Remember Tonye's tips on keeping your perfume smelling fresh for longer? Well, we have more tips on smelling nice and making it last.
Don't know if anyone else has this issue, you get out of the shower after using tons of soap/shower gel and the smell doesn't linger on your body. You put on your clothes, and spray all that good stuff and an hour later, you can't smell it!
Here are some tips gotten from Make Homemade Fragrances. My favorite tips are:
1. Layering the fragrance will make the scent last longer. Layering begins during the shower. Use soap, shower gel, shampoo or conditioner of your desired scent. After toweling yourself dry, slather lotion or fragrant moisturizer to establish the scent on your whole body. Some scents also come in talc form, so dust all over your body before getting dressed.
Never thought about this but I'm definitely going to try it out. My favorite 'scent line' is the Body Shop's Spiced Vanilla Scent. I absolutely love it!
Their Coconut shower gel comes close:
2. Pulse points play a major role upon where we should apply our perfume. These are the areas that produce heat to which in turn releases the scent of your perfume. The pulse points are located at the temples, the base of the throat, between the breasts, the wrists, the bend of the elbow. Pulse points that you have to pay more attention are at the back of the knees and the ankles. Since scent travels upward, these scent locations are very important. And most people skip these pulse points when applying perfume. Don’t apply behind your ears – instead, go for the jaw line, close to the ear. There are certain glands behind the ears that will interact with the smell of your perfume.
3. One reason why scents evaporate quickly is because of dry skin. Since perfume contains alcohol it also evaporates quickly. Another way to make perfume scents last longer is to apply lotion before applying your perfume. A lotion having the same scent is an excellent way to make your perfume last longer. But if you don't have a matching lotion, apply an unscented lotion. If you decide to use a lotion with a different scent, make sure that it doesn't clash with your perfume. If you have oily skin, a light dusting of fragrance bath powder will help to reinforce the fragrance without adding oils you don't need.
4. When you spray perfume on your wrist, never rub it together because it would "compress" the scent and won't allow the scent to develop naturally with your body chemistry.
5. To make the scent long lasting, you have to spray right after you are out of the shower, because your pores are still open.
Go to the link to read all the tips.
Tuesday Tips is a weekly post by Pearlle Magazine's contributors, sharing good ideas and practices we've learnt from various sources. Who doesn't love a good tip?
Don't know if anyone else has this issue, you get out of the shower after using tons of soap/shower gel and the smell doesn't linger on your body. You put on your clothes, and spray all that good stuff and an hour later, you can't smell it!
Here are some tips gotten from Make Homemade Fragrances. My favorite tips are:
1. Layering the fragrance will make the scent last longer. Layering begins during the shower. Use soap, shower gel, shampoo or conditioner of your desired scent. After toweling yourself dry, slather lotion or fragrant moisturizer to establish the scent on your whole body. Some scents also come in talc form, so dust all over your body before getting dressed.
Never thought about this but I'm definitely going to try it out. My favorite 'scent line' is the Body Shop's Spiced Vanilla Scent. I absolutely love it!
Their Coconut shower gel comes close:
2. Pulse points play a major role upon where we should apply our perfume. These are the areas that produce heat to which in turn releases the scent of your perfume. The pulse points are located at the temples, the base of the throat, between the breasts, the wrists, the bend of the elbow. Pulse points that you have to pay more attention are at the back of the knees and the ankles. Since scent travels upward, these scent locations are very important. And most people skip these pulse points when applying perfume. Don’t apply behind your ears – instead, go for the jaw line, close to the ear. There are certain glands behind the ears that will interact with the smell of your perfume.
3. One reason why scents evaporate quickly is because of dry skin. Since perfume contains alcohol it also evaporates quickly. Another way to make perfume scents last longer is to apply lotion before applying your perfume. A lotion having the same scent is an excellent way to make your perfume last longer. But if you don't have a matching lotion, apply an unscented lotion. If you decide to use a lotion with a different scent, make sure that it doesn't clash with your perfume. If you have oily skin, a light dusting of fragrance bath powder will help to reinforce the fragrance without adding oils you don't need.
4. When you spray perfume on your wrist, never rub it together because it would "compress" the scent and won't allow the scent to develop naturally with your body chemistry.
5. To make the scent long lasting, you have to spray right after you are out of the shower, because your pores are still open.
Go to the link to read all the tips.
Tuesday Tips is a weekly post by Pearlle Magazine's contributors, sharing good ideas and practices we've learnt from various sources. Who doesn't love a good tip?
