Comments on: How To Apply Fragrance? http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/ A perfume blog about all things perfume - reviews, shopping, recommendations. Wed, 26 May 2010 12:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Giselle http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3589 Giselle Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:27:03 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3589 After bathing or showering is the only time I apply serious scents. Still damp I apply body lotion. dry, I spray 6 to 8 inches from the body, back of knees, tummy, cleavage, behind ears, wrists, 1 spray each. then I am good to go. When I am not seriously scenting self, I sample on a non-perfumed body. I wear short sleeves and sample 1 perfume on left wrist and back of left hand (1 spray each 6 inches from skin) repeat process with another scent on right hand. This leaves room for 3 more sample scents (neck/ear area, and inside of elbows) so I can try 5 scents. I also use men's linen handkerchiefs instead of paper to apray samples on, and my handbag always smells so good with one or two of those in various pockets. I do the walk through spray once in a while (when I also don't mind perfuming my bedroom) I dab some perfumes, but rarely, I only own a dozen or so dabbers. As for people who tell you to get away from them --even if you are not wearing scent--"it must be on your clothes" they are just looking for negative attention--I know a woman who freaks out about perfumes, but other toxic smells --like dry cleaning fluid, bus exhaust fumes, etc...-- don't bother her at all. I mean she is fine with all these toxic fumes but if there is a TRACE of scent on your coat collar from a week earlier, she smells it and whines. OR she smells your freshly shampooed hair and starts whining-- Stay away--SHE is toxic. It seems everyone has to have something they act phobic about. I say wear perfume on the back of your neck--at the hairline--that way you can smell it better than they can-- if they whine say "I'm sorry but it is the product in my hair and it is hypo-allergenic." I love you but please get away...it must be on your clothes-- she just has to WIN and get you to stop doing something you love. Think about what motivates a person to insist like that. My cousin is freakish about scent and insists I'm wearing it when I am not, but she smells strongly of scented laundry detergent and bounce sheets. yuck. After bathing or showering is the only time I apply serious scents. Still damp I apply body lotion. dry, I spray 6 to 8 inches from the body, back of knees, tummy, cleavage, behind ears, wrists, 1 spray each. then I am good to go.

When I am not seriously scenting self, I sample on a non-perfumed body. I wear short sleeves and sample 1 perfume on left wrist and back of left hand (1 spray each 6 inches from skin)
repeat process with another scent on right hand. This leaves room for 3 more sample scents (neck/ear area, and inside of elbows) so I can try 5 scents. I also use men’s linen handkerchiefs instead of paper to apray samples on, and my handbag always smells so good with one or two of those in various pockets.

I do the walk through spray once in a while (when I also don’t mind perfuming my bedroom) I dab some perfumes, but rarely, I only own a dozen or so dabbers.

As for people who tell you to get away from them –even if you are not wearing scent–”it must be on your clothes” they are just looking for negative attention–I know a woman who freaks out about perfumes, but other toxic smells –like dry cleaning fluid, bus exhaust fumes, etc…– don’t bother her at all. I mean she is fine with all these toxic fumes but if there is a TRACE of scent on your coat collar from a week earlier, she smells it and whines. OR she smells your freshly shampooed hair and starts whining– Stay away–SHE is toxic. It seems everyone has to have something they act phobic about. I say wear perfume on the back of your neck–at the hairline–that way you can smell it better than they can–
if they whine say “I’m sorry but it is the product in my hair
and it is hypo-allergenic.”

I love you but please get away…it must be on your clothes–
she just has to WIN and get you to stop doing something you love. Think about what motivates a person to insist like that. My cousin is freakish about scent and insists I’m wearing it when I am not, but she smells strongly of scented laundry detergent and bounce sheets. yuck.

]]> By: Patricia Rojas http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3534 Patricia Rojas Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:33:42 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3534 I love all these ideas, unfortunately for me right now I'm working at a place where this woman can smell perfume a mile away and it does something to her nose and her chest. This morning I was talking to her and she said "I love you but please get away from my desk because I can smell your perfume". I told her I wasn't wearing any (I had on Onix body lotion) and she said it must be on my clothes!! This bothers me. I love perfume and I want to wear it every single day but I have to be careful at work, because some people are very sensitive to it. I wonder, what do they do for fragrance? I could not live my life without fragrance. I know that sounds dramatic, but I really can't fathom what it must be like to not be able to enjoy perfume. I love all these ideas, unfortunately for me right now I’m working at a place where this woman can smell perfume a mile away and it does something to her nose and her chest. This morning I was talking to her and she said “I love you but please get away from my desk because I can smell your perfume”. I told her I wasn’t wearing any (I had on Onix body lotion) and she said it must be on my clothes!! This bothers me. I love perfume and I want to wear it every single day but I have to be careful at work, because some people are very sensitive to it. I wonder, what do they do for fragrance? I could not live my life without fragrance. I know that sounds dramatic, but I really can’t fathom what it must be like to not be able to enjoy perfume.

