How To Choose A Perfume That Suits You

Choosing how you smell is a personal choice depending on your personal flavor. Unique smells often make a strong connection with the brain and memory. Your fragrance leaves behind a strong impression on the people you encounter in daily activities. Therefore, picking your fragrance is very important and can even be a challenging task.

It is usually difficult to explain the scent of perfumes. It can even vary slightly with each individual’s instincts. You’ll have to try out all types of perfumes to identify your best choice. But after trying out a few, you will understand it is difficult to identify each scent separately, as they all start to smell similar. This is why we bring you the handiest tips that would help you pick the perfect perfume destined to be yours.

How to Choose a Perfume

Before you go out shopping for perfume, follow these guidelines, which would help you find your fragrance identity, which you would wear for years with love. Let’s check out the tips!

Do not wear any perfume.

This is one of the most important factors you should consider when visiting a store. Do not wear any perfume on yourself before you go shopping, as the scent on yourself would interfere with the new perfumes that you are going to try out. When you do not have any scent on you, the new scents you smell would blend well with your skin and create a unique match. This would create the real effect of you wearing the perfume after you buy it. Hence, you can easily identify what smells best on you.

Limit your sniffing.

Keep in mind not to try out so many perfumes all at once. Take a break off after smelling about three perfumes. Trying out so many at once would make you immune to fragrance, and you would not feel the scent accurately. It is recommended to try the fragrance on you for about 24 hours before you make the choice. Even though this might be less practical when choosing a perfume from a store, it can be suggested as the most suitable way to experience the true nature of your perfume.

Spend more time

There are three stages of the period that the perfume lasts. At the moment the perfume is sprayed, the highly penetrating stage of scent is known as the “top note”, and would last only for a short time. Then the scent would turn into “heart notes,” which would be the intermediate scent. After some time, the long-lasting stage of scent is known as the “base note” and this is the fragrance that would accompany you throughout the day. The base note can be identified only after about 15 or 20 minutes. This is the reason you should not rush to make the decisions when picking your fragrance.

Try lighter scents first.

When smelling perfumes, always make sure to try out the light-smelling perfumes first. This is because once again, you would be scent immune due to the high penetrating fragrances of the heavy ones. So first, try the musky scents and leave the fruity scents towards the end. Now, if you are wondering what these types are, let’s find out them in a moment in the description below.

Choose your choice

You might be shopping with your best friends or family. They would also help you pick the best they think is good for you. Nevertheless, the feeling of scent varies from person to person, and you do not need to agree on their choice always. Follow your instincts and pick what you think is the best for you.

Picking Your Fragrance

There are certain types and varieties that you need to know before you choose your scent. The following list describes the basic categories of perfumes.

Musky scent can be described as a clean smell

Smoky scent is more similar to smoke and burning wood or fire
Woody scent imitates the cedar wood smell which is slightly heavy
Green scent reminds you of a fresh lawn with morning dew

Citrusy scent is the juicy fruit flavor of oranges, lime, and lemons
Oriental scent is a very strong smell of burning incense
Floral scent smells of flowers as clear from its name

Aquatic scent brings the lively fragrance of freshwater

List of Perfume Oil Types

Usually, the fragrances of perfumes are derived from the natural aroma of flowers and plant extractions. Some are created synthetically in laboratories in varying concentrations. This task of creating perfumes is not easy and requires a team of people with good instincts and also needs few hundreds of ingredients to create one unique aroma. These ingredients may smell unpleasant individually and hence requires perfect combination and work of many long days to create the ultimate perfume. Usually, the perfume contains around 22% of essence oil. Let’s have a look at the list of perfume oil types.

Amaryllis – Extracted from lily-like plant and usually blended with Rose and Neroli

Bay Leaf Oil – Extracted from the leaves of West Indies trees and commonly used in masculine perfumes
Bergamot – Extracted from nearly ripe bergamot oranges
Cedarwood Oil – extracted from American Cedar and creates a good base note for masculine perfumes

Citronella – Extracted from Sri Lankan grass and creates a sweet aroma of dewy grass
Clove – extracted from clove, a tropical spice of high scent
Galbanum – Extracted from gum resins and creates a green note

Gardenia – Extracted from the flowers and is considered a very valuable ingredient in creating delicate fragrances
Geranium – Extracted from the leaves and stems of a South African plant and is a very common perfume oil
Ginger – Extracted from ginger, a tropical spice with an oriental fragrance

Hyacinth – Extracted just at the moment when the flower initially appears on the plant and consists of a powerful and sweet scent
Jasmine – Extracted from the flower and is an iconic and a most significant aroma
Lavender – Extracted from Lavender and commonly used in aromatherapy