How To Remove Perfume Smell From Clothes

Spraying perfume on clothes is one of the best ways to have your perfume last. Perfume lingers on fabric much longer than it does on skin, giving you a much more powerful fragrance experience.  However, sometimes that experience can last too long. And the scent of old perfume on your clothes, mingled with your sweat…

What Ingredients Make Perfumes Last?

Ever wondered why some perfumes last a long time, and some don’t? And what are the ingredients that make perfumes last?  The ingredients that make fragrance last are known as fixatives. Fixatives can be natural, heavy base notes like vanilla, sandalwood, and resins, or aroma chemicals such as ambroxan, javanol, and galaxolide. They can significantly…

How To Remove Perfume Stains

Imagine: you’ve just dolled yourself up and are dressed to the nines in your finest white gown. Wanting to add the touche finale to your elegant ensemble, and having read on the Scent Apprentice that spraying on clothes is a great way to increase a fragrance’s longevity, you add a few choice spritzes of perfume…

How To Remove Perfume Smells From Your Car

Testing perfume in your car can be somewhat of a risky proposition.  I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve gone on a perfume testing binge in Neiman Marcus or Saks and come back to my car with a veritable smorgasbord of test strips and sample vials. I kept them hoarded covetously for…

How To Remove Perfume Odor In a Room

We’ve all been there:  You’re spraying on your perfume, overdid it, and now the smell won’t go away. Maybe you’ve been testing a lot of different perfumes and the smell is giving you a headache. Or, in the worst case, you dropped and broke your prized bottle of luxury perfume and flooded your room with…

How To Remove Perfume From Your Skin

Sometimes, a perfume might just not be doing it for you.  Maybe you sprayed on way too much right before an important meeting or a hot date. Maybe it’s too long-lasting and you just want it off of skin and out of mind. Or maybe the fragrance you just applied smells downright awful and you…

What Are Fabric Perfumes?

Fabric perfumes and sprays are increasingly popular these days, with several brands releasing luxury fabric sprays, pillow sprays, and scented sachets.  But what exactly are fabric perfumes? And how do you use them?  As the name implies, fabric perfumes are perfumes designed to be used on fabrics, such as clothes, linens, shoes, towels, and car…

Why Are There Coffee Beans In Perfume Stores?

Coffee beans at the perfume counter?  You’ve probably seen them at just about any Sephora, Ulta, or department store fragrance counter you can imagine. Look closely, and you’ll see, nestled amongst the glamorous bottles of Chanel No. 5 and Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male, little jars – the same jars that you might find full…

Why Are Some Perfumes Called “Eau de Toilette”?

So, let’s talk turkey: “eau de toilette”.  How do you even say that, anyway? Is that a foreign language? Toilet? What in tarnation?  Don’t worry: it has nothing to do with the toilet you do your business in.  “Eau de toilette”, meaning “toilet water” in French, is a common term in perfumery. It refers to…

What Perfumes Did Hippies Wear?

Ah, hippies.  These free-spirited, eccentrically dressed youngsters (now in their 70s), were once infamous for their powerful odor.  But what perfumes did the hippies wear? And if one were inclined to smell like a hippie in this day and age, how would one go about it? Hippies were more famous for their lack of bathing…