How to Choose a Perfume

The perfume market is so vast it can be difficult to choose the best perfumes that suit your own unique personality.

Your perfume should convey your personal sense of individuality, your tastes, and your personality. Many individuals also prefer to own various completely different perfumes, to mirror specific moods, or to be suitable for particular occasions.

When shopping for a new fragrance, keep in mind that а fragrance should complement the person who wears it.

How to Choose a Perfume in Store

Choose а perfume in the afternoon, when the sense of smell is at its peak. Never test more than three perfumes at a time. Just go out of the store and come back after or smell the coffee beans this will also restore your sense of smell and help to choose a perfume.

Every individual has a different body chemistry and a fragrance can smell different on different people because of its interaction with the person's chemicals. Thus you are better off spraying the perfume onto your skin directly.

The best place to apply perfume on your body, are specific areas known as pulse points.

These areas include the wrists, the bend of the elbows, between the breasts, behind the knees and behind the ankles. Usually several of sprays is enough to be effective.
Avoid heavy scents in hot weather, as the scent can be over-powering.

Try to choose a cooler perfume that invigorates and refreshes in the hot season. Also, keep in mind that in cold weather, flavors often lose their intensity.

Once you apply a scent, wait for about half an hour. If you cannot smell anything by that time, but other people can, then that scent is meant for you.

Classification of Perfumes

Fragrance is a mixture of aromatic essential oils and aromatic compounds, perfume solvents and fixatives.

The intensity and persistence of a perfumes depends on many factors: the intensity, concentration and durability of the aromatic compounds used.

Thе Concentration by оf Perfume Oil is аs Follows:

- Perfume Extract: 15-40% aromatic compounds
- Esprit de Parfum: about 15-30% aromatic compounds
- Eau de Parfum or Parfum de Toilette (EDP): 10-20% aromatics
- Eau de Toilette (EDT): 5-15% aromatic compounds
- Eau de Cologne: about 3-8% aromatic compounds

Choosing a Perfume. The Fragrances Come in Classes:

- Floral
- Fruity
- Citrus
- Gourmand
- Green
- Oriental
- Oceanic

Selectable Perfume Fragrances can be Natural or Synthetic

About two-thirds of the composition of modern fragrances in the world are synthetic derivatives, while the rest can be obtained naturally. Also, some brands may contain up to 55-60% or more natural ingredients.

Perfumes can also change their flavor if they are not stored properly, be sure to keep your perfume away from heat and direct light. Ideal for the best storage condition of the fragrance is the room temperature.

When you choose your own perfect perfume it will mean that you will have the appropriate fragrance at hand for every occasion in your daily life.