Even if you don’t necessarily want a ‘beast mode’ fragrance that will last all day and all night long, most people still want a fragrance that will last the majority of their day.
Sometimes you feel like your fragrance has disappeared completely, and yet the people around you are commenting on how nice you smell.
There’s some interesting science behind why this happens. Essentially, your brain will get used to aromas that you are around for a certain length of time. Once your brain categorizes that smell, you can’t smell it anymore and your senses are looking for the next aroma. Of course, there’s more to it than this, but this encompasses that idea.
For example, when you’re in a place that smells awful, eventually you get used to it and you can’t smell it anymore. Or, you’re so used to the way that your home smells, that you might notice some new smells, or worst case notice some more unpleasant aromas, once you’ve been away from your home for a while and come back.
If you’re used to wearing the same fragrances all the time, eventually they won’t be as easy for you to perceive.
A great example of this is, you might pull out a shirt that you haven’t worn in a couple of weeks, and once you put it on, you know exactly what fragrance you were wearing for the day the last time you wore that shirt.
Now, there’s an experiment you can do to see if your fragrances are really disappearing, or if you just can’t smell yourself anymore.
When you put your fragrance on for the day, add a couple of spritzes to your wrist or forearm. Throughout the day, maybe every 30 minutes to an hour, give your arm a sniff. In most cases, you will still be able to smell your fragrance on you for the majority of the day, even if you ‘can’t smell it’.
Most fragrances are going to dry down and become warmer on the skin. Fresher notes, like fruits and citruses, are meant to fade away faster, and the warmer notes, like woods, spices, resins, Ambers, and Vanilla’s, are meant to last the longest. Most each and every fragrance will become more warm and intimate the longer they’re on your skin. Most fragrances aren’t going to be ‘beast mode’ fragrances to where they create a kind of cloud around you all day.
Even fragrances that are more pure and definitively longer lasting, aren’t the kind of scents that people will smell on you from half a block away.
If your fragrance really isn’t lasting on you, you can find a higher strength, which will have a higher oil content and will last longer. You can layer with body products, or even another fragrance, to give your scent a boost. You can even simply reapply your fragrance.
So, is your fragrance really disappearing on you, or can you just not smell it? Try this test out and see how long it’s really lasting before you decide.
