The pleasure of scent can be likened to what good and tasty food does to the body. After spraying your perfume, you experience as the fragrance evaporates and essential oils heat up to leave your skin fresh and excite your olfactory system. We have got tips to ensure your signature scent lasts longer. See below:
1. Stay away from pulse points
Contrary to popular opinions, the traditional scent-dabbing points – wrists, throat, behind your ears – are where blood passes closest to your skin, warm your fragrance up. However, heat drives off a perfume faster. The more heat, the quicker the perfume will disappear. To ensure your morning spray is still there after lunch, look to less hematic spots, like your forearms or the back of your neck, which release the scent more slowly. You can apply directly to clothes because they help fragrance lingers.
2. Moisturise
The drier your skin, the less it will hold onto a fragrance. But don’t be tempted to spray on straight out of the shower; the hot water elevates your skin temperature, which means your fragrance burns off faster. Instead, get chemical help. The compounds in creams and moisturisers are a lot less volatile than those used in perfumes, and may help to increase longevity.
3. Keep it cool
You need to store fragrance away from light, keep it cool, and avoid temperature changes. If it resides on your bathroom shelf then heat, moisture and light will gang up on its chemicals, breaking down the constituent ingredients. Which means it stops smelling like it should and won’t last as long. Your best bet is to slot your scents in a drawer in your bedroom instead. If you’ve invested in something serious, then it needs to be looked after accordingly. You can keep the most precious bottles in the fridge, just try not to confuse them with a high-end vodka.
4. Less is more
Different fragrances disperse at different rates. Light scents with lots of citrus and green notes have more volatile molecules, which disappear quickly. Look instead to heavier scents rich in woods and resins, which linger longer on your skin. Especially notes like labdanum, frankincense, cedar, and patchouli, or amber, which means a combination of resins and vanilla. It can be very masculine and woody, and provides a rich, long-lasting base note. Your scent’s concentration is even more important than its contents. You only need to spray a small amount and it can last more than 12 hours on your skin. Less is much, much more.