Need Expert Advice if you Sell Perfume/Aftershave/Electrical Beauty

[jodee]

I've started working in Boots (temping until New Year) on the Fragrance & Electrical Beauty section and it would be great if I could give advice to customers when they ask about which perfume to buy/best hair straighteners without having to keep calling the consultants over.

Can anyone give me a rundown on the "in" stuff for different age groups; or if a customer is, for example, looking for something with "fruity" or "woody" tones, what to recommend to them?

Any advice in this area would be great, thanks!

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boring, I know, but I'm bumping this again!

have a look on some beauty websites for ideas. handbag.com maybe or magazines like Cosmo, Eve etc.
can i be rude and ask how much do they pay/h. don't answer please if you feel i'm intruding

i personally divide perfumes in fresh and richly scented.
fresh is anything like Arden's Green Tea, Rosellini's manifesto, Armani's Aqua di gio, heavy like YSL's Opium.
The inbetweeny I'd call them trendy or unusual to make them sell (like Myakey - still can't spell that!, DKNY)

ah, have a look at the boots website and see if they give any description to individual perfumes and say that

forgot to mention i'mnot actually an expert. you'll get the nahg of it sooner than you expect (unless you have a blocked nose ) just by trying them out on your lunch break. gotta go now...

jodee, I'll have a flick through my mag archive as that guy who was the "nose" at Guerlain for many years (Roja Dove, or something Tyler Brulee-ish like that) often contributes to seasonal articles on perfume selection according to personality type/"note" preference etc.
Will not be able to help with teen market apart from Anais Anais still seems to be going strong...
Hope the new job is going well.

classic and clean- chanel number 5

Thanks for the advice, ladies. Branster, I'm doing temporary work until Christmas and on £5.49 p/hr (I'm in Dorset, this may vary). Permanent staff may be on a different rate. Had a look at Boots.com and they give a breakdown of the different types (woody, floral) but not the actual scents.

Marina, that would be great if you could have a nose through your mags, thanks. Had to cut back on my magazine consumption this year, unfortunately. (I was given a magazine sub as a pressie last Christmas, perhaps I should have gone for Cosmo instead of BBC Good Food!)

Coddy, that is a classic, can't go wrong there!

young trendy perfumes seem to be things like DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger, Anna Sui (all the clothes designers) and maybe Paco Rabanne, then the classics would be things like Chanel, YSL, Givenchy, Gucci (although Rush 2 is quite "young". Presumably you're not selling Dior/Clinique/other beauty houses fragrances as they would sell them themselves?

Thanks Jampot. Must try Rush, had never heard of it until this week! it's not a big store, so I think it's only Clinque/Clarins (maybe Estee Lauder?) who have their own salespeople.