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Making Perfume Last Longer
Perfume, the "ultimate sensory experience, calling up emotions and forgotten memories," lasts on the skin for varying periods of time. Normally, they should last for about six to eight hours while an eau de toilette can last for about three to four hours.
If you have oily skin, it will retain scent longer than dry or combination skin because it contains more natural moisture than other skin types. Besides, your personal pH level or the amount of acidity your skin type contains determines how a scent or fragrance will react to your skin.
In addition, the fact that you are pregnant, menopausal, stressed, under medication or undergoing hormonal changes can affect how scent smells on you and the duration that it will last on your skin.
If you want your scent to last as long as possible on your skin, layer it. This means that you use two or three products of the same scent. For example, first apply body wash on your skin which contains three to five percent of essential oils, and then follow it up with a complementary scented soap. But if you choose a perfume that does not have a complementary soap, go in for a non-scented soap.
Take a shower and while your skin is still wet, apply body cream or lotion generously and then add spritz or dab on some of your choice of fragrance on your pulse points. In these areas, your skin will absorb the fragrance and give off a perfume with a long-lasting power. Once you layer your skin, perfume can last for many hours and, in certain cases, even the next day.
However, take care not to apply scent behind your ears since this area is full of sebaceous glands, which will determine how the perfume smells when you first apply it, and hours later too.
More tips:
- Apply perfume soon after a shower or bath as your pores are open now and will absorb it. So, while you are still undressed after a bath, spray or dab on perfume so it works better.
- If you have oily skin, apply a little petroleum jelly to those parts of your body where you intend applying perfume. The perfume will cling to the jelly and so increase its lasting power.
- Apply spray from the ankles upwards because perfume rises and usually lingers longer.
- Do not use your fingers to apply it but put it on a cotton ball and then dab it on your skin. Alternatively, use an atomizer.
- Hold the spray bottle about 20 cm away from your body and spray an even amount on a large part of your body so that it lasts longer.
- For long-lasting effect, apply perfume on your pulse points-sides of the neck, wrists, insides of elbows, between the breasts, ankles and behind the knees.
- Do not rub your wrists after applying perfume as it will not increase the fragrance but distort the notes that make up the perfume.
Indulge in luxurious perfumes and body lotions and see how each day can feel like a very special occasion.