⊛ learn · lesson 4
how to try a perfume
paper or skin, and why to wait
paper and skin.
a paper strip gives a neutral first read. but skin can change a perfume, so test it on you too.
where to spray.
one former guerlain creative director names the hollow of the wrists and the elbows among the classic spots.
to rub or not to rub.
warm skin makes the first notes leave faster. in one informal test, a perfume writer found that colleagues noticed no big change. that is one perfume, not proof. there is no single right way.
wait before you decide.
the base takes time to come through. smell it again later, and if you can, come back the next day before you buy.
you stop noticing.
after smelling the same thing for a while you notice it less, and the sense comes back with a break. so try only a few at a time.
true or not?
tap each one.