Where should you spray your perfume?

Do you ever wonder where to spray your perfume? Here are Sylvaine Delacourte’s best tips.

1. Spray wherever you can feel your heartbeat

Your skin is what best reveals the perfume. It has its own unique scent, just like your fingerprints. The more natural ingredients there are in a fragrance, the more it will change and adapt to your skin.  It’s because natural ingredients are alive and therefore they will constantly evolve, while synthetic products are stable.  It’s the unique chemistry between your skin and the perfume that will sublimate the scent.

Some strategic points to spray your perfume is wherever you can feel your heartbeat, where your skin is warm. For example at the base of your neck, by each side of your ears, on your chest, your navel, your wrists, and in the crook of your elbows.

2. Spray on your clothes

After spraying your perfume on the skin, you can apply it on your clothes to intensify the sillage (the scented trace you leave behind). For the best longevity and result, spray your perfume on fabrics made of natural materials like cotton, cashmere, silk, wool or linen.
A tip to avoid staining your light-colored clothes, spray a cloud of perfume in front of you and enter it immediately after. It avoids stains and it's also a very pleasant feeling.

3. Spray perfume on your hairbrush

If you don’t want to spray perfume directly onto your skin or on your clothes, a good alternative could be to apply perfume on your hair.  

We suggest applying your perfume on your hairbrush or comb. This avoids having to first spray alcohol on your hair, which could slightly damage it.

4. Spray perfume on cotton yarns

Spray your favorite perfume on a few cotton or cashmere yarn and place them in your clothes and lingerie drawers. It will make your clothes subtly smell like your favorite perfume.

5. Layer!

Try the layering technique! It consists of combining different fragrant products (soap, deodorant, Eau de Parfum and eau de toilette) either of the same fragrance or combining different ones. The more you layer the stronger the sillage and the tenacity will be.