Perhaps you have experienced this: getting a new perfume and enthusiastically wearing it, but it fades after three hours or less. This is unfortunate because we wear perfumes for one reason—to enjoy them.
Our skin types vary. Therefore, we should also expect perfumes to be different. However, how we apply our perfumes greatly affects their longevity, too. Here are tips to help you make your perfume last longer on the skin:
1. Put Notes in the Fragrance into Consideration
Some perfume fragrance notes are long-lasting and rich, while others are volatile. Aquatic, citrus and green notes are the most common volatile fragrances, whereas spice scents, ambers, woods, and musks are long-lasting notes.
2. Apply Perfume to Every Pulse Point
A pulse point is an area where we can feel our arterial pulses. Pulse points are the best places to wear fragrances because they are the warmest in our body.
Applying perfumes to pulse points usually helps to intensify the scent and boost its longevity. Examples of pulse points include:
- Wrists
- Neck
- Backs of the knees
- Inside the elbows
- Ears
3. Wear Perfumes After Taking a Shower
Moisture often locks in scented products. Therefore, applying your product to moisturised and damp skin makes it linger. This also enables you to wear your perfume on bare skin.
4. Hydrate Your Skin Before You Apply
Did you know that perfumes and fragrances hold better if we apply them to hydrated skin? Fragrances usually cling to emollients to moisturise skin, helping your product last longer.
Any lotion may hydrate our skin, but scented body lotions and body washes that match our signature scents can help create immersive fragrance experiences.
Apart from hydrating your skin to ensure your perfume lasts longer, using such scented products helps provide more fragrances that can slightly linger throughout the day.
5. Apply to Pressure Points and Avoid Rubbing It
Wearing perfume onto your wrist and rubbing it or spraying perfume in the air and simply walking into it isn’t the way to go. Doing that wastes your expensive perfume, and rubbing it together only breaks down the product. This, in turn, makes the scent trails fade more quickly. Keep things simple by spritzing the product onto all the intended areas and avoiding rubbing it.
6. Let the Product Dry First
Mostly, scented products change as they gradually dry out after their application. When you apply them for the first time, the top notes of fragrances will be noticeable. Over time, it changes through its base notes and heart notes.
Some actions, like not waiting for scented products to dry properly before getting dressed or rubbing your wrist, can disrupt their drying process. This can change the scent, making it end faster. Always let your fragrance settle fully if you are expecting a long-lasting effect.
7. Know and Understand Your Skin Tone
Our skin tones can affect how long perfumes last. Skin tone is part of the intriguing way perfumes develop after they interact with the wearer’s skin.
A darker skin tone holds onto some fragrances longer simply because they have more natural oils that help retain and capture the scent.
But if you have a lighter skin tone, don’t worry. You may achieve the same effect by applying the right moisturising cream to the pulse points.
8. Think of Seasons
Alter your product choices according to different scents. During summer, opt for citrusy and lighter fragrances that can beat the heat.
Consider a warmer and richer scent with a deep base note in colder months. This will ensure a longer-lasting and more harmonious olfactory experience, which suits the climate for aromatic expressions.
9. Layer the Scents
Try layering your perfume with another scented product from the fragrance line to ensure a longer-lasting and stronger scent. Consider starting with a scented shower gel or body wash, following a scented/matching body cream or lotion, and applying your fragrance on top.
Layering scents often help create a more intensified and complex fragrance experience that can linger on our skin throughout.
10. Spray on the Hair as Well
Have you ever sprayed fragrance on your hair by mistake? If yes, you may have noticed that the fragrance lingers longer on the hair than on the skin.
Do you know why? The answer is simple – fragrance often permeates our stands and lasts longer. But you don’t want to douse your fair completely with perfume as it may damage your hair strands.
Instead, shop for a gift set with scented shampoos and hair mist/fragrances. These are often less concentrated and manufactured with extra oils that can help nourish your hair.
11.Spray Your Clothes
If your fragrance disappears on the skin faster than you would like, consider spritzing some scent on the clothes. Fabric fibres usually retain scents and ensure they last longer.
Just ensure the fabric isn’t affected negatively. For instance, fabrics such as silk can react negatively when you spray fragrance on them.
12.Choose an EDP
Chances are, we’ve seen some products written EDP (eau de parfum) or EDT (eau de toilette) on their labels. Usually, EDP has a higher concentration of scented oil (about 25%), which makes it longer-lasting and strong. On the other hand, EDT is loved for airier and lighter applications, with around 15% of scented oil.
13.Keep the Product in a Dark and Clean Place
Keeping your products in a dark and clean place can be invaluable advice for everyone looking to uncover how to make their products last longer.
Perfumes, because of their chemical compositions, are volatile products. That means it can naturally oxidise and evaporate with time, eventually degrading as a result of certain environmental factors, like the following:
- Sunlight
- Warmth
Keep your product in a dark box, wine cellar, or wardrobe if possible. This will keep the scents intact for a longer period.
The bottom line is that you may buy various concentrations of fragrances. The strength of a you buy determines how long it will last on your skin. The more concentrated products cost more, whereas less concentrated products cost less. You may also buy fragrances with long shelf lives. A perfume with a more prominent base note can have a longer shelf life than a prominent top note.
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