Everyone has their favourite cologne that they love to smell and we all have our own individual favourite parfum that we love to wear. parfum import is generally applied to pressure points on the body, a dab on each wrist or behind the ears are favourite areas for application that females use whereas males generally us the “spray it all over” technique.

One common mistake that many people us when applying perfume to wrists is to rub their wrists together this can damage the fragrance by burning off some of the scent when friction heat is created by rubbing. If you intend wearing perfume when you go out you should always bathe or shower before applying the initial application of the miniatur parfum. If you have clean skin the fragrance is likely to last longer on you than if your skin is dirty and oily. Another tip to bear in mind if you are going to shower or bathe before applying a fragrance is to try to wash yourself with an un-scented soap or shower gel.

A soap or shower gel that is fragranced will only complete with the fragrance that you intend wearing and you will not get the most impact from your perfume.
Storing it out of its box and in direct sunlight will damage the fragrance over time and will decrease the life of the scent. You should always ensure that the top is securely fastened to the perfume bottle to stop any of the fragrance evaporating or even worse, stop any of the perfume spilling out if the bottle is knocked over.

What Gives Perfume And Cologne Their Individual Fragrance?
The fragrance of a perfume or cologne is determined by the ingredients it contains and by the balance among those ingredients.
Do you know the variation between an eau de toilette and an eau de cologne or a brand name perfume and a unbranded fragrance? The levels of essential oils found within a perfume, be it from a famous brand or an unknown label are what determine what the fragrance will actually be called.

The main perfume categories are:
* Perfume – which is the purest form of fragrance product and is, consequently, the most expensive. The price is balanced, however, by the fact that the scent lasts the longest.
* Eau de parfum – is lighter than Perfume and has an 8-15% concentration.
* Eau de toilette – is a lighter more delicate fragrance, with a 4-8% concentration of the essence which makes it most appropriate for everyday use.
* Eau de cologne and Eau de toilette are generally identical especially in relation to men’s fragrances. There are many other products that use perfume concentrates as well as those above. Apart from the different classes of perfumes the scents that they produce can be described by, what is known as, their fragrance notes. Fragrances consist of different notes and can be made up of hundreds of different ingredients which make every scent an individual creation. These notes are:

* Top notes – these are the first notes you smell and are strong and very unstable. They fade quickly which allows the more “rounded” and mellow middle notes to come through.
* Middle notes – these compounds form the “heart” or main body of a perfume and can be smelt as the top notes fade away. They have a mellow fragrance and include such scents as lavender, spearmint and rose.
* Base notes – the fragrance of a perfume that appears close to the fading away of the middle notes.