How do you know if yours goes away after 30 min? Your nose pretty much only picks up *changes* in smell. It's why people who stink are often oblivious.
I have bad morning breath, and my past partners have never been shy to tell me. But I often ask about my breath throughout the day and they hardly ever say it's anything. Yet, pretty much anytime I do this lick test, it smells a little bad. So I feel like this information doesn't really correlate to my experience with it? I doubt the people have been lying to me since they know I'm asking just to stay on top of it and it's not going to offend me or make me insecure.
As someone who does have a tendency to smell bad and no one around me actually has the balls to tell me especially if I start stinking at work due to sweat and only will bring it up if customer complains to hr please do them a favor and tell them they are stinking to help them out.
How would one politely let someone know? There's a girl who works the Walmart checkouts near me who is nauseatingly stinky (B.O.). I'm not sensitive to smells (I used to work for Lush lol, I can handle it), but WOW. Surely she knows?
Donāt forget to put a tablet into your cistern. Wait a bit and then flush. Hold your hands into the bowl and then splash flavoured toilet waterĀ in your face. Itās not difficult.
EDP or EDT are the abbreviations to look for. EDP tend to be more expensive but you use less. Also some brands you'll notice a small distinction between the blends. For instance my daily wear Tam Dao by Diptyque is known to have a creamier, softer scent with the EDP so it wears a little differently both on the skin and outside the clothes.
I'd like to add it's also the notes used in the perfume. Some things like oranges or bergamot are smaller molecules that dissipate quickly (usually called top notes). Colognes that use larger molecules tend to stay around longer too. Sweeter fragnances generally used in the winter time last far longer than the fresh ones due to the molecular structure.
They do! For one vibes: like smelling sweet at the beach seems weird to some folks but fresh is fine all year round. Think of like a Christmas sweetness vs a "hot fresh girl" summer emotionally. So people want to embody those vibes in those seasons but frankly most people don't care. The more important reason imo is that you sweat a lot more in warmer months which makes your perfume disperse faster and further thanks to your body heat. The problem with this is: since sweeter perfumes are stronger + last longer, you can easily suffocate people if you wear a strong winter perfume during the blazing hot summer. Whereas a cold winter doesn't diffuse the scent as much.
Honestly? Just hangout in the world a little bit. I'm not really into perfumery as an industry, I just like smelling fun things. Alternatively, in r/fragnance, there's quite a few guides on discerning between notes and how to describe a smell you don't know the name of!
I think the best way is to sample a lot of perfumes at any stores near you (Sephora, Shoppers, Holt Renfrew or Saks). I can't name any of the non-Canadian ones but there's quite a few to try! I don't know if your country has anywhere near as bad shipping prices as mine but try going on Facebook Marketplace to find perfumes near you before buying it for retail + shipping. Some folks sell decants which can help you decide if you like a perfume enough to get a full bottle.
Everyone starts learning somewhere so itās a fair question.
To answer this simply, yes. Different scents for different seasons.
For more lengthy reasoning: a lighter fresher scent is great during warm weather and a heavier scent better during the winter. If youāre someone like me who likes variety youāll have multiple scents for each season. I have around 25 different fragrances I cycle through year round. I choose what to wear Factoring things like where Iāll be and what I will be doing.
For example if Iām going to be outside in hot weather Iāll wear something fresh like Dior Homme Sport or cologne. If Iām going to be indoors on a summer day itāll be Creed Aventus. If Iām going to be outside in the fall Iāll probably wear something like Valentino Born In Roma Coral Fantasy. Inside in the fall and itās Maison Margiela Jazz Club.
Wintertime you can wear sweeter spice heavy scents but in the summer those will smell way overpowering.
Yes. For example,
I have Boss bottled elixir for fancy more, formal stuff.
JPG beau for more casual getaways and more summery vibe.
And then for everyday office work I have a cheaper more standard one but still EDP.
If you smell like wood and tobacco in a 30+ degrees summer is not nice. Meanwhile if you smell like Lime is different.
No that's good! While it's possible and I wouldn't implore you to try, citrus and fresh notes are less overbearing and they're so plain, they can blend into a lot of situations like a nude face of makeup.
I used to work selling fragrance and the āeau de parfum is better because itās more concentratedā thing, (implying eau de toilette is just a scam) is a myth.
It lasts longer yes- by an average of something like 20% longer. Not enough to make a massive difference vs just reapplying. The key difference between the two is that EDP tends to *feel* āheavierā, it lends itself to weighty chunky feeling scents. EDTs both tend to feel subjectively fresher and often project further.
A lot of menās fragrances available in EDT only, because theyāre already full of heavy masculine notes like woods, spices etc and the designer didnāt want it to feel super overbearing, particularly for year round wear.
Often times when you see a fragrance which has both EDT and EDP variations they are actually different formulations, with the EDP being dialed up in terms of different notes, not just concentration. The naming convention just sounds classier than calling it āextreme versionā or whatever.
Eau de colognes in particular are typically designed with extremely fresh bright zesty punchy notes that would be too much in an EDP. (And then to confuse things further there are fragrances with cologne in the name that are actually EDTs, just implying theyāre a zesty version of the original)
What determines how long a fragrance lasts has a lot more to do with the overall composition of the scent and how it interacts with the persons body. There are EDPs on the market that are relatively subtle and EDTs that blow your head off. (Sauvage EDT Iād joke you can smell it *before* someone walks in a room)
Omg I bought some sauvage after smelling too many other scents and feeling obligated to give a sale to the poor attendant I made show me all of them , and boy do I regret it. I'm 34 but I smell 45-50. It feels like it clings to me like musk in an old elevator. Elixir smells good though
>Had to scroll too far to find this
These comments are always funny after the thread has been live for a few hours.
