How do you make perfume stick?

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What do you spray it on to?

if I’m wearing a scarf I’ll spray it on to that. If not I’ll spray it on to my top layer of clothing.

But I never feel like I have that waft of smell I get when I walk past others in public… If you know what I mean?

Where has the best sticking power? Is it directly on to the skin?

Would wearing a mask when in public (trains / lifts etc) help the people who are affected to the point of migraine? It seems more sensible to take the precautions you can be in control of than expecting other people not to use perfume?

I love getting a nice waft of perfume or aftershave from someone when they walk by. Its a rare one that I hate

You really can't smell your own perfume after an hour or so.

I like getting wafts of f perfume too but I bought a 3 pack of Superdrug artisan atelier scents. They were so strong that I felt car sick for some reason. Only a dab on each wrist. It lasted SO long 😱
And as I said, I like perfume smells generally and lynx but that makes me seem odd.

perfume is a huge migraine trigger for me and many other people. I really don't want people to leave a waft of perfume behind when they walk. If you want to wear perfume please be considerate and spray it such that it can only be smelt by people up close to you.
I am happy to choose not to get close to people wearing perfume but I can't avoid the wafts of perfume that can linger for up to five minutes in a room from someone wearing way too much.

I already spend at least a month of every year with a migraine (if you add up the number of days). I don't see why we have to be excused of being miserable if we won't want to smell other peoples perfume.
Wearing a mask doesn't work by the way. The smell just sticks on the mask and is just as bad. It certainly wouldn't be sufficient if sat next to someone for a couple of hours in the cinema wearing too much perfume. It's not just trains and lifts either. It's the work place, shops, basically everywhere.

I think the point of it is for your nearest and dearest to associate you with a lovely scent when hugging, kissing etc. Not for Joe Bloggs sitting 10 metres away from you in the office to have to smell your scent all day.

Well, I'm not going to avoid wearing perfume for that reason, sorry.

Perhaps you are using Eau de Toilette. This is very weak and only designed to last a couple of hours.
Eau de Parfum or Parfum de toilette are better lasting. They cost more but to be frank, unless you want something for a lunch or dinner and no longer, I don't see the point of eau de toilette.
Parfum is the strongest concentration.

That car sick feeling is most commonly associated with cheap synthetic fragrances. Any fragrance has the capacity to cause problems but synthetic fragrances are the worst for nausea.

Well I'm not surprised. It's pretty clear from most human behaviour that as a species we are generally inconsiderate of others.

I wasn't asking people not to wear perfume at all though, just less of it.

If you had to factor in everyone else's wishes and wants you'd never do anything.

Why are perfume threads being hijacker’s by people who don’t like perfume?! How odd.

If you have an evidenced medical reason for needing to avoid perfume at work and need a reasonable adjustment made, you should speak to your employer about that.

Otherwise, in public places like shops, buses, walking down the street etc, you’re going to have to deal with other people’s perfectly reasonable choices.

If your aim is to smell nice to people around you, then don’t dowse yourself in perfume.

If you don’t care, then go ahead!

Personally, I enjoy perfume but I don’t see the point of offending people around me. So I keep it subtle. One or two sprays of something classy.

What’s the absolute worst is a heavy cloud of perfume which despite being suffocating fails to mask the smell of an unwashed body 🤢 I’ve been stuck in elevators with people like this and it’s horrible.

It's not all about you dear

I have read that you become nose blind to your own perfume within a very short number of minutes but not to others people's so that is why you get a perfume cloud from people when they go passed.

@Thereislightattheendofthetunnel
• Darker skin tones tend to retain fragrance better.

this is not correct. Oily skins retain better than dry skins. Black skins tend towards dry so do not retain fragrance better unless they happen to also be oily

• Your nose is only able to smell the fragrance you wear for around 20min. After this time you no longer perceive it but other people will.

It depends. Sometime the wearer can detect their fragrance all day

• Apply to areas that have pulse, as they beat and warm up the smell will disperse longer (wrist, back of the knees and arms, neck…).

Pulse heating has zero impact on scent dispersal. It is the heat that increases scent dispersal. All arteries have a pulse. The pulse points referred to for perfume are simply areas where the vessels are close to the surface. Hence they are areas of warmth.

• Spray in the air and walk underneath so that it sticks to your hair. When your hair moves it will release the fragrance. A good idea is to have the hair mist of the matching fragrance. Do not over do it as alcohol will dry out hair.

Hair mist won't dry out hair. Actual hair mist/perfume should be formulated without alcohol

Just like cigarette smoke huh?

Yes or vaping which stinks IMO but I don't cringe past them in a huff.

why do you need to understand this? Why don’t you start your own thread to question that and maybe stick to answering the OP’s question instead of ‘trying’ to be smart assed and bitchy. It’s so overdone on here these days, I don’t actually understand why you want to inflict your crappy comment on everyone else. I’d rather smell someone’s perfume than their bullshit.

I’d rather smell someone’s perfume than their bullshit

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IFRA has extremely strict guidelines on toxins in perfume. Many perfumes have been completely reformulated over recent years so they abide by these rules. Perfume just isn’t toxic in the same way as smoking, and it’s ridiculous to compare the two.

I wish all the migraine sufferers and ‘allergic’ people would start their own threads, rather than hijack perfume threads.

I love perfume but definitely struggle to get it to stick to me. Thanks for the tips on the thread. Any recommendations for a nice woody/musky, long lasting fragrance?

I find its definitely better when I use the matching body lotion.
Bet all these people lecturing you are quite happy to chug around in their cars chucking out diesel/petrol fumes

@journeyofinsanity

Ins’t it funny when someone has to have the last word despite someone saying exactly the same?

Honestly you should make an effort when reading and realise that your explanation does not add anything new to mine. Except for your pedantic connotations.

Disagree, and also, this is why there are a variety of perfumes with different sillage and projection. Perfume, like clothing, can be a signature, so yes, a lot of them are designed so that you can fill the space (a room, a night club, etc) around you, not just so someone who sniffs oyur wrist can smell you. It's a very narrow view to think there is only one purpose to wearing a scent. I wear my perfume so that Joe Bloggs passing me on the street smells me, and so does Jane Bloggs walking into my room at work.