Many people wear colognes and perfumes to complement their feelings and fashions. The nice thing about natural beauty is that, for the most part, these things aren't necessary. Still, some people prefer to wear something that makes them feel extra sexy or just for fun. Like make-up, the trick to wearing a scent for natural beauty is not to hide a personal smell, but to enhance it.
A look through the drug store's perfume display or a display at a department store is enough to get an idea of what most people find to be fashionable. While colognes such as Polo sport and Calvin Klein are made with essential oil, many of them also include synthetic materials that dampen their natural smells. If Polo Sport suits the look of an individual, then said person should go for it. However, there are less overwhelming smells that do much to compliment a person's natural scent and personal preferences.
The first way to compliment a natural scent is to bathe or shower using a hair wash, shower gel, or lotion that includes some natural extracts. Women often prefer florals and fruit extracts while men often prefer woodier scents. Remember that smells are never gender specific, so find that one that best suits your personal chemistry. Another perfume free option is to use laundry detergent with similar extracts or hang clothing in a closet freshened by the scent of dried flowers or something similar. There's often the question of cologne, and cologne certainly deserves a serious look because it just might be the very thing that gets the girl or guy or even the new job.
The sense of smell is powerful because of its primal nature. In other words, we react to a smell before we realize it's in the room. Herbalists and fragrance makers know this, so many fragrance formulas are made with ingredients meant to trigger some reaction by either the person wearing it or people in their general vicinity. An example is rose. Rose is a calming scent that can induce sleep or reduce anxiety while vanilla is a scent meant to arouse someone sexually. Therefore, find the fragrance that does what you want it to do. However, there's an even more important issue at hand. The smell must not only do what you want it to do, but it must also blend with your chemistry. Some people put on floral fragrances and smell wonderful while others stink. Therefore, try before you buy. If the opportunity presents itself, try a scent free pheromone formula to get a better idea of what your natural scent is like. Pheromones are hormones that attract the other sex by enhancing one's personal fragrance. Just like perfumes, we all have fragrances that are fruity, floral, woody, or spicy. Wearing the right perfume will enhance that smell rather than take from it. Fragrances are available in oil forms that are pure essential oils mixed with carrier oil for the safety of the skin. They're also available in sprays or in dry solids that are rubbed on the body. Again, try before you buy.
Remember that smell is an important part of how you present yourself. Whether you're thinking about it or not, you're being affected by what other people are wearing. So, pick the fragrance that best enhances your natural beauty by adding an extra kick to your personal scent.
1. Fresh Air
Fresh air sums up all the smells I like: rain, earth, flowers, pines trees (Piney wood east Texan here), meadows full of Indian paintbrush and black-eyed Susans, blue sky, among other things. I love being outside. I love the woods. I love evenings and mornings, cool afternoons, moonlight lit nights. Dog wood blossoms, turning leaves; it's all of it together that makes 'fresh air'. There is just something really special about going outside in the morning, taking the time to look around you and breathe in fresh air. In a stuffy room in your classroom for one hour? I love the feeling when getting out of stinky hot and stuffy areas then walking out into the nice cool breeze and just smelling, well, fresh air!
What kind of single celled organism used the last of their brain power to say a can of gasoline smells better that fresh air.
2. Freshly Cut Grass
Grass being cut in the summer is without question the smell that brings out the simple innocent days of summer vacation between 5th and 6th grades. Pull on my PF Flyers and I could run faster through the grass and jump higher over the mulch. Oops did I give my age away. Those were the summers that seem to be remembered but lost with the absence of kids today not venturing out from the inside comforts of ipads and video games. Come on parents shove their kids outside after you mow the lawn. This was in fact the one of the smells that Hermione loved the most, from the love potion in Half Blood Prince. Just love it, especially after the rain. Sorry to the guys that like it...but I have allergies around cut grass...it's a good smell till I sneeze to death! SORRY!
One of the best summer smells, for sure. Reminds me of my childhood.
3. Rain
Do you remember when you're walking along, outside and alone, and the only thing to keep you company is the dew drops on the flowers and trees? Come one, I mean, the smell of wet soil? There's nothing better. It's refreshing and natural and makes me go AH. Sigh.
Rain is definitely best. I have been able to smell rain before it hits all my life, my grandpa got me into storms when I was very young. I get peace from a storm, I've chased a few tornadoes but the speed limits around here go from 55 down to 25 in less than a city block.
One of those amazing smells, after a long hot week and finally you start to smell the rain in the air, that smell of soil in the air and you know it is coming. And then finally a beautiful shower to cool you down after a long, hard, hot week. It's actually the absence of everyday smells that we've become so accustomed to that we don't notice them, it's why it's a refreshing smell. I always describe it as the scent incarnation of reset because it smells like the world is resetting itself
4. Coffee
I don't even have to drink it. The smell is enough to energize me. If I could, almost everything in my house would be coffee scented. I love Coffee Ice cream, the smell is good, but the taste I don't really like that much. I think I will like Coffee later, though, as I grow into an adult.
I always make my mum a coffee each morning and in fact I've drank coffee even though I wasn't meant to because I was too young. If I could I'd have a jar of coffee beans next to me at all times, saying I LOVE coffee is an understatement. The smell of good coffee brewing in the morning while still in bed. I just lie there with my eyes closed, breathing deeply through my nose.
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