effects can actually decrease your overall attractiveness.
Let's look at a few hints and tips for applying perfume or cologne so that it increases attractiveness while not overpowering the senses.
First, when selecting a fragrance at a store, you should always try a sample of the fragrance on your skin first. Perfume and cologne are developed in such a way as to combine with your natural scent and your body chemistry to create a fragrance that is unique to you. They was a perfume smells straight from the bottle will be very different than how it smells on your skin. It's always best to try a sample on your wrist and wait ten minutes after applying it to decide if you like the fragrance.
Secondly, your sense of smell is much stronger later in the day and during warmer weather, so when selecting fragrances at the store, try to shop in the afternoon or early evening versus in the morning.
Colder weather reduces scents, so stronger perfumes and colognes can be selected when the weather is cooler and lighter scents can be used when the weather becomes warmer. Wearing the same fragrance all year may not be the best choice, because weather changes often change how a scent smells and how strong it is. It's best to have two or three favorite scents.
Now that you have selected your fragrance, learning how to apply it is as important as the fragrance itself.
If you have dry skin, perfumes are oil based, and are a better choice, whereas someone with oilier skin can use cologne for the same strength of fragrance. The oil of the skin or the oil in the perfume will help the fragrance spread on the skin and increase the duration of the scent.
Ironically, deodorant soaps and lotions can actually cause your fragrance to not work or to be greatly weakened. If you are going to wear perfume of cologne, do not use a deodorant soap on your skin prior to applying the perfume. However, it is a good idea to apply perfume or cologne shortly after a shower or bath, because the water and heat from bathing opens pours, thus allowing the perfume to absorb into the skin and release the fragrance better.
If you only want a light fragrance that is not blended with your own scent, one option is to spray the perfume of cologne into the air and walk through the mist of the scent. This will provide a very light scent that mostly is on your clothing or hair, and thus the scent will not be as unique to your own body chemistry. The scent may not last as long when applied this way.
As for where to apply perfume, it has long been recommended to apply perfume to what are known as the pulse points of the body. When doing this, the perfume or cologne is said to spread my quickly and these areas of the body are slightly warmer and will provide a stronger fragrance.
Some of these areas include: behind the ear, at the temple of the forehead, center of the neck, each wrist, behind the knee. Either a light spray or a small dab of fragrance on each of these locations will help your fragrance last all day.
Remember, other people can smell your fragrance much stronger than you can, especially after you have been wearing it for some time, because you will have become acclimated to the fragrance. Most of the time, there is no need to reapply a fragrance during the course of an average day unless you have showered or sweated profusely. However, adding more fragrance when going out for the evening should be acceptable.
Many people are sensitive to fragrance, and the point is not to cause an allergy attack in someone or to overpower them with your scent. The scent should be subtle, a part of who you are, not the first thing someone notices about you, and then can't forget because your scent lingers in the room stronger and more powerfully than you do!
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