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by Karen Peery Karen Peery has 20 years experience in the newspaper and retail industries. For the past 8 1/2 years she has been an AVON Independent Sales Representative, certified beauty advisor, and top recruiter in her district since 1999. She is a mother and grandmother and enjoys helping people discover their beauty and second income needs. Karen currently resides in Iowa. |
If you are looking for a new fragrance it isn’t a good idea to choose one over a five-minute lunch hour. You probably wouldn’t be lucky enough to find your magic scent in five minutes. When choosing a fragrance it is an individual and personal choice. If you make time to shop for that special fragrance it can make you beautiful even in the dark. Wearing your right perfume will give you that magic way of completing your personality and adding the final dainty touch to your grooming. Just one whiff of that special perfume can instantly trigger many emotions or a flood of memories. Everyone has different body chemistries. This means what might smell really good on you could smell awful on another person or vice versa. There are thousands of new perfume scents launched each year. To find your scent you can try the different samples at the department stores or samples from other companies that carrying perfumes. Then apply the perfume to your skin so you will know how the perfume will react with your body chemistry. Just because you fall in love with a bottle of perfume it might turn out to be a lu-lu on your skin. It is a good idea to purchase small perfume bottles at first. The best time to shop for a fragrance is in the morning when your nose is fresh. You don’t want to rush your scent shopping. It takes times just as you were looking for a book, artwork, a new dress or music. The following are the most common women’s fragrance families: sheer florals, fruity florals, woody florals, opulent florals, florientals, orientals, musks, and chypres. Men’s most common fragrance families are: orientals, woodys, fresh fougeres, and chypres. Keep in mind that some department stores, most consultants, only recommend scents created by the company they work for. You should give the fragrance at least one hour or more to develop. A fragrance has three notes. The top note is to immediately attract your attention. It is the first impression of the fragrance and is what you smell immediately after the first contact with your skin. The smell will then gradually develop and get richer with the middle notes. This is the “heart” or “body” of a fragrance. It gives the fragrance character and it is the link between the top and bottom notes. The middle note unfurls in 10 to 15 minutes. The base note, gives the fragrance its “aura” and may not develop for one to two hours. It is formed with heavier ingredients, such as sandalwoods and musks. You can collect a wardrobe of scents to fit your mood or the season. Some wear a lighter scent for summer as heat intensifies a fragrance. You should wear a single scent and carry it through from your bath oil to the fragrance. The way a person wears a fragrance will also influence the overall effect. A fragrance should be applied to all or any of your pulse points: neck, wrists, behind the knees, and ankles. Then if you layer the other products, such as shower gel, body lotion and body powder, you fragrance will last even longer throughout the day. Here are a few fragrance facts: If you wear the same fragrance constantly it can desensitize you to that fragrance. This is called nose fatigue. If you are one that is still in the habit of rubbing your wrists together after applying a perfume…..try to remind yourself that this bruises the notes in the fragrance. Your diet can even have an effect on a fragrance as a spicy or high-fat diet can alter the actual scent. Fragrances are available in three concentrations: eau de parfum is a highly concentrated form and last four to six hours; eau de toilette, a slightly lower concentrate of the eau de parfum and lasts four to five hours; and the eau de cologne is a lighter interpretation of the fragrance and will last three to four hours. The eau de cologne must be applied more frequently than the other two forms. Have your scents made good sense! |
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