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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…

Do Pheromone Perfumes Really Work?

Let’s talk turkey: pheromone perfumes.  You might’ve seen them advertised on Instagram or Youtube. With titillating appellations like “Pure Instinct”, “SexyLife”, “AlphaQ”, “RawChemistry”, and “Pherazone”, these products claim that once you wear them, you’ll be practically swatting the women (or men, though mostly women) away like flies.  But do pheromone perfumes actually work?  The science…

11 Perfumes That Will Make You Smell Rich

Money, money, money.  Like it or not, money runs the world. As such, emulating the rich and famous, from the clothes they wear, the cars they drive, and yes, the perfumes they use, is something that will never go out of style.  Of course, rich people are just people. And just like everyone else, some…

What It Means When You Smell Perfume Out of Nowhere

Smelling perfume or other odors out of nowhere when there’s no one around?  Don’t panic just yet, but you might have reason to be concerned.   Smelling odors out of nowhere might be a sign of phantosmia. Phantosmia is a condition which causes “olfactory hallucinations”, phantom smells. It could be a result of a previous incident,…

What Was the First Celebrity Perfume?

Celebrity perfumes are all the rage these days. Almost everyone has had a crack at the whole perfume thing, from Ariana Grande (whose fragrance Cloud is actually pretty popular), Kim Kardashian, Michael Jordan, Lady Gaga, Bruce Willis, Anthony Hopkins, and even Donald Trump.  It makes sense why celebrities love to release perfumes – it’s a…