Monday, April 8, 2013

3 Tips for Buying Great Inexpensive Perfume



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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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