There are two sure-fire ways to get your perfume to last longer throughout the day: reapplication and layering. For perfumes lacking lasting power and silage, you could simply spray more perfume, more frequently. To do this, you would need to either lug around the original bottle or invest in a miniature version of your perfume. Another common way to maximize the lasting power of your perfume is to layer it with the body lotion of that same fragrance. Just beware that some body lotions smell slightly different than the original perfume. But if you don't want to reapply your perfume frequently, you might be willing to entertain a slight change in your fragrance just to get it to last throughout the day.
Also, you can help extend your perfume's life by taking care to apply it directly onto specific spots. By focusing on certain pressure points, as opposed to generally spraying all over your body or walking into a cloud of perfume, you can extend the effects of your fragrance. These pressure points--including your inner wrists, neck, chest, behind your ears--warm up your perfume. When a perfume is warmed the fragrance will extend farther and diffuse more easily. Besides applying perfume on your bare skin, you could also apply perfume onto your clothes, and for girls with longer hair, you could mist it into your hair. Applying perfume on your clothes and hair could actually make the perfume last longer depending on the actual perfume. Some perfumes last longer on anything but your skin. Other perfumes are quite the opposite. The only way to know for sure is to experiment.
How do you know if a perfume will have great lasting power? First, you could check out the literature on your perfume. Often, perfumes with great silage are openly advertised as such. Secondly you could cruise perfume forums and perfume blogs for reviews. Perfume reviews often describe how long a perfume can last, sometimes down to the exact number of hours.
Short of reading reviews, you could test-drive the perfume yourself. Spray some perfume onto your wrists and rub your wrists together. Sales assistants typically cringe at the sight of perfumed wrists rubbing, and tend to mention something about bruising and essentially ruining the perfume molecules. But little do you have to worry. When you rub your perfume you will not destroy the fragrance. You will do a few things, however. By rubbing and prematurely warming the perfume, you will get a sense of how the perfume would smell on your skin after it's been sitting there for awhile. You essentially skip the top notes, go straight to the middle and base notes, and get a feel for how the perfume mixes with your body's natural smell.
When doing this, if you find a perfume with great silage, you have nothing to worry about. Just spray and go--your perfume will most likely last the whole day without any extra effort. Perfumes with poor lasting power will almost instantly melt away in this experiment. One spray, one rub and the scent has disappeared. If you love that fragrance, you have no choice but to use these tricks to get your perfume to last longer.
Chris is a perfume aficionado, and as such he commonly reviews perfumes from all over the world. He currently works as a tester at Overnight Perfume, a Cheap Perfumes online store.
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