“A perfume is like a new dress. It makes you quite simply marvelous” – Estee Lauder
Someone also truly said that you are never fully dressed without a perfume. A perfume creates an impression about a person and one must not step out of the house without spraying a nice perfume. There are many perfumes in the market for each and everyone’s taste bud. But one of the major challenges that everyone faces is that perfumes don’t last long. When you start the day, you smell really good but when you return home, the smell of the perfume doesn’t remain the same – right? So, make your life easier, here we are sharing some tips. You may apply these following easy and simple tricks to make your perfumes last for a longer period of time.
Check Where You Store:
One of the most important point to remember is the storage of a perfume in case you want to make it stay for a longer time. Heat, light, and humidity condition hugely affect the performance of a perfume. The extreme of these three things may break down the quality of the perfume. Many of you may have a habit of keeping the perfume around the bathroom sink. You must avoid that and keep it in a cool, dark, and dry place away from the window to keep the perfume as fresh when bought.
The Famous Lotion Hack:
To make your perfume last for a longer period of time, you can try the lotion or Vaseline hack. Before spraying the perfume on any part of your body, simply rub a non-scented lotion or Vaseline. The wrist, neck, elbow, ankles, and knees are the places where you can try this trick and your moist skin will hold the perfume for a longer time.
Apply on Hair:
The prime objective of a perfume is to make people smell good. That smell should be perceived by the people around you too. One of the simplest ways to make people feel that you have a good smell is to apply the fragrance on your hair strands. Now, that doesn’t mean that the perfume has to be sprayed on your hair strands directly as that would damage your hair. Apply the perfume on your hairbrush slightly and run it through your hair strands. In tropical climates, the summer season is intolerable during the sultry summer season. Hair also starts to smell bad with increased sweating. This simple and easy trick would solve your problem.
Apply Right after the Shower:
Right after you are done with your relaxing shower, apply the fragrance immediately to make it last longer. The skin is softer right after the shower and the moisture on the skin would hold the fragrance for a longer time.
Don’t Rub after Applying on the Wrist:
One trick that generally all women across the world follows is that they spray the perfume on their wrist and rub it. They do it to smell good of course but half the trick is wrong. Once you have applied the fragrance on your wrist, you should not rub it as rubbing breaks the effectiveness of a perfume. The notes diminish with this rubbing. So, just spray it on your wrist and keep it like that!
Target the Pulse Points:
Perfume is applied to eliminate the bad smell and that’s why you should know the target points of perfume application. Wrist, knees, neck, inside of the elbows, and armpits are the pulse points where the perfume needs to be sprayed. You would smell perfectly all through the day with this very easy and simple trick.
Spray Between the Clothes:
Firstly, spray your favorite perfume on a few tissue papers and then keep them right in your wardrobe in between your clothes. This will keep your clothes mildly scented and thus when you would wear those clothes and apply the perfume again at the pulse points, your perfume would stay for a longer time.
Choose Stronger Notes:
One of the most important point to remember if you want to make your perfume last for a longer time is the “notes of perfumes”. The perfumes with mild notes would obviously smell milder. So, you have to choose the stronger perfumes made from musk, patchouli, or vanilla as they really stay longer.
Don’t Shake the Bottle:
There is another habit that almost everyone follows is to shake up the bottle of perfume before using it. This action actually kills the quality of the perfume and the air bubbles created after shaking disturb the notes. So, simply avoid shaking the perfume bottle before use.
Check the Expiration Date:
Last but not the least, you must always check the expiration date of the perfume you are using. Maybe you have a perfume which is 3-5 years old. You must have kept it or used it less because you love its fragrance. But using that perfume which has crossed the expiration date would make it less effective.
Perfume forms a very important part of your personality. So, knowing these simple and easy ways to make it last longer would help you in many ways to impress people around you. In case, you know some more tricks to make a perfume last longer, feel free to share your thoughts and ideas.