Tips to Choose a Perfume
If you thought that choosing a perfume is as easy as walking into a store, inhaling a perfume sample and buying it, you are mistaken. Buying the right perfume will speak loads about your temperament and mood.
Types of Fragrance
While on a perfume shopping trip, we tend to pick up a perfume largely influenced by the popularity of the brand name. However, whatever the brand, fragrances are divided into eight broad categories. Floral fragrances are by far the most famous. Single flower, floral blends and fresh flower aromas belong to this category. Scents of orange, lemon, apple, berries and bergamot belong to the citrus fruit fragrance category. Sandalwood, pine, patchouli and cedar belong to the woody fragrance category.
Aquatic fragrances comprise of ocean or rain fresh perfumes. Oriental fragrance largely comprise of blends of Oriental flowers, blend of spice and woody aroma or vanilla and amber scents. Fragrance of spring leaves or freshly mown grass is emitted in nature green fragrances. Fougere are popular masculine category fragrances with the aroma of lavender, citrus, fern and woods. You can get scent of moss and patchouli from the chypre category of perfume.
Fragrance for men and women
Traditionally fragrances tended to be different for men and women. Women used largely floral fragrances. Woody and citrus fragrances are largely considered as masculine fragrances. Nowadays, although gender specific fragrances are available, but unisex perfumes are becoming equally popular.
Despite their high price tag, perfumes or colognes of reputed brands are preferable to body sprays, eau de cologne or deodorants. The odor of a good perfume stays for hours, covering up bad body odor as long as possible.
Do not apply too much of the fragrance. People around you might not appreciate the strong fragrance. Unless you want to portray consciously a loud image of yourself, a subtle fragrance will make you appear more sophisticated. Instead of spraying perfume allover your clothes, apply it only at the pulse points on your palms and behind the ear lobes.