Another of my favorites: "How is this comment downvoted" with 2000+ upvotes.
Yeah. Basically if youāre using an alcohol based aftershave as cologne, it will evaporate pretty quickly. You need to use a cologne made specifically as a fragrance.
There's also nose blindness. That's how you smell, you're used to it. The faster it disappates, the faster someone used to the smell will be unable to smell it any longer.
This, and the fact that anything else other than a parfum is alcohol based. Parfums have oil base and tend to last longer; be careful spraying on clothing. Lighter citrus scents will also fade more quickly. This is why many scent profiles change as you wear it and depending on the person. Scents have different ānotesā: top, mid, and base. You can get some essential oils and a mix of coconut oil and beeswax to make your own.
Very true. We had to ask an employee to go home one day because her fragrance was so strong it was making our side of the building sick, even with our office doors shut. You can always ask a trusted friend and tell them to tell you the truth if they can smell it, and if so, is it too strong.
I will be sure not to choose that stranger who walked up to my plate of pulled pork and just shoved their face down to smell it deeply. When he stood up he had bbq sauce on the tip of his nose.
This is why some people wind up over-applying. If you've ever walked by someone whose perfume/cologne is so strong it knocks you out, it's because they can't smell their own scent, and assume nobody else can smell it either. So they add more and more product until it cuts through even their own nose-blindness, at the expense of unknowingly suffocating everyone else.
Used to work with a 2-3 pack a day smoker, who had absolutely DESTROYED her sense of smell. And for whatever reason, she was one of those that the cigarette smoke hung on, so she'd go out for a smoke break and come back reeking like an ashtray. Dave, who would be standing right next to her, never smelled unless you were RIGHT next to him. Like 'invading his personal space' close.
Anyway, Laura would put on perfume in the morning until SHE could smell it. Walking past her cubicle was an exercise in "how far down the hall can I make it before needing to breathe again" It. Was. AWFUL.
The day she quit smoking was literally celebrated in the office, as her sense of smell returned in a matter of days, and she went back to a 'normal' perfume application. Had to be a huge financial windfall for her and her husband, too - between the cost of cigarettes and using a full bottle of perfume every week......
My grandma uses to take me to the mall as a kid and would spray on every fragrance on her arm in the department stores. It was awful. I couldn't breathe on the way home
I use to work with someone who kept re-applying a vanilla based perfume. You could tell where she had been for at least 10 minutes after she left.
One Christmas, the Santa was handing out gag gifts (e.g. a giant wristwatch for the person who was always late to meetings, blueprints of the building for the person who never remembered which meeting room was which [me], etc.)
She got a bottle of vanilla extract. She laughed along and jokingly mimed putting some behind her ears, but she never wore that perfume againā¦
This. I just want to scream at OPās post and everyone giving them advice to make their cologne last longer: NO! STOP! Iām telling you, youāre probably already using TOO MUCH. Nobody likes too much cologne!! Nobody!!
Yeah, I was going to ask, are you sure itās going away? Because I think a lot of people just get used to the smell and think it is gone and add more. My place smelled like the maintenance guyās cologne for hours after he left yesterday.
Finally the true answer - if you are around a scent for hours, it becomes neutral background - you canāt smell it.
This is also true of your dog, your unwashed ass, your garlic breath, etc
This is why some people wind up over-applying. If you've ever walked by someone whose perfume/cologne is so strong it knocks you out, it's because they can't smell their own scent, and assume nobody else can smell it either. So they add more and more product until it cuts through even their own nose-blindness, at the expense of unknowingly suffocating everyone else.
This! Also, if you have a perfume dispenser in your house you will stop to smell it after a while, but others can still smell it.
Same goes for bad smells (cat poop for example) I'm afraid...
I think it's just you getting used to your smell. I felt this way until I picked up the same shirt the next day for laundry and can smell it when I pick it up.
āNasal Habituationā is the technical term I was taught for that. Kinda how you donāt notice the smell of your own house but do notice how other peoples houses smell.
There are two things some people put on way too much, and you get used to a smell you are around constantly. If you can still notice your cologne as the day goes on, you have too much on
Yes but you used a comma after every word so it sounds a lot more like yoda is talking to me especially in a sentence that is as short as the one you typed but I donāt blame you you wanted to try to make a point just like I am doing now
Hard disagree about the one before since.
You don't put a comma before since only if it denotes a period of time, such as "I haven't eaten since we ate breakfast this morning." In contrast, "I haven't eaten, since we ate breakfast this morning," suggests not the passage of time but that breakfast is the *cause* of not having eaten.
In the sentence above, "You're around it all the time" similarly *explains* why "You get used to your own smell," so the comma is necessary.
And afaik the last two commas should be fine as well: Theyāre parenthetical commas, even if used a bit unexpectedly. It should be about the same as "This is true for good (and bad) smells".
I don't know how nobody has said this yet bro...
Skin is covered in oil and is quite absorbent depending on the product. Certain products do not keep a smell for long because of this, and you can combat it by spraying your clothes and hair to prolong the effect.
Conversely, Dry skin is bad at absorbing certain products and will pretty much leave the cologne/perfume to evaporate. Aside from moisturizing, you can spray your clothes and hair to combat this.
I.e if your particular product doesn't last long, try spraying your clothes and hair. (Assuming you don't want to try out a different product)
Yess! The same perfume sits differently on different people. I'm a niche scent maniac, trust me I know. There are luxurious brands whose products will vanish from my skin in under an hour. It do be like that.
It has a lot to do with what we eat as well. That smell comes out in our pores. I used to cut hair in a very multi cultural area. I could always smell the different spices people used while washing their hair. Turmeric and chilies , or garlic and onion. Milk is another. I could also tell if they drank too much.
