Beauty Tips - Choosing Your Perfume

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Choosing a perfume to wear can be a fun experience that includes a trip to the mall or department store to "try on" a few different types of perfumes in order to get the best one for your body. You will want to select a scent that matches your personality and that is a pleasurable scent to you. For instance if you are a big guy a sent with a subtle sent should work, because a strong smelling scent will give you a more feminine touch. If you decide first which kind of scent you are interested in, you can test a few aromas from within that category to decide which specific perfume to purchase.

Floral Perfumes

Do you like taking the time to smell the flowers? If so, you would probably like to wear perfume that has a floral fragrance. You can select from many floral scents, including lavendar, sunflowers and roses. Floral aroma perfumes are among some of the oldest types, but people of all ages can wear the floral perfumes.

Earthy Perfumes

Think of the smell when you open a cedar chest. There are perfumes that mimic the woody fragrances for natural perfumes. many mature women prefer earthy scents over floral or sweet smelling perfumes. Earthy scents, like sandalwood and cedar are best worn at night and during the fall and winter.

In addition to the wood-themed scents, there are also perfumes that will have you thinking about fresh cut grass, rainforests and oriental "flavors". These are most often worn by the younger crowd, or the athletic women as they are a bit more contemporary.

Fruit Perfumes

Many younger ladies prefer to wear fruity-smelling perfumes. They tend to have a bit of a spicy aroma, but are almost crisp in their aromas. Fall and winter months are perfect for things like cider, apple and champagne aromas.

Once you've decided on the type of perfume that suits you best, whether it be floral, fruit or earthy aroma perfumes, then you can look at perfumes that fall within the specific category. It's best to go to a department store that allows you to spray or dab on a few different scents because perfumes will smell differently depending on who wears them. The scents actually interact with your natural smell; and will influence how the perfume smells once you put it on. So if you and your best friend go perfume shopping together, and wear the same perfume- it aroma it gives off once applied to your skin will be different on each of you!

Scent is not really a gender thing, almost all men and women love perfume. It would be wrong to categorize one type of scent for men and the other for women. Although commercials do a great job of drawing a line between male and famine perfumes, when in reality there is no one on earth that can really distinguish between a male or female perfume. It really goes to say that the best perfume for you is what you like. For many people that may even mean wearing commercially advertised female perfume. Smelling like roses may be a good idea for a woman but in many cultures men love to keep flowers in their pockets as well. So pick the perfume you like and it would leave a great impression regardless of what gender it is meant for.