Roses smell better than a cabbage. Review on Tips on Perfumes for Women

Smell is a very potent factor in our everyday lives. It can turn you on and it can turn you off. We utilize our sense of smell for many activities from enjoying the aroma of freshly brewed coffee to deciding whom not to sit next to on the bus. Thus, the importance of good fragrance can’t be neglected.

A women's perfume is the most intense form of fragrance and it lasts the longest on your skin. It can be glamorous, exciting, explosive, and of course romantic. It is as essential as good clothing or anything else you may buy to enhance your personality. The more essential oils in the fragrance the longer it last and the more expensive it is.

.How to select the right perfume.

You can choose from basically four categories of perfumes.

Fresh - Citurs, Green Leaves, Marine Notes Scents.

Floral - Jasmine, Rose, White Flower Scents

Oriental - Spice Scents, Vanilla, Patchouli

Woody - Warm Woods, Citrus, Moss

Don’t blindly select any perfume. A perfume that smells good in the bottle or on your best friend’s skin may not smell that great on you since everyone’s body chemistry is different. Choose what complements your natural body odour. You should select the perfume depending on the season, occasion and also your mood.

Season is a factor because of the temperature. In winter the cold will prevent the alcohol in the perfume from evaporating - while in summer high body heat will burn it out very quickly. Thus, you have to refresh your fragrance more often in summer than in the colder weathers.

Choose different perfume for different occasions. You can’t wear the same perfume in wedding as well as while going for a work out in the gym. At a wedding your fragrance should scream your presence(no I don’t mean pour the whole bottle of perfume on yourself) just pick the one that matches the occasion like a woody or an oriental scent. But while going to work out in the gym wear just deodorant and maybe a little light body cream - anything else will heat up on your skin as you work out and you may end up driving everyone out of the gym.

Also take your mood into consideration before applying the perfume. Our body produces different types of chemicals in good mood and bad mood. Thus what you apply to your skin may work differently. In good mood anything and everything may suit you but in bad mood the same fragrance may not work that well. So always try being in a good mood(although it’s not always possible) and don’t forget to smile:-).

.Applying the perfume.

Just owning the best perfume is not enough. You need to use it in a proper way if you wish to get the “desired results”. Apply perfume right after you shower. Your pores will be open and soak up the scent. Always start from down and not from the top. Begin with the soles of your feet and work your way upward to the ankles and the calves, which is very effective when you cross your legs. Continue to the inner thigh area, the warmest place on the body. Then continue to the waistline, center bust, the wrist and behind the rim of the ear.

The key is to apply perfume to those parts of the body, where the fragrance lasts the maximum like - the inside of your elbow, back of your knees, wrist, neck and cleavage.

Spraying a little into the air is also good if you walk straight into the perfume. This helps to spread it all over your body proportionately.

.Two things you must not do.

Many of my friends make these two mistakes, which must never be made. Here are they:

(1). Do not overload yourself with different scents. More is not always the better. If you are using the perfume then don’t use the scented deodorant and hair products like mango conditioner.

(2). If you are in the habit of not using the perfume regularly because you don’t want to use them too quickly then shun it. Do not “save for good” your perfumes, body washes and lotions. The scent can be lost or ruined so use them before they become ineffective.

.Wear perfume, do not let it wear you.

Last but not the least, do not let your perfume overpower you. A perfume can be used as a strong intellectual statement, so use it wisely. It must say, what you want to convey and shouldn’t make a wrong impression. Perfume is just one of the means to add spark to your personality and not the other way round.