Everyone knows someone who smells good every time you meet them and whose scent is always noticeable, but never overwhelming.
When it comes to perfume, most people feel like they are juggling two extremes: either they apply perfume so sparingly that it evaporates in an instant, or they use so much of it that it stuns. everyone around them. In reality, the correct application of perfume and its persistence does not depend so much on the quantity used, but rather on the right – often unexpected – parts of the body and the moment of the beauty routine.
Most people think perfume should be the last step in their beauty routine. Before leaving the house, they spray it on their skin, hair, and clothes, thinking it’s the best way to smell good and make the scent last longer. Mistake: Fragrance releases most intensely when applied directly after showering or bathing to dry, but still slightly damp and warm skin.
Dry skin literally absorbs the fragrance, preventing it from expressing its full potential. It is much better to apply the moisturizer to the skin before the perfume. The ideal is to use a body cream, so that the smell of the skin care product does not mix with that of the perfume. Then spray the perfume on key areas of your body. That is to say on the wrists, the folds of the arms, the neck and the lobes of the ears. The heat of the body is particularly important in these places, which brings out the essence more intensely.
Among the areas where you have to spray the perfume is also, and it is not a coincidence, the navel. Located in the center of the body, it heats up particularly intensely, and it is for this reason that perfumes develop ideally in this place. The fact that the belly is often covered by clothes is not a disadvantage, on the contrary it allows the molecules of perfume not to evaporate quickly.
There’s no doubt that hair is a great carrier of fragrance: if the strands are blown in the wind or tossed about, everyone around you will notice the fragrance. However, due to its high alcohol content, the perfume ends up drying out the hair in the long run. That’s why it’s a good idea to buy a specific perfume for the hair. It contains no alcohol, or contains much less, and protects the hair from moisture loss. Some hair perfumes also contain nourishing oils to add shine.
