Having a complete and varied collection of perfume can be a very valuable and enjoyable part of anyone’s collection of beauty products and accessories. Perfume is amazing in its effect on people. Psychologists know that scent is the sense most tied to memory, and the one thing that can truly bring back old feelings or memories is a familiar smell. This works both on others and ourselves, and wearing a certain perfume can help get us or others into a certain frame of mind.

Choosing perfumes is a subject on which it is almost entirely impossible to give advice on.  That is because that a perfume never smells on a person anything like what it smells coming out of a bottle. That is because as soon as it reaches your body the scents in the perfume are meeting and reacting with your bodies individual chemistry creating a smell reminiscent of the bottled stuff, but unique to you. For that reason, it’s really best to experiment with perfumes before buying. Samplers and testers a great thing and you should use them amply before deciding on a new purchase.

Our bodies and our noses become used to a smell. If you wear the same perfume day in day out people will stop noticing the way you smell after a while. That’s why it can be useful to have different perfumes for different occasions. That way when you put on a little of something that you only use for nights out, and not the stuff you regularly wear to work, everyone will look at you a little differently, even if they don’t know exactly why. The effect that scent has on the people around us can be subtle at times but it is very powerful. Scent is also one of the strongest unconscious reasons for attraction, and finding the perfume can have a devastating effect on your partner!

Don’t be afraid to try different perfumes. Not only will it make other people notice you differently it can make you feel different about yourself. Perfume if you will, is an ongoing aromatherapy treatment, as you will smell it most of the day. Make sure to choose something that makes you feel good, and not something that you find oppressive after a day’s wear, or that you stop noticing after a while. The more time you take and experiments you do the happier you will be when you add something to your permanent collection.