10 PERFUME FACTS THAT CAN STEAL YOUR BREATH AWAY!
We bet you didn’t know these ten facts about fragrances that everybody has been hiding! Know it now, keep reading! Warning, this can steal your breath and nose away!
- YOUR PERFUME DOESN’T SMELL THE SAME AS WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT!
Did you know that your perfumes change fragrances with time? What you first breathe in is the top notes, which slowly grows into its heart note and then the base note that stays the longest. Next time you buy a scent, get to know all the three levels.
- MOISTURISE FIRST, MAKE IT SMELL NICE LATER
One way that can make your fragrances even sweeter and make people go ‘what a soothing scent you own’ is to moisturize your pulse points before spraying your perfume all over! The smell works better and stays longer on hydrated and moisturized skin. Try it now and thank me later!
NEVER GO FOR THE FIRST IMPRESSION
Next time you go for a fragrance shopping spree, don’t inhale the perfume the second it’s sprayed on your wrist. Wait for a few seconds and then smell it as the first set of accords turn into vapor easily and isn’t the main flavor that decides the smell.
- SYNTHETIC IS NOT BAD!
We have a misconception about synthetic materials in perfumes being harsh on the skin or degrading to one’s health. That’s untrue, synthetic ingredients replace the original flavors or flowers in perfumes to keep it intact for a longer time and increase its expiration date.
- WOMEN HAS A BETTER NOSE THAN MEN
Yes, you heard it right! Women are more inclined and have a better taste in choosing and identifying fragrances. With a more developed orbital prefrontal region of the brain, women takes a level higher by birth in the perfume industry, owing to the increased catering and marketing focused over the female gender.
- NOT ON THE HAIR
you often hear people saying ‘Wear your perfume on the hair, it smells great!’ Well, most perfumes have alcoholic substitues that can cause frizziness and damage your hair. When somebody tells you to do it, know its not right! Hair and body perfumes arent good friends!
NOT EVERY INGREDIENT HAS A CLEAN START
Who knew ambergris that gives a fresh ocean and aquatic fragrance comes from the sperms inside a shark that I gathered through its vomit? Well, they do smell great though, but mostly synthetic replicas of the same are used extensively in the perfume indsutry.
- FRAGRANCES CAN BE APHRODISIAC!
Just like chocolates, vanilla, a nice candle-lit room, and stars beyond, fragrances can be a great aphrodisiac. It can turn on your partner and intoxicate seduction easily, that’s why ladies are asked to spray the perfume where they wish to be kissed!
- JEAN CARLES AND HIS NOSE
If you haven’t heard of Jean Carles, there you go! He is known to have rented his nose out for a million dollars. Can your nose be any useful more than giving you the breath to live? Miss Dior is one of his creations that reached the ultimatum.
- STORY BEHIND CHANEL 5
Coco Chanel had one particular smell that stayed since her childhood, that of the soap and scrubbed skin from her mother who did laundry for a living. And when Marilyn Monroe made the Chanel 5 famous, who knew the ingredient in it resembles the same nostalgic scent from Coco’s childhood days!