Visionaire Fashion, Tom Ford by Plamen Petkov

I have seen many articles giving tips on how to apply/store/purchase perfumes, or with FAQ responses. Some where very useful...some only missed the point. This month Brazilian Elle magazine published an special issue nearly perfumes, and the answers of perfumery FAQs were supposedly answered by "experts in perfumery". In some of the answers I constitute surprising wrong explanations. I decided to make something similar here for my readers.

Can I apply perfume on my hair?

HELL NO!!! You spend so much money in treatments to brand your hair beautiful, shinny and soft, why to ruin all your endeavour in seconds??? Perfumes incorporate alcohol, that not only will dry your hair, but it can likewise damage the color. Besides, if they are not to be applied on dress and furniture because they can stain them...use your common sense and endeavor to movie what they volition practice to your hair, specially if colored.

And then what is the best mode to utilise my perfume?

The classic way dear. Utilize minor amounts on you wrists and behind both ears. Some ladies similar to use on the chest (cleavage) or behind the knees, when wearing a sexy dress.

But I heard that rubbing fragrance applied on the wrists can ruin it!

False. Rubbing will just estrus the skin and perhaps the top notes will evaporate faster. But that is all that can happen. Touching both wrists volition do no damage, believe me!

What about spraying on the air and entering the cloud to become a homogeneous spread of the fragrance?

Ok, hither I accept 2 answers for you:

one.If y'all mind your finances, don't fifty-fifty consider doing this! Besides, it might autumn on the hair, dress, eyes, furniture, jewelry, etc...

two.If you want to have the Cleopatra or Diva style, than it is up to you to alive a lie that yous are been gloriously perfumed by a cloud of fragrance. It is upwards to yous really. In my opinion information technology is a waste of adept perfume.

My fragrance smells different (or amend) on my friend, sister, mom...why????

This is partially true. The fragrance is always the same, if fresh. Your friend smells different than y'all, non the fragrance she is wearing! That happens due to many factors: She uses different beauty & cosmetic products than you, such equally scented pilus products, deodorants, torso lotions, soaps, scented make- up and so on... besides, her genes (heritage and health conditions) are different than yours. The combination of these factors produce dissimilar results on both of you ladies.

Than at that place is the emotional cistron:

If your perception of your fragrance on your friend was  not in the same day you lot tried on yourself, you are using your retention, not a technical tool to measure how similar or dissimilar y'all and her olfactory property.

The industry sells this idea that every woman smells dissimilar wearing X perfume, to sell more. With the uniqueness idea on your mind, you will probably not mind that 1000s of other women are in fact smelling just like you are! And then maybe you lot are just influenced past this mislead concept.

And near of all: the neighbour's grass is e'er greener, right? Why don't you mind your own fragrance? Focus on how YOU are smelling.

Tin can I wear a masculine fragrance being a woman? Tin can I wear a feminine fragrance being a human being?

I can give you 2 answers:

Some masculine fragrances have a big dose of flowers and tin produce a cute effect on women. Some feminine fragrances are not that girlie, so yes information technology can be shared with the masculine public. But a typical masculine fragrance was designed for men, and vice versa. Information technology all depends on the message/image yous want to pass/reflect...I don't want to pride...

Why the fragrance I loved in the past (mentioning the brand and perfume) smells unlike (weaker, bad fixation) today ?

That could happen for some reasons:

How old were you when you used that fragrance? It matters because our sense of odour reduces equally nosotros historic period. So peradventure your perception of the fragrance is different, not the fragrance itself.

Many fragrances had to exist reformulated to adapt to new health regulations, and then probably the original you mentioned contained raw materials that are forbidden today.

Perchance the make had to accommodate to a new budget, substituting some of the most expensive raw materials for cheaper ones. It happens. Sad to break it to you!

Tin I apply perfume wearing jewelry?

Ever apply your fragrance before dressing and putting all your accessories.


What do I do if I put too much perfume?
Well, pray you won't meet an allergic freak!
I saw some people advising to take a good shower. Really?

Why sometimes I don't discover the notes mentioned in a review of a fragrance? Sometimes I find notes that were not mentioned too!

In that location is a funny thing nigh smells. Sometimes we haven't noticed them until someone mentions it. That is because you were focusing into something else that was more (or less) appealing to you. Your perception of the fragrance is filtered by your life experience, your groundwork, your interests.

I case: I had lunch with 2 friends and we were commenting on a new shopping mall. The mall is always the same, but the comments were so different:

Friend A (works well-nigh the new mall) I loved the mall - information technology has  2 salons, a peachy picture palace and the food courtroom is so silent!

Friend B (snobby and very social) I hated that mall. So empty...I will probably never see someone I know because the shops are kinda cheap.

Me - very practical existence - I loved that I have one more than mall near my home, and that non a lot of people have discovered it yet. I tin can drive, park, buy and leave in 1/two an hour!

So every bit yous can run into, one focused on the quality of the people shopping and the shops available; the other is more concerned virtually the quality of the environment offered then she can take tiffin in quiet place, and I, the distance and time I will spend shopping there.

There'southward also the knowledge factor - in one case you know the raw materials used in the fragrance (not just the ones mentioned by make), you will discover them more hands.

What is your opinion of decants and splits?

There are 2 aspects of this matter:

If you are a true passionate, you lot will certainly agree that a perfume is a product  containing the fragrance, presented in its bottle, stored in its package. So to me, perfume is the whole bargain. I wish to take all three!

Now, some fragrances are too expensive to be bought without a previous try. Sometimes you can get samples, sometimes you don't. In this case, splits and decants are a good style of sampling before buying the whole bottle.

The other matter is how sterile your dissever and decant is? The contact of human skin, light and particles in the air may alter the fragrance, and then you lot are not really ownership a "pure" "sterile" perfume. As y'all know, even hand bottled perfumes are stored and processed in clean environments. Can you control, or even check where these decants and splits are being separated? Do you know if information technology is not done inside someone's bath? If yous can answer these questions, go for information technology.

So the reply is: I do have splits and decants, as well as official and non official samples. Simply I rather have the original fragrance, in the original bottle and package.

Where to store my fragrances?

Certainly not in your bathroom!

It is best to store them in a cool, dry, nighttime, clean place such every bit your wardrobe or a cabinet. Even better if you keep them within their packages. (see? 1 more than reason to have the original ane!)

But some of them became kinda dark and some accept an altered smell! What happened?

Probably information technology is considering you kept them in your bath, exposed to light and vapor of the hot showers you take! The brown-ish colour is due to light absorption.

For Brazil merely: Are "contratipos" illegal or fake fragrances?

NO! The Brazilian police describes a fake production when it is a copy of a fragrance, sold every bit if it was the original, leading consumers to error. That is 100% illegal.

Imported fragrances - If the fragrance has the ADIPEC seal, it has a guarantee that you lot are ownership a legal original fragrance. For more than data click HERE (in portuguese).

The seal

"Contratipos" are fragrances inspired by the original, sold with another name and different design concept, therefore it can't exist considered illegal by the law. Specially because fragrance to are not subjected by patents. The matter is, vendors practise say "this is just similar Carolina Herreira, just like Gabriela Sabatini, only cheaper!"  So basically "contratipos" are bought by people who cannot beget the original 1.  But they know what they are buying.

Are gourmet fragrances edible ones?

Now this is a question I am non willing to answer!!! This is so typical...y'all oasis't been reading my weblog, have you???

Promise I helped! If you have any other question...let me know!

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