Stress, certain foods medication and hormonal changes, including pregnancy and the menopause, affect how a fragrance smells on you. If you try a fragrance and do not like it the first time try again when these factors are not evident, you might be surprised. It is also advisable to avoid testing a fragrance for several days after eating spicy foods or garlic, unless these foods are a regular part of your diet, as these foods can drastically alter how a fragrance should smell.

We recommend that when testing a new fragrance you should allow the fragrance to settle and be absorbed into your skin for around 10 minutes. This enables you to experience the full character of the perfume and obtain a hint of the different levels of the fragrances notes as the scent mixes with your body's chemistry. The Perfume Guide also recommends that you should not test more than 3 fragrances at one time. This is because your nose becomes desensitized after this period and will not be able to observe and detect the complexities of the fragrance and perfumed notes

Finally you should experiment with different fragrances families and different types of perfume. A fine fragrance or designer perfume should be seen as a fragranced part of your wardrobe and just as you wear different clothes for different season, occasions and moods, your fragrance collection should be rotated and balanced in this manner to include different a variety of fragrances for that perfect occasion.

5 tips to wear your perfume:

• Often the best way to make your fragrance or perfume last is to layer the scent. So begin in the shower or bath using a your designer fragrance bath and shower gel or soap. Next use a fragranced body cream, or for a lighter affect a perfumed body lotion massaged gently into the skin. After the fragranced body products have been absorbed into the skin, sprtiz the perfume strength all over the body.
• Many fine fragrance experts and perfume connoisseurs recommend spraying an EDT, EDP or dabbing a Perfume onto the pulse points. These include the wrists, behind the ears, neck, behind the elbow and backs of the knees.
• The ultimate Perfume Guide tip to making your fine fragrance or perfume last a long time is to spray your fragrance onto your hairbrush and running the fragranced brush through your hair. This is because the hair is more porous than the skin and absorbs the perfume quickly and effectively.
• Many designer perfume houses advise that you spray the fragrance of perfume into the air a few inches in front of you, then step into the perfumed mist you have created for a subtle effect.
• Another means of making a fragrance last is to scent your clothes, as well as your bed linens.