]]> By: SniffQ http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3479 SniffQ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:22:55 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3479 Spray on the lower abdomen, touch each wrist to lower abdomen. No rubbing. Rubbing hastens drying and messes with the whole idea of spray dispersing droplets. Spray behind knees. If I'm particularly arthritic, skip knees and spray in small of back. If I'm a real spray slut, I'll sprtiz once into the dryer load of towels. Before turning on the dryer. I know it sounds barbaric, but the dryer is right next to the studio and Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Studio smells heavenly and towels smell divine for a day. If I'm flying or taking the metro, I limit sprays to lower abdomen and wrist pressing. I wear perfumes for myself and not everyone loves my perfumes. Now if only I could encourage all those Angel-wearers and the fruity-floral people to do the same. . . Spray on the lower abdomen, touch each wrist to lower abdomen. No rubbing. Rubbing hastens drying and messes with the whole idea of spray dispersing droplets.
Spray behind knees. If I’m particularly arthritic, skip knees and spray in small of back.
If I’m a real spray slut, I’ll sprtiz once into the dryer load of towels. Before turning on the dryer. I know it sounds barbaric, but the dryer is right next to the studio and Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Studio smells heavenly and towels smell divine for a day.
If I’m flying or taking the metro, I limit sprays to lower abdomen and wrist pressing. I wear perfumes for myself and not everyone loves my perfumes. Now if only I could encourage all those Angel-wearers and the fruity-floral people to do the same. . .

]]> By: evilpeony http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3474 evilpeony Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:06:32 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3474 Knickers? hehehehe... I'll try that out. :-) I generally spray my lower abdomen and my back (2 squirts each) ...but I don't get any waftage from that unless it's EDP. I just let the fragrance soak into my clothes and enjoy the scent when I get home. I'm pretty much limited in the amount and location of perfume I can spray on myself since I have co-workers who are particularly sensitive to perfume... Knickers? hehehehe… I’ll try that out. :-)

I generally spray my lower abdomen and my back (2 squirts each) …but I don’t get any waftage from that unless it’s EDP. I just let the fragrance soak into my clothes and enjoy the scent when I get home. I’m pretty much limited in the amount and location of perfume I can spray on myself since I have co-workers who are particularly sensitive to perfume…

]]> By: Tommasina http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3471 Tommasina Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:52:38 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3471 ARGH! - no! OK, so what are YOUR habits? ARGH! – no! OK, so what are YOUR habits?

]]> By: tmp00 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3464 tmp00 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:31:57 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3464 Oh we're reading. And taking notes. ;-) Oh we’re reading. And taking notes. ;-)

]]> By: Tommasina http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3461 Tommasina Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:49:47 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3461 Am I too late to comment? In no particular order, then... Wasn't there some discussion of rubbing vs. not rubbing wrists, on someone else's blog a couple of weeks ago? I seem to remember that the conclusion was that it's a personal choice: the scent molecules can't be crushed and all the action of rubbing does is (perhaps) hasten the perfume's development. For going to the gym - which I'm trying to do almost every day, in order to ward off excess pounds before they even happen! - I put on one of about 3 perfumes I have in rollerball (PdN Number One, JPG Classique, Borsari Violette) on the very tops of the inner sides of my arms. No, I don't mean in my armpits - not quite; but in this place I get to smell my perfume in wafts as I do, say, pull-downs. If that was too much information, then this may be worse; I'm not even sure I should be saying it, except that I read recently somewhere that this method is recommended in summer (it's not clear why exclusively then). Anyway - I sometimes spray some on what, in my native country we call my knickers; this way I can get a nice - uh - draft whenever I go to do the necessaries during the day. When I wear a skirt or a dress, I also get nice wafts of it when walking, too. Gawd, do I sound weird, or pervy, or what? Other methods of application include backs of wrists for bed time, since I tend to sleep with my arms over my face; a couple of sprays on my solar plexus for general 'waftage' and for getting it nicely onto whatever I'm wearing (sometimes I then smear the insides of my arms across my torso to pick some scent up on them, too.) This is sounding worse and worse, isn't it? OK, finally, this: I have long hair which I tend to wear up during the day and for concerts (I'm a classical singer); in order not to have perfume wafting up into my face - and thus, potentially, my mouth - I sometimes spray the back of my neck all along my hairline. With any luck nobody will be reading yesterday's posts and my strange habits will remain a secret... Am I too late to comment?

