Choose a perfume

Choosing a perfume is like picking an olfactory identity for yourself or for someone else. We do not choose a perfume randomly. There are several criterias that should be considered such as the occasion, your personality, the season, etc. Here are Sylvaine Delacourte’s tips to help you to choose the right perfume.

How to choose a perfume according to the occasion

For a gift

Deciding to offer a perfume as a gift is delicate because you need to know the person’s tastes. Either you know the fragrance they are faithful to or you decided to give them something new. In any case, offering a perfume as a gift is a great idea, but you must conduct a small investigation beforehand in order to really please the person concerned.

Offer an eau de toilette or an eau de parfum
Offer the perfume or a derivative of the fragrance
Offer a perfume for Mother's Day or Father's Day
Offer a perfume for a birthday

For a wedding

It is your wedding day, what perfume will be worn for THE big day?

The choice of the fragrance for your wedding is very important. Its purpose, as always, is to reflect your personality and your olfactory identity.
This is your signature, and all your life you will remember the perfume you wore on your wedding day. Victor Hugo knew it well, "Nothing awakens a memory like a scent".

For a date

To choose a perfume for a date, you must first know yourself. Some people hide behind a perfume or want to acquire a personality that is not their own.

A perfume which will have the power to seduce should be consistent with the person, it must not hide it, not try to pass it off as another person.

To engage with a perfume is above all to be sincere and authentic, to be yourself. A perfume should tell the story of that person.

If you feel good about yourself and your scent, then the power of attraction will be infallible.

Where to buy a perfume?

You can buy your perfume either in store or on the internet.

At the store

There are several choices now:

In department stores: Printemps, Galeries Lafayette, Sephora, Marionnaud.
In traditional multi-brand perfumeries, rather with a choice of international perfume brands.
In perfumeries that only offer confidential or so-called “niche” brands.

On the Internet

Here are several types of stores from which you can order perfume online:

On the websites of major brands such as Sephora
On the websites of traditional and confidential perfumeries
On the brand's website such as Chanel, Guerlain or Dior
Whenever possible, on the website of confidential brands like Sylvaine Delacourte

Choose a fragrance according to the seasons

We are talking about "signature" perfume or "olfactory slogan" when a person is faithful to the same perfume and wears it all year round, whatever the season. On the other hand, other people will be more sensitive to the changes of seasons and will adapt their perfume according to the climatic conditions. This is very common in European countries or in Canada where the seasons are particularly marked.

Choose a fragrance by gender and age

Choosing a perfume is delicate, a perfume is not like clothing, it is less superficial than you think. It is really an extension of personality. The perfume adds to who you are, it is the olfactory slogan and signature of a person.

Children choose a perfume simply because the scents attract them. Teenagers will sometimes choose a fragrance to identify with a celebrity or to match with their circle of friends, or to follow a fashion. For babies, it is the parents who choose the fragrance.

Other ways to choose a fragrance

The scent, when it is well chosen, is like a second skin. Its notes change, among other things, according to the pH of the epidermis. We do not know in advance how a perfume will evolve. It can suit you very well and if you often receive compliments, it is usually an excellent sign as it proves that you have found the right one!

By skin type

Many criteria are taken into account:

skin ph
activity
food
medication
diseases
hair color

By personaliy

This classification is the result of a study on customer behavior regarding fragrance purchases. It is the fruit of long-term observation of perfume buyers.

Depending on age

Among the many parameters that should be considered when choosing a fragrance (personality, taste, style...), the age can already give some indications on the fragrances to be favored. The perfume echoing your personality, it needs to evolve at the same pace as you, and to adapt it according to your stage of life.

By your fashion style

Sometimes fashion and perfume echo each other, you can change your look depending on the day and evening. Logic would suggest that the scents of the day, generally associated with a work look, would be lighter and would not disturb those around you. A more sophisticated evening look would require a more noticeable and diffusive fragrance.

By notes

When choosing a perfume, many factors come into play, some choose their perfume based on advertising, others by attraction to the bottle, or for a particular brand. The customer who chooses his perfume by notes is an informed customer.

If he is even more educated and knowledgeable, he will be eager to learn more and will be able to search for specific notes:

Once the perfume has been chosen, how to spray your perfume?

You have made it, you have chosen your perfume (perhaps one of Sylvaine Delacourte's Collections), and you now want to know how to spray your perfume, how to make it long lasting or how to store it. Discover our dedicated articles.

Where to apply your perfume?

They say that one "wears" a perfume. But when you think about it, isn't it also the perfume wearing us? Let's start with a little terminology before discovering different methods and tips on how to properly apply your perfume so that it becomes your best ally (cf. Testing a perfume, How to preserve your perfume?).

Differences between tenacity and wake
Skin and perfume alchemy
How to choose your perfume ?
Where to apply the perfume? Eight strategic points
Perfume your clothes
Tips to perfect the wake

Keep your perfume

You found your perfume. It is your perfumed slogan, your olfactory identity (cf. Testing a perfume, Choose a perfume for a gift, Choose a perfume for a wedding), it translates your personality and leaves you in the memory of those you meet. In order for your perfume to accompany you all day and night, you need to keep it in optimal conditions.

Its conservation
Its application
Importance of well hydrated and nourished skin
Tenacity and olfactory families
Alchemy skin and perfume
I no longer smell my perfume
Addiction

How frequently?

Everything will depend:

on the olfactory family: a citrus fragrance will last less than a woody or oriental fragrance, in this case it will be necessary to spray it several times a day.
on the concentration: cologne, fresh water, toilet water, perfume, extract.
on more or less perfect orchestration by the perfumer.

How to keep your perfume?

Your perfume is your intimate ally, you have chosen it and the chemistry has taken place! Like you, it is complex, evolving and ever changing. Even if it gives you confidence, it remains an ally needing of taking care of.

What makes the complexity of a perfume?

How to keep your perfume?
What about the extract?
Does the fragrance support travel?
Is there an expiration date?
How long does an eau de toilette or eau de parfum last?
Tips for better preserving your fragrance

Sylvaine Delacourte fragrances

Discover Sylvaine Delacourte's brand with her Orange Blossom, Musks and Vanilla Collections. You can try them thanks to the Discovery Boxes (5 Eaux de Parfum x 2 ml) and rediscover these raw materials as you have never smelled them before.