You finally found that perfect scent that you have been looking for, for several months in a raw. The process of finding the perfect perfume to match your sensuality and good taste wasn’t easy for you since you have cut budgets to afford it and waited long until it has been shipped to you. And now, you finally wear it proudly but no one compliments you for it. You feel like catching people’s attention, but it doesn’t happen the way you expected. People’s looking at you suggest that something frustrates them rather than amazes them and you begin asking yourself what could have gone wrong.
Don’t worry too much. Things can be fixed up. It’s improbable that they don’t like your aromatic choice. Instead, you might have done certain mistakes in using it correctly and as a result, your perfume doesn’t decant the way it should. In consequence, people near you do not necessarily feel the delicate and gorgeous spillage, but only the “hard” notes that almost every perfume has.
Generally speaking, you can own the most attractive Paco Rabanne or Gucci perfume ever. But if you don’t apply it correctly, things can go pretty wrong. Wearing perfumes is a true work of art in which every little detail matters: the type of fragrance, where exactly you apply it, how you apply it, and many more. In addition, you probably know that every scent conveys a pyramid of olfactory notes. In case you don’t follow some basic steps in applying it, you might interfere with the decanting process. So, spend some 5 more minutes reading this piece of advice after having bought your guilty pleasure Chanel, Le Labo, or Giorgio Armani. These recommendations will “educate” you on the matter so that you stop once and for all doing things wrong.
Temper your desires
The first thing you should pay attention to is the way that you apply your fragrance. Do you spray it or do you rub it? Good for you if you only spray it, because that’s the correct way to go. But, I’m pretty sure that the majority of readers rub the perfume into the skin. I was practicing the same technique until I realized how wrong I was. In contrast to mistaken beliefs, rubbing the fragrance into the skin interferes with the chemical structure of the substance. You might think that it’s no big deal doing that and the scent will only become more pronounced. But you are mistaken.
Let’s take a closer look at the composition of the Maison Margiela “By the fireplace” perfume, for instance. As all perfumes have 3 main layers (top, middle, and basic notes), this scent unleashes solid accords of Cashmere wood, smoke, and vanilla as base notes.
The substance gradually transits to Cade wood and chestnut accords in the heart layer, ending with pink pepper and orange blossom notes at the end of the pyramid. That’s the layered structure in which the fragrance should naturally decant.
What happens in reality?
Now, what happens when you rub in the fragrance? While rubbing, the increased blood circulation from the area causes the surface to heat. The temperature elevation stimulates natural enzymes to have another type of reaction to perfume compounds. As a result, the perfume layers interchange with each other, causing the layers to mix up. The result is obvious: what people should smell like the top layer, they feel is as the sillage.
So, the point here is to temper your desire to “stick” your perfume to your skin. A good replica fragrance is potent enough with just spraying, without rubbing it into the skin.
Your skin shouldn’t get wet at the place of spraying
Did you think that by leaving a wet perfume spot on your skin you were going to smell better? Well, stop doing this. General guidelines of perfume culture suggest that the optimal distance between the skin and perfume should be between 7-12 cm. It’s not the case to exceed the distance. Otherwise, you risk wasting too much fragrance in the air. The best distance according to my experiments varies between 7-10 cm, depending on the type of perfume.
At this point, I should also suggest spraying the perfume directly on the skin, UNDER the clothes. The first advantage is that you avoid possible water or oil marks on the clothes. The other benefit is that the perfume does not evaporate so quickly. Being applied directly on the skin, the perfume “soaks” into the cloth, providing a double effect. If, in contrast, you spray it on the clothes only, it slowly begins evaporating, leaving less effect on the skin.
Exceeding the quantity
All of us are tempted to spray excessive amounts of perfume, to smell heady for as long as possible. The only effect we gain is to turn our delicate fragrance into an overpowering, pungent, and disturbing one. This is the most frequent mistake we make when applying our fragrances. We all want to convey a faint seductive and elusive aroma, but we obtain exactly the opposite.
Trust your fragrance. If you opted for a qualitative one, be sure that applying small amounts is enough to convey its delicate exquisiteness. In such a case, less is more.
The risk of over-exceeding with the perfume quantity is especially omnipotent for people who use to mixing several fragrances. In general terms, mixing lotions with perfume oils is a frequent practice among perfume lovers. They see perfuming as a whole ritual process. But, it is of crucial importance to balance things up. In such a context, the best practice is to apply the heavier scents, followed by the lighter. The amount of each scent should be significantly less when combined, than when used as a sole perfume.
Disregarding the type of perfume
Knowing only the name of your favorite fragrance is never enough. Plenty of customers apply both colognes and attars in the same way. If your fragrance belongs to attars perfumes, change the application technique. Attars, which means perfume concentrated oils, don’t need to be applied on the whole surface of your body (you probably don’t do that, but you got the irony). You should only limit yourself to dabbing a couple of perfume drops on pulsing points. Some of them include the area behind the ears, the base of your neck, the inferior side of your wrists, and the inner part of your elbows.
Applying them on other sides will lead to improper decanting and you don’t want people around you feeling only the top nones. You want them to discover the middle and the base accords as well. This will be possible only if applied on pulsing areas of your body. Otherwise, you are wasting the fragrance and disappointing others.
Improper storage
What if I told you that fragrances can be affected if stored improperly? That’s a less-known fact, unfortunately. People usually come to blame the manufacturer for the low quality, instead of paying attention to how they store the perfume. The storage temperature should always remain the same. Swinging between cold and hot temperatures affects the chemical structure of the substance. You might think that the glass bottle somehow should protect the fragrance. But it does not.
Perhaps, you might have experienced such cases when perfumes express potent notes of alcohol when being kept improperly for a long period of time. While it might be true that the quality of such a perfume is doubtful, improper storage can be the “hidden” cause in many instances. This is because of chemical reactions and processes that take place under interchanging temperature conditions. As a result, you think that your perfume is the best one could ever have. But, in fact, the silage conveys absolutely another message.
Many customers ask about keeping different perfumes together. Some of them suggest that if storing more perfumes close to each other, the scents might be altered. In fact, this is a myth. Whenever you opt for qualitative perfumes from reliable stores such a risk is absolutely improbable.
Concluding the ideas…
Every replica perfume I add to my collection is like a little victory for me. I simply adore experimenting with them every other day and I chose to wear one or another scent according to my mood. Therefore, I see perfumes like “toys” able to influence my positive energy throughout the day. When I feel exhausted, I opt for calm and warm scents. If I’m dynamic and full of energy, I opt for a more expressive scent to share my vibes with others. Of one thing I’m sure: once I stopped making the above-mentioned wrong steps, people around me began appreciating my aromatic choices. And that’s just great when the audience prizes and cherishes your aromatic tastes.
Consider them, and enjoy the full potential of your perfumes. Moreover, it is not only you who will savor your own aromatic coating, but the rest of the surrounding audience as well. By the way, if you are in the wedge of ideas in finding a trustworthy source of perfumes, welcome to the AAAReplica store. These perfumes are worth considering when looking for evocative, seductive, and exquisite aromas.