Club circle
Where, when and how to wear your perfume: trail, lasting power, skin and clothes.
The Wearing Fragrance circle is about gestures: where to spray, how often, on skin, hair or a scarf, and why you end up no longer smelling your own perfume. Members compare their habits, ask about lasting power and trail, and share what they notice over the course of a day. The Classes on how to wear fragrance and fragrance concentrations give the explanations. A skin reaction is a question for a doctor or a pharmacist.
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beatriz.londonin Wearing Fragrance · London ·
TipSmall tip from my grandmother in Porto: one spray of lemon and lavender on the hairbrush, not on the hair, then brush. The Class on wearing fragrance on skin, clothes and hair says the alcohol can dry your hair if you spray it every day, so the brush is…
callum.peatin Wearing Fragrance · Glasgow ·
Question
My birch scent is a running joke at home, and now my partner has asked if I could soften it for her sister's wedding. Can you layer something lighter over a smoky birch scent, or does it all turn to mud?
ingrid_berlin Put the quiet one underneath, not on top. A musk or a soft wood as the bass, then less birch over it.
joon.yuzuin Wearing Fragrance · Seattle ·
TipTL;DR: small refillable atomizer, in a zip bag, in the carry-on. Flying to my sister's for the holidays, so the packing list has started early. What I've tested so far: - full bottle in checked luggage: wrapped in a sock, survived, but I worried the whole…
priya.cardamom Moved this over from Learning to Smell, it fits better here. My three rules: 1) decant only what you'll wear 2) don't fill it to the brim 3) keep it…
imogen.magnoliain Wearing Fragrance · Cambridge ·
QuestionTold off at choir practice for rubbing my wrists together after spraying my magnolia scent. The soprano next to me says rubbing 'bruises' the perfume: real thing, or just choir gossip?
ingrid_berlin Not bruising. More like turning the treble up and then cutting it early: the warmth sends the top notes off first, the rest plays on.
ambrose_leatherin Wearing Fragrance · Northampton ·
Scent diary
Right then. The wool overcoat came out of the wardrobe at the weekend, first properly cold morning. On Monday I put one spray of my tobacco scent on the underside of the collar, and nothing since. It's Friday and the collar still smells of it, warm, a bit…
callum.peat Same with my scarf. Birch on wool lasts days, on me it's gone by the end of a shift.
harriet.hayin Wearing Fragrance · Bristol ·
ReadingRead the club's Class on how to wear fragrance, from where to spray to why you stop smelling it with a cup of tea at the garden centre, between the pumpkins and the bulb displays. The bit that caught me was topping up: I'd been adding a spray of lavender at…
ambrose_leather Right then. Dropped: the second spray on the cuffs. Keeping: the collar, whatever anyone says. I should have read it sooner. Cheers, Ambrose
ingrid_berlinin Wearing Fragrance · Berlin ·
Scent diary
I wear orris at the studio since two years and no colleague has ever said a word. Good. I want it like room tone: there only if you stop and listen. Who else wears scent mostly for themselves? /Ingrid
jess.in.philly Me, with musk. Though some days I wonder if I can even smell it, or if I'm just remembering it.
big_dan_vetiverin Wearing Fragrance · Leeds ·
QuestionLong shift moving pallets, and the warehouse heating's on full now it's turned cold. By the end I'm sweaty and my morning vetiver smells sour on me. Do I just spray more over it before I drive home, or is that daft?
hamish_heather Aye, a long shift does that to anyone. Spray over it and you'll just loose the vetiver under the sour, ken.
ollie.grapefruitin Wearing Fragrance · Manchester ·
DiscoveryOur kid wears the eau de toilette of a grapefruit and pepper scent. In town I tried the eau de parfum with the same name on a tester strip and it wasn't just stronger: the grapefruit was quieter and there was something woody underneath I never get from his.…
ingrid_berlin Not imagined. A different mix, not only a louder volume knob.
tallulah.teain Wearing Fragrance · Brighton ·
QuestionMy hand cream has the little open-jar symbol with 12M on it, but the box of my fig and tea perfume has nothing. Does perfume just never go off?
mags.lavender This explainer on cosmetics shelf life, perfume section included says the alcohol base usually keeps perfume stable, hence no symbol, but it can…
aunty_valin Wearing Fragrance · Liverpool ·
QuestionSince the cold weather came in, my neck goes red and itchy where I spray my rose and powder perfume. Should I put it somewhere else, love, or rub some cream on first?
harriet.hay A red, itchy neck needs someone who can look at it, so your GP or a pharmacist first, before anyone here guesses.
nell.wattlein Wearing Fragrance · Melbourne ·
Snapshot
Okay, nerd moment: while you lot are getting the scarves out, we're going the other way. The wattle has actually finished, the jasmine on the back fence is starting and the arvo sun has real warmth in it. My winter woody scent suddenly feels like a wool…
joon.yuzuin Wearing Fragrance · Seattle ·
Reading
TL;DR: it's the molecules, not my skin. Read Wikipedia's page on top, middle and base notes last night. It ranks materials on an evaporation scale: 1 to 14 for top notes such as citrus and ginger, 61 to 100 for base notes. Base notes are usually noticed about…
jess.in.philly This is my clean-laundry musk exactly. I thought I was imagining it on my scarf the next day.
sinead.smokein Wearing Fragrance · Limerick ·
Question
I wear a birch tar and leather scent behind the bar most nights. A regular who loves his whiskey says it gets in the way when he's nosing a glass. Fair point, or is he being precious?
hamish_heather Fair point. In the shop we wear nothing at all, folk come in to nose and a wee bit of birch on the staff would muddle every dram.
hana.neroliin Wearing Fragrance · Vancouver ·
Memory
My aunt hosts small tea gatherings every autumn and asks guests to come unscented, so the roasted tea and the wet garden are all you smell. I used to find it strict. Now I think it's the kindest rule I know.
juniper_jules Same when we open the wood-fired kiln, nobody wants perfume over that first breath of hot clay.
ambrose_leatherin Wearing Fragrance · Northampton ·
Memory
Right then. My mother had a rule for my father's Sunday best: his scent should only be noticed when you shook his hand, never from across the chapel. One dab of cologne inside the collar and that was him done. I kept to it through forty years at the factory…