Sense about your Skin Scents

Fragrance and skin are perfect companions. They both belong together. In fact, they need one another. Separated, each can get along, but united, they're nothing short of eloquent. Perfume applied directly to the skin, particularly after a bath or shower, can heighten your mood, make you feel sexier, more feminine, more confident.

What part of the body reacts best to perfume? It's still the pulse spots, those famous areas where perfumes meets up with natural body warmth behind the ears, the inside of the wrists, in the crook of the arms at the temples, at the base of the throat, behind the knees. Wherever your pulse throbs, there the heat of your body will help accentuate the fragrance you wear.

Certain skins and certain types of fragrance get along famously. An oily skin behaves superbly with fragrance. Invariably, it heightens the scent, shelters it, helps it last far longer than you might expect.

A dry skin doesn't hold on to fragrance as well; it needs a perfume with cling power, such as a concentrated bath oil. The oil stays on the skin and helps the fragrance last. If you have dry skin and prefer fragrance forms other than bath oil, make up your mind to use more and re apply more often.

Give perfume a few minutes to "bloom" on your skin once you've applied it. After a while, the alcohol evaporates and the scent blends with your own skin oils. Which is a very good reason you should never use one perfume on top of another. You'll get some strange results.

Give some thought to the season when you're applying a scent. Use more in winter because fragrance doesn't have the staying power it has on a hot summer's day. Heat always brings out a scent. Thus, if you're going to be in a warm room crowded with people, be sparing, especially if you've chosen a heady, heavy scent. If you'll be outdoors, you can use lots more. The breeze is bound to carry off some of it.

Bath time is a good time for skin scenting. Silky bath oils, after bath lotions and sprays all cling to warm damp skin and perform their best. If you take showers rather than baths, try the perfume oil concentrates made to spray on the body before and after showering.

Perfumes today are thinking more than ever of long lasting qualities. The new scents usually have complex undernotes to give a longer lasting body to the top note, however light it may be. This means you can revise your thinking about certain fragrances. Florals, once thought of as light and airy, not as lasting as fruit or Oriental scents, are still light and airy but they last and last.

Here's a skin scent timetable: The experts say perfume applied to skin lasts five to six hours before you need to re apply; toilet water, three to four hours; cologne, two to three hours; splash cologne, two hours; cream perfume, three to four hours; perfumed bath oil, five to six hours.