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Building a fragrance collection is both fun and also complicated.
How to navigate the myriad scents on the market when there are simply so many from which to choose?
And what’s the best way to settle on a signature scent?
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Meet the Experts
Keep reading for expert tips on how to build a fragrance collection.
Subsequently, they’re more expensive.
EDTs are usually less expensive than EDPs.
“For natural fragrances, I would recommend an EDP,” advises Little.
With synthetic-aroma chemicals, I love an EDT.
I find synthetic-aroma chemicals to be very overbearing and at times just too much.
EDTs are far less concentrated and therefore easier to wear and less headache-inducing."
Sivrican agrees that it’s nice to have both EDP and EDT options when building a fragrance wardrobe.
Below, Tanis explains:
Top notes are the first scent you smell when the fragrance is exposed.
Middle notes give the fragrance character and intensity.
Base notes ground and balance the fragrance, providing depth to the fragrance.
The composition is made up of notes or ingredients that unite the scent."
Trust Your Intuition
Finding yoursignature scentis truly a subjective experience.
To begin, Little suggests doing a little scent-oriented self-inventory.
The perfumer encourages people to conceive of fragrance as “personalities.”
So, how do you best understand fragrance personalities?
It all comes down to how a scent makes you feel.
Sivrican says, “It can be interesting to wear different scents on different parts of your body.”
One major consideration is how the fragrance line was created.
The Kurkdjian fragrances are meant to be worn on their own."
In the end, it’s up to the individual wearer to decide.
Modern men and women desire an olfactive or fragrance wardrobe, rather than one fragrance."
Sivrican suggests you buy a “new fragrance whenever you’re traveling somewhere different.
You’ll always remember the place and time you visited whenever you smell it.”
Whenever possible, sample it if the brand offers it," she says.