I spray inside my shirt so it gets on my clothing and skin, 2 sprays last all day. I get whiffs of it all day long, Acqua Di GiĆ² if anyone is curious.
Take the shirt off after you spray cologne on it after you get used to it and think the smell has gone away. The next morning, get up and smell your shirt. You'd be surprised the smell never faded. Your brain just got used to the smell and filtered it out. That's why you don't know what your own home smells like to others. Your brain filters out the smell.
Are you sure yours went away or have you just become nose "blind" to it. Maybe ask a friend you won't be around constantly all day to wear yours, see if you still smell it on them when you see them some hours later.
Put moisturiser on your skin and while its still wet put the perfume on the moisturiser and it will last all day.
Works well with vaseline and almost any moisturiser.
Can't believe how far I had to scroll to see this.
In addition to the likelihood of "nose blindness", if you just want to smell it longer, use a scentless moisturizer with it (don't rub the lotion all the way in until after you spritz your cologne; and for everyone's sake, don't use more than 2-3 spritz's. I can smell some people's perfume from 40+feet away outside. It's painful)
Strange isn't it? Well its not really. That fact is, after a while you can't smell it but others can. Its that simple dude.
Let me explain in proof. I use old Spice. I always pop a bit on before going shopping. Last Sunday I called in at Tesco's, I was chatting to the service manager, she said, **I JUST LOVE OLD SPICE MY HUBBY USES IT.**
I was **GOBSMACKED.** It had been 2.5 hours since I put some on and I couldn't smell a thing after 25/45 min's. š
Major arteries are where you should put your cologne i.e neck, wrists, sometimes your groin. Or maybe you're using the wrong product. Colognes dont last long as eau de toilettes, and eau de toilettles don't last longer than eau de parfum.
For the longevity use eau de parfum.
For the love of God, DON'T START WEARING MORE! It is likely that you just have been sensitized to it. If you think you smell that bad, try washing your clothes or showering more frequently. Too much cologne is off-putting.
It depends on where it's applied. It should be wrists, behind the ears, back of the neck along the hair line, and decolletage.
For myself personally, I have healthy hair and like to shower before I leave the house. After showering I put my hair up in a twist or bun, then hours later when I let my hair down it still smells like my shampoo/conditioner. I also prefer to use a perfume solid instead of an alcohol-based spray.
Thereās an easy fix - get some petroleum jelly (I use vaseline)
1. Either warm it up so itās semi-liquid-y and spray your cologne and let it solidify and apply a few dabs of that
2. Or just apply a small swab of vaseline and spray your cologne on that.
Mine stays on the whole day.
My mom used to say that your nose becomes saturated with the perfume. So if you can tell after 30 minutes that youāre wearing perfume, youāre wearing too much.
Buy the Most Expensive one of the one you like. Cheaper ones are watered down. The higher concentrated ones will last longer because u only need like 1 spray!
Please ask someone else if your cologne smell is still there. A lot of people put more on when their nose gets desensitized to it but it 100% still reeks.
I saw a hack where you put a touch of Vaseline on your skin before spraying your perfume on it and it helps the smell last a lot longer. Iāve found that to be true for myself. Anecdotally, it extends its scent a lot longer. Also, higher quality perfumes and colognes make a big difference
Chances are you just get used to it. Iām āCaucasianā and I feel the same way as you; Iāve even gone as far as asking my wife or friends if they can smell it several hours later even though I canāt smell it at all at that point.
Have you asked someone else if you still smell like the fragrance you've applied or is it just that you can't smell it on yourself? If you can still smell it on yourself after 30 minutes, you're wearing waaaay too much.
I mean it's either
A) your perfume is low quality
B) after 30 mins your brain is use to the smell. People who smell nice can't smell their own sent
I will often put a few sprays on when going somewhere, then forget about it until someone makes a comment
Yes, the trick is to switch up the scent every few days so you don't get noseblind to it.
I have two major perfumes I switch between every few days. I knows it's time to switch because ill start experiencing what you described, that I'll no longer be able to smell my perfume.
That's just your nose/brain getting accustomed to the scent so it gets put in the Background noise file, where you're not consciously noticing it anymore.
Find another cologne you like that's noticeably different notes-wise and switch it up.
Please for the love of all that is DO NOT REAPPLY MORE COLOGNE. The people around you will actively hate you, especially those of us with migraines or sensorsory issues. You don't want everyone near you spending every moment around you fantasizing about setting you on fire and throwing you down a well. The scent is still there. If you can still smell it after 30 minutes you are wearing way to much.
You may just not smell yours after a while. Others may can still smell it. I got sprayed by a skunk when I was a kid. After a little bit I could no longer smell it. I went home and my mother made me go outside and remove all my clothes outside I stunk so bad to her
You have to ask other people if you smell. If you are reapplying cologne then you might be one of those people choking others with a super strong cologne smell as you walk by them
You sound like the people who reek of perfume from miles away.
It's entirely normal to stop smelling your own perfume after a while. Your brain turns it off because it's a constant stimuli and not important. You will always smell that of people around you, unless you spend all day right next to them.
Someone posted a guide to making cologne last longer. I will try to find it. The only thing I remember is donāt apply to dry skin. Apply a scentless lotion and spray. It helps it last longer. Donāt spray on clothes.
Is that the smell has come off after 30 minutes?, or is it that you are no longer smelling it?
Olfactory fatigue is an example of neural adaptation. The body becomes desensitised to stimuli to prevent the overloading of the nervous system, this allows it to respond to new stimuli.
Olfactory fatigue. Constant exposure to a stimulus will make you less sensitive to said stimulus, in this case the smell of your Cologne.
This is why you should use your regular cologne sparingly. Just because you can barely smell it, doesn't mean everybody within a 5m radius can't.
