Ladies who smell good: how do you do it?

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About 5% of people smell amazing! And they know they do! If this is you, how do you do it?

Soap, lotion, perfume all in the same scent. But honestly, you’re wearing too much if they’re getting more than a whiff.

Good personal hygiene, clothes made of natural fibres, and a high quality scent on wrists and neck.

I don’t know if I do smell good, but I try very hard to smell nice as I’m very sensitive to smell and hate bad odours around me. Shower daily, sometimes twice daily. Tops washed after 1 wear and always use fabric conditioner and dry outside unless it’s deep winter. Deodorant twice a day, perfume top up time I go to the toilet. It gets expensive but I love fragrance.

Full body and hair wash every day, cotton or other natural fibre clothes, clothes dried outside. I am sensitive to odours so don't use much fabric conditioner, or strong detergent. I do like perfume, but wear lighter scents like the Hermes Jardin series, I also put a tiny spray on my hair.

Daily showers, always clean clothes washed with non-bio washing pods and white comfort fabric softener, Chanel chance perfume, Wild deodorant. To be honest, I get the most compliments when I’ve taken some of my daughters Sol de Janeiro spray 😂.

I cannot stand smelling other people’s perfume 🤢

Someone at my gym uses all these elements in the Clarins range. The changing room smells amazing when she’s been in there!

OP, do you mean smell clean or smell of perfume or have no ‘smell’?

Not sure I understand, so may ways to interpret this and what you mean by “amazing”

Cleanliness and nice products.

Me too. I prefer people not to smell.

Can’t stand ‘product’ smells on men or women.

Clean body and hair, clean clothes and a light spritz of perfume.

Clean hair is a massive factor. Full soaking bath at least once a week alongside regular showers. Body lotion applied immediately after showering/bath. Aluminium free deodorant before you go to bed and when you get up. Clean teeth. Using mints after drinking coffee or tea (both of which smell really strongly on people's breath) if you can't brush your teeth. Clean clothes (fabric really holds smells).

I shower and wash my hair every day. Clean hair is the easiest way to smell nice. I use body lotion and a tiny bit of fragrance, but not very much. The key is they, and my shampoo, and any other scented products I use, whilst not from the same range are all in the same fragrance group, so all citrus smells, meaning they blend well together.

Yes, I meant more “what perfume are you all wearing?”

Only use a clean smelling washing powder (no fabric conditioner). Ditto unperfumed soap for me (no shower gel) and antiperspirant. I dont think it's helpful to have too many scents overlapping and competing.

I wear the same perfume every day. Applied only in the morning, it has time to disperse before I meet anyone, so hopefully not overpowering. Just enough so that if youre stood next to me, you'd notice.

I had someone stop me in a shop last week to say I smelled amazing. It was my hair. I use a coconut spray lotion to tame my frizz!. It's called Coco loco, from boots. I've had lots of comments come to think of it.

Love coconut smell

I have loads of expensive perfumes but the one that gets me the most compliments, multiple a day, is Zara Red Temptation Winter - £24

One of my work colleagues commented on how good I smell. I was a little taken aback but she said it was because I had an underlying fresh smell with the smell of my perfume on top.
When I work I wear scrubs type uniform always freshly laundered at an high temperature and shower before work. No fancy toiletries just Pears Green or blue soap. A neutral deodorant and a quick squirt of perfume.

I don’t use any body sprays or layer my perfume. I think it’s more down to less is more. Lots of layered products probably overload the nose. Removing underlying stale smells, clothes that have been worn several times or in smoky environment often dominate. Also washing clothes on a higher temperature is better for removing odour. My DS had scabies last year so we were forced to wash everything at 60 degrees, the difference was very noticeable and to prevent reinfection of the household I’ve continued to wash at a higher temperature.

I also use a lot of fragrance free products due to allergies so I don’t have too many conflicting smells. It’s easy to get carried away.

Choice of perfume is important, what smells lovely on someone else can smell of cat pee on yourself. Just because it’s the latest craze doesn’t mean you should use it. My DSis and I use a lot of the same perfumes because we have very similar body chemistry. When choosing a new one we often test it on each other. My DN raved about a perfume I was wearing only to realise she used it as well but since you often can’t smell a perfume that suits you on yourself you don’t always realise how it smells she hadn’t realised how nice it was.