Choosing a perfume
that suits your personality
Choosing a perfume is like finding the most flattering hairstyle for your
face shape. It should suit your personality very well. If you have only
purchased a perfume for yourself because someone else liked it, then you may
not be aware of your perfume personality. If you are like some women, you may
be able to find that one fantastic scent known as your “signature scent”.
We choose perfume
based on memory
We often like a perfume because of an emotional or
sensory tie that reminds of us something we love , so it's important to look
for a perfume with notes that align with places and activities we enjoy.
Choosing a fragrance with reminiscent qualities and ingredients will lift your
spirit each time you wear it!
Finding a fragrance
that fits you can be difficult.
There are five major categories of perfumes:
1) Woody
2) Green
3) Floral
4) Fruity
5) Oriental
Each has specific notes and evokes different places
and feelings – you're sure to find one or two categories that call out to you.
Arm yourself with this info before you go perfume shopping and you'll know the
key things to look for, narrow your search and find the best scent to enhance
your personality.
WOODY
Woody scents are full of earthy, warm, wintery smells. Free spirited and
self-assured, the wearer of woody fragrances knows what she wants and usually
gets it. These perfumes, with their woody middle note, are warm and opulent
when focused on sandalwood or patchouli. They often contain a dash of citrus or
aromatic notes.
Woody perfumes particularly touch nature lovers - Do you like hikes and
the smells of the great outdoors? Do you like sitting by the fire and autumnal
scents of leaves and bark? You might like woody scents!
-Key woody notes to look for on the bottle: sandalwood, patchouli,
vetiver, oak, Gaiac wood, and cedar.
GREEN
Green fragrances are fresh, sporty, casual scents. The green
family became very fashionable in the mid-20th century. Many fragrances termed
"green" derive from galbanum, a natural ingredient that evokes
freshly cut grass. The green note is synonymous with naturalness, freshness,
and youth.
Are you typically a relaxed person? Love the beach and a good
run? Don't like your scent to overpower you? You might like green scents!
-Key green notes to look for on the bottle: galbanum, violet
leaves, petit grain, hyacinth, rhubarb, and ivy leaves.
FLORAL
Do you love classic movies, beautifully tailored clothes, and
delicate feminine make-up? You might like floral scents!
What does it mean if your perfume personality is Floral? You're
always the centre of attention-and you wouldn't have it any other way.
Flirtatious, vivacious, and playful, you're sweet but confident at the same
time. Your little secret: you're a hopeless romantic. If your perfume
personality is Floral you're an unmistakeable girly-girl--and you're not afraid
to show it. So spritz your pretty self with one of the fabulously feminine
flowery fragrances and get out there...because the party can't start without
you!
Bold blooms like roses, peonies, jasmine, orchid or freesia can
each take a starring role. Or they can be blended together with each other and
with other flowery notes for a myriad of different creative combinations. This
is not your
great-granny's powdery floral perfume. Today's florals are as bright and lively as
the modern girls who wear them. Perfumers can warm up florals with sultry
smooth hints of vanilla and moist amber. Spices might slink seductively through
the base notes.
Even more wildly popular are the fruity florals, these attention
grabbing floral notes layered with ripe berries, blushing plums, juicy
apricots, or sugary sweet lychee for a perfume that's anything but a shrinking violet.
-Key floral notes to look for on the bottle: rose, jasmine, lily
of the valley, violet, peony, tuberose, magnolia, lilacs, and ylang-ylang.
FRUITY
Fruity fragrances are fresh, citrusy and sometimes a little
spicy. Fruity notes in fragrances are very popular now, they convey modernity
and originality and bring a mouth-watering effect to fragrances.
Do you have an energetic, youthful spirit? Love the smell of
fresh fruit in the summertime? You might like fruity scents!
Key fruity notes to look for on the bottle: apple, cherry, red
currant, raspberry, apricot, peach, and melon.
ORIENTAL
If your perfume personality is Oriental, you are truly
one-of-a-kind, bold, sophisticated, and in control. You're mysterious and don't
let people get to know you too quickly. Maybe you even have a bit of a
dangerous daredevil side. If you're a passionate dreamer, than Oriental
fragrances are definitely your perfume personality--let a spritz of one of
these exotic scents whisk you away to faraway forgotten lands
Oriental fragrances are rich, sensual, exotic, knockout scents.
Orientals, also known as 'amber' fragrances, stand out because of their unique
blend of warmth and sensuality. They draw their richness from heady ingredients
and tend to be opulent and bewitching.Do you love dressing up and turning
heads? Love flirting and performing? You might like oriental scents!
Key oriental notes to look for on the bottle: amber, vanilla,
musk, precious woods, exotic flowers, spices like cardamom, ginger, cinnamon,
clove, and animal notes.
Oriental perfumes are made of everything that's warm, sensual,
and opulent: gleaming amber notes and ancient spices like cinammon, nutmeg, and
clove. These are laced with ethereal wisps of incense or drizzled with soft
musk.