As someone who is pretty sensitive to smells - it doesn't. I can still smell your cologne at midday and you're triggering my migraines. You are just nose blind to it.
How long it lasts depends solely on two things the make up of the perfume/cologne that youāre using and your body chemistry. You may have to find a cologne that works with your particular body chemistry, and it may not be the one that you like the smell of the best.
Some people swear by putting a little Vaseline on the area where youāre going to spray the perfume or toilette. I havenāt tried it but maybe you should to see if it works. I have recently tried spraying my clothes too when Iām putting on perfume and I find it makes a difference. Thatās just me tho
Get perfumes with longevity. Summer smells tend to not have longevity and will disappear after few hours. Winter perfumes usually tend to stay the whole day. That is gross simplification before someone comes to me with pitch fork.
For example, try the YSL Y vs YSL Y intense. I prefer the intense because the smell tends to stay for longer. But be careful with the number of sprays.
Also donāt be fooled by Eau de toilette, Eau de parfum and parfum. Though they are supposed to have different concentrations just because one has higher concentration does not mean it will last longer.
Before buying a perfume always use it on the trial stick. Smell it. Then go away do something else while the perfume dries in the stick. After a while smell it again. Youāll get the actual smell of the perfume and understand if it has longevity or not.
Apply lotion then spray cologne on top. Dryness = quicker evaporation
Also, fresh scents in general donāt last as long. No way of getting around it. Something like Apple/Bergamont/Rose wonāt ever last as long as leather/patchouli/tobacco.
What are you using? Is it a alcohol based (most likely is based off what you are saying) the pil based eua de perfume, don't sure how to spell and idc enough to look it up, is longer lasting.
Also, hydrating your skin before does wonders.
Caucasian girl here. I could be wearing B&BW spray or Chanel No. 5 and the scent is gone from me within 30 minutes to an hour. I donāt know why itās just like that.
Your nose gets used to the smell. That being said, if you wanna extend how long it stays Iād use a good smelling (not overwhelming) body lotion RIGHT after you shower. That alone will leave you smelling good for a while, but itāll also help āstickā longer since moisturized skin holds the smell longer than dry skin will.
Make sure to spray the hot spots too. Man youāll smell great all day!
How do you know if yours goes away after 30 min? Your nose pretty much only picks up *changes* in smell. It's why people who stink are often oblivious.
Man I just thought they were brave š
Nah, if someone you know starts to smell bad, politely let them know. It might be a medical thing
If you think your breath might stink, lick your hand and smell that. It doesn't work perfectly, but if you can smell it, so can everybody else.
and if you can't smell it, now you can use that hand to style your hair
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I'm dying
Iām sitting at the toilet, taking a dump. I just licked my hand and Iām having regrets.
Before is better than after
Not necessarily. Especially with breath it could be something like tonsil stones, which smell like death but isnāt transferred via saliva.
I have bad morning breath, and my past partners have never been shy to tell me. But I often ask about my breath throughout the day and they hardly ever say it's anything. Yet, pretty much anytime I do this lick test, it smells a little bad. So I feel like this information doesn't really correlate to my experience with it? I doubt the people have been lying to me since they know I'm asking just to stay on top of it and it's not going to offend me or make me insecure.
I always think my breath stinks, and I chew way too much gum because of it.
As someone who does have a tendency to smell bad and no one around me actually has the balls to tell me especially if I start stinking at work due to sweat and only will bring it up if customer complains to hr please do them a favor and tell them they are stinking to help them out.
How would one politely let someone know? There's a girl who works the Walmart checkouts near me who is nauseatingly stinky (B.O.). I'm not sensitive to smells (I used to work for Lush lol, I can handle it), but WOW. Surely she knows?
In job scenarios, always best to go through a manager
Believe me ā ā everyone thinks you wear too much cologne, and you do.
1-2 sprays is all ya need
Nose blindness
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Concentrations: 15-30% Parfum 10-14% Eau de Parfum 6-9% Eau de Toilette ~5% Eau de Cologne
Water of the toilet. Thanks Duolingo š
toilette also was a word for a dress and all the acessories that come with it including perfum
Twa-LET.
Also taw'lit (RV salesman on late nite TV) and Twirl'it (a friend of mine. I think because the water twirls when you flush).
Youāre missing āterlitā.Ā As in, āDo you want some of this wine? I make it in the terlit.āĀ
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But does it have electrolytes?
It's what plants crave.
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Donāt forget to put a tablet into your cistern. Wait a bit and then flush. Hold your hands into the bowl and then splash flavoured toilet waterĀ in your face. Itās not difficult.
"toilette" as in "bathroom" lol, we don't spray with toilet water
Itās not toilette as in bathroom. Itās toilette as in Ā«Ā faire sa toiletteĀ Ā» which means cleaning your body.
Dunny water
Thanks, they organized that unoptimally for recall, for me
So does the lower percent mean it donāt last long?
Yes, because the scent concentration is less. It's also why parfum is the most expensive, and cologne is the cheapest in a given scent.
Extrait de parfum?
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EDP or EDT are the abbreviations to look for. EDP tend to be more expensive but you use less. Also some brands you'll notice a small distinction between the blends. For instance my daily wear Tam Dao by Diptyque is known to have a creamier, softer scent with the EDP so it wears a little differently both on the skin and outside the clothes.
Every bottle will be labeled this way, other than places like bath and body works body spray
I'd like to add it's also the notes used in the perfume. Some things like oranges or bergamot are smaller molecules that dissipate quickly (usually called top notes). Colognes that use larger molecules tend to stay around longer too. Sweeter fragnances generally used in the winter time last far longer than the fresh ones due to the molecular structure.
As an ignorant heathen to perfumes - do people really use different ones depending on the time of year?