In no particular order, then… Wasn’t there some discussion of rubbing vs. not rubbing wrists, on someone else’s blog a couple of weeks ago? I seem to remember that the conclusion was that it’s a personal choice: the scent molecules can’t be crushed and all the action of rubbing does is (perhaps) hasten the perfume’s development.

For going to the gym – which I’m trying to do almost every day, in order to ward off excess pounds before they even happen! – I put on one of about 3 perfumes I have in rollerball (PdN Number One, JPG Classique, Borsari Violette) on the very tops of the inner sides of my arms. No, I don’t mean in my armpits – not quite; but in this place I get to smell my perfume in wafts as I do, say, pull-downs.

If that was too much information, then this may be worse; I’m not even sure I should be saying it, except that I read recently somewhere that this method is recommended in summer (it’s not clear why exclusively then). Anyway – I sometimes spray some on what, in my native country we call my knickers; this way I can get a nice – uh – draft whenever I go to do the necessaries during the day. When I wear a skirt or a dress, I also get nice wafts of it when walking, too.

Gawd, do I sound weird, or pervy, or what?

Other methods of application include backs of wrists for bed time, since I tend to sleep with my arms over my face; a couple of sprays on my solar plexus for general ‘waftage’ and for getting it nicely onto whatever I’m wearing (sometimes I then smear the insides of my arms across my torso to pick some scent up on them, too.)

This is sounding worse and worse, isn’t it?

OK, finally, this: I have long hair which I tend to wear up during the day and for concerts (I’m a classical singer); in order not to have perfume wafting up into my face – and thus, potentially, my mouth – I sometimes spray the back of my neck all along my hairline.

With any luck nobody will be reading yesterday’s posts and my strange habits will remain a secret…

]]> By: Emotenote http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3442 Emotenote Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:13:31 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3442 With stronger fragrances I'm a thigh person, since I tend to wear skirts alot. With something more subtle the chest area. The only time I do wrists is when testing small amounts since I don't like the smell of perfume when I'm eating no matter how beautiful. For a romantic night some might be on the neck. Since my sense of smell is pretty sensitive I'm not too fond of smelling fragrance on my clothing since it mixes with so many other oders and might spoil the actual fragrance for me. With stronger fragrances I’m a thigh person, since I tend to wear skirts alot. With something more subtle the chest area. The only time I do wrists is when testing small amounts since I don’t like the smell of perfume when I’m eating no matter how beautiful. For a romantic night some might be on the neck. Since my sense of smell is pretty sensitive I’m not too fond of smelling fragrance on my clothing since it mixes with so many other oders and might spoil the actual fragrance for me.

]]> By: greeneyes http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3435 greeneyes Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:41:51 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3435 I spray on each wrist (if a scent is strong, I will apply to one wrist and then gently press the other wrist against it--no rubbing), in the "neck hollow," as Judith called it, and the nape of my neck (if the scent is a light one). I also avoid spraying it on my hair, because hair product and oil from hair can change a scent. I also do not spray perfume on my clothes...I've tried the walk-through method, and I find in general that it does not work! My theory is that only people who fear perfume do this... I spray on each wrist (if a scent is strong, I will apply to one wrist and then gently press the other wrist against it–no rubbing), in the “neck hollow,” as Judith called it, and the nape of my neck (if the scent is a light one). I also avoid spraying it on my hair, because hair product and oil from hair can change a scent. I also do not spray perfume on my clothes…I’ve tried the walk-through method, and I find in general that it does not work! My theory is that only people who fear perfume do this…

]]> By: tmp00 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/comment-page-1/#comment-3434 tmp00 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:19:54 +0000 http://www.aromascope.com/wp/2006/12/05/how-to-apply-fragrance/#comment-3434 I usually only spray (or dab, depending on the bottle) one or two onto my sternum before leaving the house. This gets it ever sl slightly in the shirt I'm wearing but makes sure that even though I get whiffs of it during the day, most people around me do not. I usually only spray (or dab, depending on the bottle) one or two onto my sternum before leaving the house. This gets it ever sl slightly in the shirt I’m wearing but makes sure that even though I get whiffs of it during the day, most people around me do not.

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