Fragrances
What’s your fragrance personality?
August 26, 2019There are few product choices as deeply entwined in your identity, as a perfume is. I can barely be in a room with a sweet scent without feeling distinctly nauseous. I once had an office desk next to a Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb wearer and could barely keep my porridge down as she gave herself her morning spritz. While for her, that was her daily dose of luxury; nothing sickly about it - and countless others would agree, given that it’s one of the most successfully sold fragrances ever.
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But that’s why we wear perfumes. If we were all attracted to, and thus wore, the same types of scent, it would cancel out the point in wearing them. Quite often, our fragrance enters a room almost before we do, changing the mood of a space for those in it. I still suffer a childlike longing when I pass a woman wearing Givenchy’s Ysatis (what my mother wore when I was little); I feel it before I’m even conscious of why. So choosing a fragrance should be done carefully, with regard to who you are and how you want to be, erm, smelled.
As we move through life, our olfactory attractions morph to fit our personality and situation. As a teenager, I adored that iconic nineties aroma, Giorgio Beverley Hills with its sweet floral heart and musky vanilla base, gifted in a set with a branded teddy bear, by my first proper boyfriend. In my twenties, it was anything rosy and powdery; how edgy I felt, in my granny-scented raver’s wardrobe. While now, in my thirties, it’s zingy citrus notes, with a hint of masculinity, that capture me, possibly due to their resemblance to gin and tonic. My fragrance personality has sharpened up; just as I have.
But when’s the last time you thought about your fragrance personality?
Recognise anyone below?
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