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The One Perfume Mistake We ALL Make!

23 August, 2020 - 12:44pm by - First Lady | 19 Comments

by BR Amelia

You'd think when it came to the very basics of beauty, we'd know what we were doing.  But then, every now and then we come across a piece of information and think "How did we NOT know this?!"

Case in point.

Do you spritz your perfume onto your wrist and then rub both wrists together?  Yes?  Well...

YOU SHOULDN'T!

Turns out the act of rubbing kick starts the evaporation process which means the fragrance won't last as long as it could!  What you need to do is simple, so lets unlearn that old wrist rubbing habit and apply our fragrance like this:

Spritz on to each wrist, the chest and the BACK of the neck and leave to dry.


Other than less evaporation using this method, you'll also create sillage by spritzing onto the back of the neck.  Sillage is essentially the scent left behind in a room, a perfume memory if you will.

And one final tip - be sure to use an unscented body lotion daily to ensure beautifully moisturised skin.  Dry skin absorbs the water from the fragrance, meaning once again it will evaporate faster and the scent won't last as long!

There we go - the correct way to apply your fragrance.  So tell us, have you been doing it wrong all along?  Have we convinced you to apply it this way instead? 

Get chatting below!

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24th August, 2020

Well how interesting! I always put 2 sprays on my neck. I always use wrists when trying one on though :) Very interesting about the dry skin too

24th August, 2020

Guilty as charged. Probably take years to unlearn that bad habit but will start tomorrow. That spritz on the back of the neck is different though havent heard of that before.

24th August, 2020

Yes, I didn't know any other way! How did we learn this in the first place? I'm wondering, is it from an old beauty scene from the movies, advertising, or just an instinctive act to rub onto ones other wrist?

24th August, 2020

yep... being doing it wrong, only on the wrists though. I do just spray to the back of the next/chest and leave it :)

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