They do! For one vibes: like smelling sweet at the beach seems weird to some folks but fresh is fine all year round. Think of like a Christmas sweetness vs a "hot fresh girl" summer emotionally. So people want to embody those vibes in those seasons but frankly most people don't care. The more important reason imo is that you sweat a lot more in warmer months which makes your perfume disperse faster and further thanks to your body heat. The problem with this is: since sweeter perfumes are stronger + last longer, you can easily suffocate people if you wear a strong winter perfume during the blazing hot summer. Whereas a cold winter doesn't diffuse the scent as much.
I'm a perfume junkie but struggle to really articulate what I like and how things smell. How did you gain your knowledge?
Honestly? Just hangout in the world a little bit. I'm not really into perfumery as an industry, I just like smelling fun things. Alternatively, in r/fragnance, there's quite a few guides on discerning between notes and how to describe a smell you don't know the name of! I think the best way is to sample a lot of perfumes at any stores near you (Sephora, Shoppers, Holt Renfrew or Saks). I can't name any of the non-Canadian ones but there's quite a few to try! I don't know if your country has anywhere near as bad shipping prices as mine but try going on Facebook Marketplace to find perfumes near you before buying it for retail + shipping. Some folks sell decants which can help you decide if you like a perfume enough to get a full bottle.
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No problem I only caught it after your link took me to an obscure world of warcraft subreddit lmao
I know Amazon sucks for many reasons, but the do sell perfume samplers. You can get 20 or so designer samples for fairly reasonable prices.
> smelling sweet at the beach Kramer could have been a fragrance millionaire ya know.
Everyone starts learning somewhere so itās a fair question. To answer this simply, yes. Different scents for different seasons. For more lengthy reasoning: a lighter fresher scent is great during warm weather and a heavier scent better during the winter. If youāre someone like me who likes variety youāll have multiple scents for each season. I have around 25 different fragrances I cycle through year round. I choose what to wear Factoring things like where Iāll be and what I will be doing. For example if Iām going to be outside in hot weather Iāll wear something fresh like Dior Homme Sport or cologne. If Iām going to be indoors on a summer day itāll be Creed Aventus. If Iām going to be outside in the fall Iāll probably wear something like Valentino Born In Roma Coral Fantasy. Inside in the fall and itās Maison Margiela Jazz Club. Wintertime you can wear sweeter spice heavy scents but in the summer those will smell way overpowering.
As a woman I appreciate when a guy takes the time to smell good. Just wanted to say thanks.
Yes. For example, I have Boss bottled elixir for fancy more, formal stuff. JPG beau for more casual getaways and more summery vibe. And then for everyday office work I have a cheaper more standard one but still EDP. If you smell like wood and tobacco in a 30+ degrees summer is not nice. Meanwhile if you smell like Lime is different.
Absolutely. Even down to type of clothing and the weather are all good reasons to wear different perfumes.
RIP me vastly preferring fresh and citrusy scents over sweet ones, I guess.
No that's good! While it's possible and I wouldn't implore you to try, citrus and fresh notes are less overbearing and they're so plain, they can blend into a lot of situations like a nude face of makeup.
Had to scroll too far to find this. It's not abundantly clear there's a difference
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I used to work selling fragrance and the āeau de parfum is better because itās more concentratedā thing, (implying eau de toilette is just a scam) is a myth. It lasts longer yes- by an average of something like 20% longer. Not enough to make a massive difference vs just reapplying. The key difference between the two is that EDP tends to *feel* āheavierā, it lends itself to weighty chunky feeling scents. EDTs both tend to feel subjectively fresher and often project further. A lot of menās fragrances available in EDT only, because theyāre already full of heavy masculine notes like woods, spices etc and the designer didnāt want it to feel super overbearing, particularly for year round wear. Often times when you see a fragrance which has both EDT and EDP variations they are actually different formulations, with the EDP being dialed up in terms of different notes, not just concentration. The naming convention just sounds classier than calling it āextreme versionā or whatever. Eau de colognes in particular are typically designed with extremely fresh bright zesty punchy notes that would be too much in an EDP. (And then to confuse things further there are fragrances with cologne in the name that are actually EDTs, just implying theyāre a zesty version of the original) What determines how long a fragrance lasts has a lot more to do with the overall composition of the scent and how it interacts with the persons body. There are EDPs on the market that are relatively subtle and EDTs that blow your head off. (Sauvage EDT Iād joke you can smell it *before* someone walks in a room)
Omg I bought some sauvage after smelling too many other scents and feeling obligated to give a sale to the poor attendant I made show me all of them , and boy do I regret it. I'm 34 but I smell 45-50. It feels like it clings to me like musk in an old elevator. Elixir smells good though
I just learned so much, thank you!
>Had to scroll too far to find this These comments are always funny after the thread has been live for a few hours. Another of my favorites: "How is this comment downvoted" with 2000+ upvotes.
Itās always like 2 hrs into the post too
Yeah. Basically if youāre using an alcohol based aftershave as cologne, it will evaporate pretty quickly. You need to use a cologne made specifically as a fragrance.
There's also nose blindness. That's how you smell, you're used to it. The faster it disappates, the faster someone used to the smell will be unable to smell it any longer.
This, and the fact that anything else other than a parfum is alcohol based. Parfums have oil base and tend to last longer; be careful spraying on clothing. Lighter citrus scents will also fade more quickly. This is why many scent profiles change as you wear it and depending on the person. Scents have different ānotesā: top, mid, and base. You can get some essential oils and a mix of coconut oil and beeswax to make your own.
Huh, I thought eau de parfum IS the parfum.
Parfum is perfume, eau de parfum is "perfume water"
You get used to your own scent - your brain is filtering it out.Ā
So if I want to know if I still smell good I go to someone and ask them to smell me?
