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Wearing Fragrance, page 2

Where, when and how to wear your perfume: trail, lasting power, skin and clothes.

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jess.in.phillyin Wearing Fragrance · Philadelphia · October 1, 2026

Question

How much scent at a front desk all day?

I work the front desk at a dental office, so people stand right next to me all day. Right now it's two sprays of a soft musky scent on my neck before I leave home, and by ten I can't smell it at all. Is two too much for a small waiting room? Too little? I…

Musk

big_dan_vetiver Three of us share a portacabin office at the warehouse. One spray on my chest, under the shirt, and nobody's ever said a word either way.

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ingrid_berlinin Wearing Fragrance · Berlin · October 1, 2026

Tip

Behind the ears does not work with headphones

Behind the ears is a classic spot, but I wear closed headphones since fifteen years and the pads sit right on it. By evening the cushions smell of orris and my skin of nothing. Now I spray the base of the neck instead. /Ingrid

Orris

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nnamdi.vetiverin Wearing Fragrance · Nottingham · September 30, 2026

Question

Antique American dressing table in dark wood with turned legs, on a grey background

Vetiver gone by lunch for me, not my mate

Two sprays of vetiver before work and by lunch I can't smell a thing on me. My mate at the next bay says I still smell of it when we clock off. Who's right?

Vetiver

frankie.incense Wikipedia's page on olfactory fatigue, also called noseblindness uses the restaurant example, the food smell that fades for you a while after you…

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bev.bostonin Wearing Fragrance · Boston · September 30, 2026

Memory

Common carder bee clinging to a lavender spike, slender stems on a golden background

His aftershave still lives in the cardigan

I keep my late husband's gray cardigan on the bedroom chair. When the heat kicks on in the fall, lavender and something like fresh hay still come out of the wool. What is that hay smell, does anyone know?

Lavender Coumarin

dougie_newcastle That'll be a fougère, pet. Lavender up top, and the hay is most likely coumarin, the new-mown hay note .

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callum.peatin Wearing Fragrance · Glasgow · September 30, 2026

Scent diary

Antique perfume bottle shaped like a jewelled bust in a museum display case

Heater on in the bus cab, birch too loud

Heater's on in the cab now the mornings are cold, and my birch scent, fine at the stop, fills the whole cab by the second run. It sits in the leather family , apparently, and in a small warm box it smells like it. Is it the heat or just me?

Birch tar

hamish_heather Same in the shop when the heating's up: every bottle on the shelf gets louder and you loose the wee quiet ones.

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dougie_newcastlein Wearing Fragrance · Newcastle upon Tyne · September 30, 2026

Question

Cologne, aftershave or eau de toilette?

The wife signed me up, so here's my first daft question. I've called every bottle I own 'cologne' since the shipyard days. Is cologne a strength, a men's thing, or just a word?

Bergamot

frankie.incense Fun fact: Wikipedia's article on eau de Cologne and where the name comes from says Giovanni Maria Farina created it in Cologne in 1709, a light…

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priya.cardamomin Wearing Fragrance · Toronto · September 29, 2026

Exercise

Thread of the week: one scent, three places

Thread of the week: where does your fragrance last longest? Take one scent you know well and try this tomorrow. 1) One spray on your inner wrist. 2) One spray on a scarf or a sleeve. 3) One spray on a strip of paper (a coffee filter cut into strips works)…

Vetiver Yuzu Musk Neroli

joon.yuzu Scarf wins by a mile. - wrist: yuzu gone by lunch - strip: faint, basically just the woody base by evening - scarf: still there at bedtime

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mags.lavenderin Wearing Fragrance · Norwich · September 28, 2026

Tip

English silver vinaigrette chased with flowers, a small scent box

All my bottles moved out of the bathroom

Morning all, Spent a rainy Saturday moving every bottle off the bathroom windowsill and into the chest of drawers in the spare room. In Mademoiselle Bulle's piece on small bathrooms, the writer keeps her perfume in a bedroom drawer rather than on the bathroom…

Lavender Vetiver

frankie.incense The Osmothèque in Versailles keeps its perfume collection in a dark cellar at a constant 12°C under a layer of argon . [Your spare room is halfway to…

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