The perfumer's secret with which I get the smell of my perfume to last longer on my skin

It has always obsessed me that the smell of my perfume lasts all day on my skin. I love to feel that the hours go by and the aroma is still there. But it is not an easy thing. And it doesn't always depend on the perfume itself. You can wear the best perfume in the world and the smell will be gone in a matter of hours. Hence, she fervently experimented with the French trick of perfuming her hair. Lolita Lempicka told us about it a long time ago and I burned it into my memory. "I like to perfume my hair because the smell stays longer. And because when they kiss me they can smell my perfume," he said, confirming the words of other experts who also say that hair is one of the areas of our body that best preserves the smell of a perfume.

And no, it is not about denying this trick. Not much less. But there is another that is equally or more effective. I have been practicing it since Irati Herrero, creator of the Me Mi Mo Lab Olfactory Laboratory, insisted that the best trick to make the smell of a perfume last is to "apply it to hydrated skin. That is why I recommend using a neutral body cream, without fragrance , and then apply the perfume to the area of ​​the skin that we want. In this way, we can also make the fragrance last longer on our skin," said the expert. His words reminded me of another perfume expert, Daniel Figuero, Dior's International Fragrance Ambassador, who told me that "to go fully dressed in fragrance, it's best to apply the scented cream from your perfume's bath line and then a few drops of perfume," he said.

So merging both tricks, I have started to put on an odorless moisturizing body cream –I usually opt for the mythical Ceravé, although I have read that there are people who version this trick directly with Vaseline in the areas where they are going to put the perfume– . And then, before getting dressed, I spray my perfume. I apply it to the wrists, behind the knees, earlobes, neck, and solar plexus (the area of ​​the abdomen where the ribs end). And I have allowed myself the license to mix this trick with another inspired by Hubert de Givenchy, Audrey Hepburn and Ines de la Fressange. Let me explain: Hubert vaporized the perfume that he created for Audrey in a handkerchief – he left it forgotten in his sewing workshop and everyone could smell it. And Ines de la Fressange said that she always applied her perfume on her handkerchiefs so that the smell was more intense. "I guess it's because I saw my grandmother do it that way," he told Into the Gloss in an interview. In fact, in my obsession with perfume lasting and lasting, if I'm not going to wear a scarf, I reinvent this trick and even put it on underwear before putting it on.Obsession also sharpens wit.