Why do some perfumes stay but others don't?

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I've been using YSL Mon Paris for a year now but I've noticed it never stays on my skin. I love it though so I've persevered with it hoping that it was just me that couldn't smell it.
Last night, I found a bottle of Loewe Solo Ella which I haven't used for a little while. I used it when I went out and I can still smell it on myself today. I'm wearing different clothes so it must be on my skin.
Why does this happen? Is it me? Does anyone know of a similar fragrance to YSL Mon Paris that does stay on skin that I could try instead?

I don't know the answer to that, but I heard Naomi Campbell say that the best way to make the fragrance stay is to spritz it on your dry body after a shower and after that apply body lotion. Apparently that way it stays all day...

I have no idea but I recently tried a fragrance (Rehab) which I loved and which I could smell on my arm/ wrist for the rest of the day and still the following morning.

Convinced I was in love with it ( I am) I bought a bottle. The very first day I sprayed it, it lasted maybe two hours. Certainly couldnt smell it the next day. Could just about smell it on my clothes.

I don't think I've gone noseblind to it after one day, surely? Even my husband can barely smell it on me.

I'm going to try and layer it with Molecule01 which often turns other fragrances into beast mode on me when combined. Milton Lloyd do dupes of some popular fragrances and while they're not spot on, I've found combining them with the original does help boost longevity ( their Chanel Coco dupe dries down into a very good copy and I use it to blast up the original ( of which I only have a tiny bit left!)

So I don't have a huge amount of advice for you OP but it's really frustrating!

Have just checked and if you're interested, Milton Lloyd Love is the dupe you need, currently £6.99 on Amazon

You also get used to smells you're smelling all the time - if you've been using the same scent for a year, you just might not be noticing it but other people can smell it on you - then because you've swapped to a new scent you're noticing it more. You basically go nose blind to it after a while. I rotate my perfumes quite often because of this!

It's the same reason that you can't smell the smell of your own home. Your nose has adjusted to it. There's nothing to report, so it doesn't register.

Perfume is similar. If you wear the same one all the time, your nose adjusts and stops re-registering it.

However, it is true that perfume lasts longer on moisturised skin so start with a body lotion. I also spray cuffs, scarves and lapels. Also check the strength: EDT won't last as long as EDP. I wear different perfumes all the time so can usually smell them. When I wore the same one for twenty years, I couldn't smell it on me but others could.

Cross posted with @thunderstruckk !

You get nose blind to smells.