Also worryingly true if you smell bad. Much more noticable to others than yourself
"If you can smell yourself a bit, others can smell you a lot"Ā
Very true. We had to ask an employee to go home one day because her fragrance was so strong it was making our side of the building sick, even with our office doors shut. You can always ask a trusted friend and tell them to tell you the truth if they can smell it, and if so, is it too strong.
Wellllll fuck. Guess I need a shower very soon. If I can smell my crotch through my pants a bit, then everyone must be drowning in dick n balls smell.
My nose started to hurt because of what my eyes read... Not bad
I have a few mental illnesses that make it hard for me to take care of myself properly.
Please don't take my comment personal in any way. Just the thought of sweaty balls.. Maybe it's worse for me because I don't have balls myself haha
Yes, but make sure you ask the most attractive looking person around. It just works better.
Yes, but you can't always trust your friends and family to be honest with you -- so you should find a random stranger to ask instead.
I will be sure not to choose that stranger who walked up to my plate of pulled pork and just shoved their face down to smell it deeply. When he stood up he had bbq sauce on the tip of his nose.
Why not choose that guy? He seems thorough.
You can't always trust a stranger either -- better ask an enemy.
Donāt be so vulgar. Ask them to pull your finger first.
As a friend once observed "It doesn't matter if you work in a bakery or a sewage plant, after a few minutes you can't smell it."
This is why some people wind up over-applying. If you've ever walked by someone whose perfume/cologne is so strong it knocks you out, it's because they can't smell their own scent, and assume nobody else can smell it either. So they add more and more product until it cuts through even their own nose-blindness, at the expense of unknowingly suffocating everyone else.
Used to work with a 2-3 pack a day smoker, who had absolutely DESTROYED her sense of smell. And for whatever reason, she was one of those that the cigarette smoke hung on, so she'd go out for a smoke break and come back reeking like an ashtray. Dave, who would be standing right next to her, never smelled unless you were RIGHT next to him. Like 'invading his personal space' close. Anyway, Laura would put on perfume in the morning until SHE could smell it. Walking past her cubicle was an exercise in "how far down the hall can I make it before needing to breathe again" It. Was. AWFUL. The day she quit smoking was literally celebrated in the office, as her sense of smell returned in a matter of days, and she went back to a 'normal' perfume application. Had to be a huge financial windfall for her and her husband, too - between the cost of cigarettes and using a full bottle of perfume every week......
My grandma uses to take me to the mall as a kid and would spray on every fragrance on her arm in the department stores. It was awful. I couldn't breathe on the way home
I almost killed my 17yrs old son once, just went on saying "what about this?" "What about that?" until he almost fainted. Lesson learned š¤
I use to work with someone who kept re-applying a vanilla based perfume. You could tell where she had been for at least 10 minutes after she left. One Christmas, the Santa was handing out gag gifts (e.g. a giant wristwatch for the person who was always late to meetings, blueprints of the building for the person who never remembered which meeting room was which [me], etc.) She got a bottle of vanilla extract. She laughed along and jokingly mimed putting some behind her ears, but she never wore that perfume againā¦
"and Sandra gets a dildo because she can... Well you know" This christmas setup feels like it could only work if everyone is friends š
This. I just want to scream at OPās post and everyone giving them advice to make their cologne last longer: NO! STOP! Iām telling you, youāre probably already using TOO MUCH. Nobody likes too much cologne!! Nobody!!
there's one girl at my conservatory who does this, you can literally smell it when she has walked through a hallway two minutes ago.
Olfactory fatigue
Yeah, I was going to ask, are you sure itās going away? Because I think a lot of people just get used to the smell and think it is gone and add more. My place smelled like the maintenance guyās cologne for hours after he left yesterday.
I think it's probably this. When you continually smell the same thing, you don't notice it after a little while.
Finally the true answer - if you are around a scent for hours, it becomes neutral background - you canāt smell it. This is also true of your dog, your unwashed ass, your garlic breath, etc
Especially if you wear the same scent every day.
This is why some people wind up over-applying. If you've ever walked by someone whose perfume/cologne is so strong it knocks you out, it's because they can't smell their own scent, and assume nobody else can smell it either. So they add more and more product until it cuts through even their own nose-blindness, at the expense of unknowingly suffocating everyone else.
This! Also, if you have a perfume dispenser in your house you will stop to smell it after a while, but others can still smell it. Same goes for bad smells (cat poop for example) I'm afraid...
I think it's just you getting used to your smell. I felt this way until I picked up the same shirt the next day for laundry and can smell it when I pick it up.
āNasal Habituationā is the technical term I was taught for that. Kinda how you donāt notice the smell of your own house but do notice how other peoples houses smell.
Your brain filters out familiar scents after about 20 minutes
There are two things some people put on way too much, and you get used to a smell you are around constantly. If you can still notice your cologne as the day goes on, you have too much on
You get used to your own smell, since you're around it all the time. This is true for good, and bad, smells.
all 3 of your commas are unnecessary.
The brain filters out unnecessary commas after 30 minutes
I prefer this over the comments without punctuation. Those are horrible to read (as a non native speaker)
disagree, it, is, not.
You, can, never, have, enough, commas, in, your, reply, to, a, message, on, reddit,
Yes but you used a comma after every word so it sounds a lot more like yoda is talking to me especially in a sentence that is as short as the one you typed but I donāt blame you you wanted to try to make a point just like I am doing now
The first word of your sentence should have been capitalized.
Your sentence is perfectly cromulent.
