Best Spots To Apply Perfume

• It is not moronic to spritz perfume in the air and walk through it. Just be prepared to clean up an oily patch of perfume that might have landed onto the floor.
• Go ahead and spritz some on your hair too!
• Never spray perfume onto silk. It will spoil the silk.
• People with oily skin tend to have stronger fragrance as compared to those with dry skin.
• Since perfume scent retains longer on oily skin, apply a layer of oil-based natural skin lotion onto the skin before putting on perfume.
• Best spots to apply perfume: the nape (back) of the neck, inner elbow, cleavage, behind the ears and along the shoulders.
• To prolong a bottle of perfume, place it in a cool dry place. Exposure to sun can lead to discoloration, smell alteration and evaporation.
• If you have fallen deeply in love with a perfume that your skin is allergic to, why not use it to scent your bags, purses, hair, jackets (or clothes that are not directly in contact with your skin). That should be some consolation!
• To test if the skin is allergic to a particular perfume, try this: apply a small amount on the wrist, or the inner elbow or the back of the hand/arm and if there is a reaction after 1 hour, then the perfume is probably not for suitable.
• Test just 4 different types of perfumes at a time. Too many varieties can be confusing to the nose, otherwise you can sniff some coffee powder to bring back its neutral state and continue with the testing.

  You should also test how the fragrance turns out after about 10 minutes, after the alcohol has evaporated and the perfume would have blended with the natural oils of your skin.

• When the weather is hot, avoid applying fragrance on exposed areas as the heat reaction may cause skin irritation.
• Sunlight can react with the chemicals in a perfume to cause pigmentation as seen on the necks of people after years of applying perfume on the same spot.

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