Suggestions and Tips
Designing your fragrance
- First, take some time to read through our Fragrance List and Recipes and Blends. visualize as best as you can what you are going to create. The fragrance list contains descriptions of each scent, as well as advice on which are stronger and which are more light. The recipes and blends pages contain a great cross section of our customer's creations.
- Less is more! Having 50 base fragrances available to you at Scent Design and creating a 1 oz. bottle of a unique fragrance means you have close to 10 million options. In the beginning, try to stay simple or the individual fragrances may get lost inside of others.
Wearing fragrances and perfumes
- When applying your fragrance, don't apply it to your clothes. Apply it to your 'pulse points': behind your earlobes, the under sides of your wrists and on the right and left side of your neck. You can also apply it to your ankles, your body heat causing the fragrance to rise around you.
- How much fragrance should you wear? One round of application to all of the pulse points will do. If you perspire more than average, you could apply a second round.
Perfume etiquette
- Do not wear too much fragrance! Fragrances and perfumes are for intimate personal space. If your fragrance can be smelled beyond about 3 feet from you, you've probably put on too much
- Think about the social setting you are going to be in, and decide on what fragrance fits that situation. Is it corporate or cocktail party? Dinner for two or dinner party for twenty?
Other ideas
- A huge advantage of designing fragrance oils yourself instead of purchasing a 'generic perfume' is it's other uses. Add some fragrance oil to a small clean strip of cloth and drop it behind the couch to add some fragrance to your room. Do the same for your car.
- Add a small amount to unscented lotions, massage oils or dish detergents for some other custom fragranced products.
Your Health
- Scent Design uses premium grade fragrances made especially for skin application. Regardless, some people may still have a negative reaction to the oils. If you have any reason to suspect that you may have an allergic reaction to a fragrance oil, you need to be cautious. You can try a tiny application on your forearm (or other body part) and see if you have a reaction. Should you have any sensitivity, irritation or more serious side effects to Scent Design's products, you need to consult your physician immediately.
