You do not have to spend a fortune to smell good! Sure, some nice and famous scents are pricey, but you really do not have to chase brands for a good scent. Here are few tips to help you smell your finest on a show string budget.
- Pay attention to the smell, not the price tag. A perfume's quality should be judged by its smell and its smell alone. Put another way, a perfume doesn't necessarily smell bad just because it contains inexpensive ingredients; bad perfumes smell bad (think: chemical-y, alcohol-y, or just stale) because they contain poor quality ingredients. And conversely, you can throw a zillion expensive ingredients into a perfume, but that doesn't mean it's going to smell fantastic, either. So force yourself not to consider packaging, price, or anything but the scent as you sniff.
- Revisit the oldies but goodies: Old Spice, Love's Baby Soft, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Jovan Musk. Maybe you associate these with your dad, your babysitter, your mom. But I promise you, they're not as old-fashioned-smelling as you think. Jovan Musk in particular: Based on a long-ago memory, I thought that this smelled like a sweaty taxicab. But I recently got a bottle, and it's not like that at all. It's warm, sexy, and very, very light —not overpowering like it was in my memory. I've been wearing it regularly ever since.
- Don't be a snob. The same perfumers who create blockbuster scents for celebs like Justin Bieber, Halle Berry, and Lady Gaga also create amazing fragrances for high-end companies like Bulgari, Marc Jacobs, and Tom Ford. You may not love the Biebs's music, but thanks to the perfumer, his fragrances are worth a spritz.
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