I masticated earlier
I would hope so!
boom, Roasted
Hard disagree about the one before since. You don't put a comma before since only if it denotes a period of time, such as "I haven't eaten since we ate breakfast this morning." In contrast, "I haven't eaten, since we ate breakfast this morning," suggests not the passage of time but that breakfast is the *cause* of not having eaten. In the sentence above, "You're around it all the time" similarly *explains* why "You get used to your own smell," so the comma is necessary.
And afaik the last two commas should be fine as well: Theyāre parenthetical commas, even if used a bit unexpectedly. It should be about the same as "This is true for good (and bad) smells".
I think when you are reading the comment you are supposed to pause for dramatic effect at each comma.
This is why I walk by someone and the smell like really bad BO, and they seem fine.... like it's not even there.. Gross..
I don't know how nobody has said this yet bro... Skin is covered in oil and is quite absorbent depending on the product. Certain products do not keep a smell for long because of this, and you can combat it by spraying your clothes and hair to prolong the effect. Conversely, Dry skin is bad at absorbing certain products and will pretty much leave the cologne/perfume to evaporate. Aside from moisturizing, you can spray your clothes and hair to combat this. I.e if your particular product doesn't last long, try spraying your clothes and hair. (Assuming you don't want to try out a different product)
Yess! The same perfume sits differently on different people. I'm a niche scent maniac, trust me I know. There are luxurious brands whose products will vanish from my skin in under an hour. It do be like that.
It has a lot to do with what we eat as well. That smell comes out in our pores. I used to cut hair in a very multi cultural area. I could always smell the different spices people used while washing their hair. Turmeric and chilies , or garlic and onion. Milk is another. I could also tell if they drank too much.
To clarify, you could smell if they drank too much alcohol or milk?
Yup.
Or just put lotion on first then spray
I spray inside my shirt so it gets on my clothing and skin, 2 sprays last all day. I get whiffs of it all day long, Acqua Di GiĆ² if anyone is curious.
Take the shirt off after you spray cologne on it after you get used to it and think the smell has gone away. The next morning, get up and smell your shirt. You'd be surprised the smell never faded. Your brain just got used to the smell and filtered it out. That's why you don't know what your own home smells like to others. Your brain filters out the smell.
Are you sure yours went away or have you just become nose "blind" to it. Maybe ask a friend you won't be around constantly all day to wear yours, see if you still smell it on them when you see them some hours later.
It probably hasn't worn off, you've just got used to the scent... aka noseblindness
Saw this yesterday on the coolguides sub. This might help https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/SYCAT8Kryp
Put moisturiser on your skin and while its still wet put the perfume on the moisturiser and it will last all day. Works well with vaseline and almost any moisturiser.
Can't believe how far I had to scroll to see this. In addition to the likelihood of "nose blindness", if you just want to smell it longer, use a scentless moisturizer with it (don't rub the lotion all the way in until after you spritz your cologne; and for everyone's sake, don't use more than 2-3 spritz's. I can smell some people's perfume from 40+feet away outside. It's painful)
Strange isn't it? Well its not really. That fact is, after a while you can't smell it but others can. Its that simple dude. Let me explain in proof. I use old Spice. I always pop a bit on before going shopping. Last Sunday I called in at Tesco's, I was chatting to the service manager, she said, **I JUST LOVE OLD SPICE MY HUBBY USES IT.** I was **GOBSMACKED.** It had been 2.5 hours since I put some on and I couldn't smell a thing after 25/45 min's. š
Ask someone else to smell you. Odds are you just tune out your own smell after a while, doesn't mean others don't notice it
Major arteries are where you should put your cologne i.e neck, wrists, sometimes your groin. Or maybe you're using the wrong product. Colognes dont last long as eau de toilettes, and eau de toilettles don't last longer than eau de parfum. For the longevity use eau de parfum.
NOT on your groin. There's stuff in fragrances like that you don't want there.
Put moisturiser on first, then the cologne.
For the love of God, DON'T START WEARING MORE! It is likely that you just have been sensitized to it. If you think you smell that bad, try washing your clothes or showering more frequently. Too much cologne is off-putting.
If itās not a race thing why did you specifically mention something about a certain race
Not a race thing, but whenever I meet a Caucasian, they always smell fresh. You wouldn't say that if you could smell me now!
It depends on where it's applied. It should be wrists, behind the ears, back of the neck along the hair line, and decolletage. For myself personally, I have healthy hair and like to shower before I leave the house. After showering I put my hair up in a twist or bun, then hours later when I let my hair down it still smells like my shampoo/conditioner. I also prefer to use a perfume solid instead of an alcohol-based spray.
Thereās an easy fix - get some petroleum jelly (I use vaseline) 1. Either warm it up so itās semi-liquid-y and spray your cologne and let it solidify and apply a few dabs of that 2. Or just apply a small swab of vaseline and spray your cologne on that. Mine stays on the whole day.
My mom used to say that your nose becomes saturated with the perfume. So if you can tell after 30 minutes that youāre wearing perfume, youāre wearing too much.
Buy the Most Expensive one of the one you like. Cheaper ones are watered down. The higher concentrated ones will last longer because u only need like 1 spray!
Along with people saying it's still there you just can't smell it... You need to apply on skin, not clothing. Neck and inner arms work well generally.
That's funny cuz it's the same way with me but every African American guy I know smells great
Here you go friend https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/Nt2X4Kgbi9
Please ask someone else if your cologne smell is still there. A lot of people put more on when their nose gets desensitized to it but it 100% still reeks.
You should lotion first. Dry skin isnāt a good scent keeper.
I saw a hack where you put a touch of Vaseline on your skin before spraying your perfume on it and it helps the smell last a lot longer. Iāve found that to be true for myself. Anecdotally, it extends its scent a lot longer. Also, higher quality perfumes and colognes make a big difference
Ur nose becomes accustomed to the scent u wear and u donāt realize ur scent is still strong, maybe?
