Fragrances
and Skin: Chemistry and Reactions
- by KissMeGoodnight.com
Fragrances are a multi-billion dollar industry.
People love perfumes. They like scents in everything they use.
In our society, we use perfumes in almost every product we
make. Perfumes are in our soap and our cleaning products. We
use perfumes to freshen our air, our bodies, and our pets.
We cannot escape these scents in our society. People have used
perfumes for thousands of years for a number of different reasons.
In recent years, perfumes have become less expensive. As a
result, more and more people are able to purchase them in a
variety of products. Different fragrances, though, smell different
on individuals, no matter what product the fragrance appears
in. As a result, it is essential to choose your fragrances
carefully.
Fragrances
work when they are applied to the skin. As your
body heat rises, the perfume starts its magic. Perfumes smell
differently because of a difference in body chemistry. Several
factors can play a role in this including diet, acid balance,
medication, skin oil, pigmentation, mood, and environmental
factor. For example, if you were on a higher fat intake diet,
the scents placed on your skin would be far more powerful than
they might be on a person's skin who were on a lower fat intake
diet. Dramatic diet changes within your life can change the
way your standard fragrances smell on you. Another good example
is skin type. Folks with oily skin have perfumes that offer
a more intense scent. People with dry skin have to reapply
their fragrance often to get the same kinds of scent results.
These factors not only change the actual scent on your skin,
they can also have an influence over how long the perfume will
last on your skin. If you notice that your favorite scent has
undergone a change, you should think about what has changed
in your life. Maybe you've just become so accustomed to your
regular scent that you simply cannot smell it anymore. Whatever
it is, it might be time for you to consider a new scent.
As you begin to choose the right fragrance, there are a
few important things to remember. Everyone has an approximate circle
around their body where people should be able to smell your
scent. Hold your arm out directly in front of you. If people
can smell your perfume from further away than that, you are
either using the wrong perfume, (it is having a poor reaction
with your body chemistry) or you are using the right perfume
poorly. Remember that fragrance is supposed to be a personal
message, not an announcement broadcast over a public address
system. To use your fragrance correctly, layer it over your
body. Build a foundation with eau de perfum. Spray it on your
skin from your feet to your shoulders. Then use your perfume.
Apply it to your pulse points. These are the areas of your
body where you can feel your heartbeat. Some common pulse points
are the wrists, behind the ears, the crook of your elbow, the
base of your throat, behind your knees, and inside your ankles.
As you begin to try to process this information and shop for
the right scent for you, make it a rule to never try
out more than three scents at a time while you are shopping. Eventually,
your nose with its sensitive olfactory receptors will no longer
be able to appropriately process all of the signals you attempt
to send to your brain with the various fragrances you have
tried on. Moreover, you should apply the test fragrance directly
to your skin. If you just smell it in the bottle, you will
have no sense of how your body will work with the fragrance.
Apply a few drops to your wrist. Wait a moment or two, and
then smell it. If you want to try another, apply it to the
other wrist. If you'd like to try a third, apply it to the
inside of your elbow. Be sure to stop after the third one.
It might be best to create a wardrobe of fragrances, so you
can accommodate the changes in your body chemistry. The inner
workings of fragrances can be quite complex, and your body
chemistry has everything to do with it.
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KissMeGoodnight.com
: 2006
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