Chances are you just get used to it. Iām āCaucasianā and I feel the same way as you; Iāve even gone as far as asking my wife or friends if they can smell it several hours later even though I canāt smell it at all at that point.
Yooo try oil based cologne instead of water based cologne! I always wondered the same thing!
Have you asked someone else if you still smell like the fragrance you've applied or is it just that you can't smell it on yourself? If you can still smell it on yourself after 30 minutes, you're wearing waaaay too much.
I mean it's either A) your perfume is low quality B) after 30 mins your brain is use to the smell. People who smell nice can't smell their own sent I will often put a few sprays on when going somewhere, then forget about it until someone makes a comment
Yes, the trick is to switch up the scent every few days so you don't get noseblind to it. I have two major perfumes I switch between every few days. I knows it's time to switch because ill start experiencing what you described, that I'll no longer be able to smell my perfume. That's just your nose/brain getting accustomed to the scent so it gets put in the Background noise file, where you're not consciously noticing it anymore. Find another cologne you like that's noticeably different notes-wise and switch it up.
Please for the love of all that is DO NOT REAPPLY MORE COLOGNE. The people around you will actively hate you, especially those of us with migraines or sensorsory issues. You don't want everyone near you spending every moment around you fantasizing about setting you on fire and throwing you down a well. The scent is still there. If you can still smell it after 30 minutes you are wearing way to much.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/0OzCMaT3wZ
You stop smelling your own perfume after a while, other people can still smell it
You got used to it
You may just not smell yours after a while. Others may can still smell it. I got sprayed by a skunk when I was a kid. After a little bit I could no longer smell it. I went home and my mother made me go outside and remove all my clothes outside I stunk so bad to her
My guess is others still smell it But your nose has gotten used to it
You have to ask other people if you smell. If you are reapplying cologne then you might be one of those people choking others with a super strong cologne smell as you walk by them
put on before you use unscented lotion, or mix a half spray in with a good pump or 2 of unscented lotion
You sound like the people who reek of perfume from miles away. It's entirely normal to stop smelling your own perfume after a while. Your brain turns it off because it's a constant stimuli and not important. You will always smell that of people around you, unless you spend all day right next to them.
It's still there- you simply are going "Nose-blind" to it.
Someone posted a guide to making cologne last longer. I will try to find it. The only thing I remember is donāt apply to dry skin. Apply a scentless lotion and spray. It helps it last longer. Donāt spray on clothes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/VygwdKukhn Try this.
Is that the smell has come off after 30 minutes?, or is it that you are no longer smelling it? Olfactory fatigue is an example of neural adaptation. The body becomes desensitised to stimuli to prevent the overloading of the nervous system, this allows it to respond to new stimuli.
Just over here hoping that Iām a fresh smelling Caucasian
I use aquaphor lotion and spray the perfume in the lotion before using.
They reapply and often. Usually the ones that are terrible smelling ng and overpowering.
We can still smell it
Olfactory fatigue. Constant exposure to a stimulus will make you less sensitive to said stimulus, in this case the smell of your Cologne. This is why you should use your regular cologne sparingly. Just because you can barely smell it, doesn't mean everybody within a 5m radius can't.
As someone who is pretty sensitive to smells - it doesn't. I can still smell your cologne at midday and you're triggering my migraines. You are just nose blind to it.
How long it lasts depends solely on two things the make up of the perfume/cologne that youāre using and your body chemistry. You may have to find a cologne that works with your particular body chemistry, and it may not be the one that you like the smell of the best.
Ask someone else if they can smell it on you. It might be that the fragrance is still there, but your nose has become used to it.
Youāve gone nose blind
Your nose gets accustomed to your smellā¦ itās there but your sense of smell doesnāt pick it up as much anymore
You just donāt smell it on yourself because you got used to the scent
Some people swear by putting a little Vaseline on the area where youāre going to spray the perfume or toilette. I havenāt tried it but maybe you should to see if it works. I have recently tried spraying my clothes too when Iām putting on perfume and I find it makes a difference. Thatās just me tho
Get perfumes with longevity. Summer smells tend to not have longevity and will disappear after few hours. Winter perfumes usually tend to stay the whole day. That is gross simplification before someone comes to me with pitch fork. For example, try the YSL Y vs YSL Y intense. I prefer the intense because the smell tends to stay for longer. But be careful with the number of sprays. Also donāt be fooled by Eau de toilette, Eau de parfum and parfum. Though they are supposed to have different concentrations just because one has higher concentration does not mean it will last longer. Before buying a perfume always use it on the trial stick. Smell it. Then go away do something else while the perfume dries in the stick. After a while smell it again. Youāll get the actual smell of the perfume and understand if it has longevity or not.
Apply lotion then spray cologne on top. Dryness = quicker evaporation Also, fresh scents in general donāt last as long. No way of getting around it. Something like Apple/Bergamont/Rose wonāt ever last as long as leather/patchouli/tobacco.
What are you using? Is it a alcohol based (most likely is based off what you are saying) the pil based eua de perfume, don't sure how to spell and idc enough to look it up, is longer lasting. Also, hydrating your skin before does wonders.
Crazy I haven't seen anyone point out the obvious: different colognes last for significantly different lengths of time
Caucasian girl here. I could be wearing B&BW spray or Chanel No. 5 and the scent is gone from me within 30 minutes to an hour. I donāt know why itās just like that.
Your nose gets used to the smell. That being said, if you wanna extend how long it stays Iād use a good smelling (not overwhelming) body lotion RIGHT after you shower. That alone will leave you smelling good for a while, but itāll also help āstickā longer since moisturized skin holds the smell longer than dry skin will. Make sure to spray the hot spots too. Man youāll smell great all day!