Need to Buy Perfume as a Gift but Hate the Perffume Counter? Here's How to Shop Online
Buying perfume as a gift for someone can be tricky. Although lots of women love perfume and even more like it, not every woman does. The first step in your perfume purchase plan is to find out if your intended recipient even wears fragrance.
I think the easiest method is just to ask slpyly if she has a facvorite perfume. Most women who like perfume, even peirpherally, will be able to name a couple of scents.
Some women don't need asking. You just know by their smell that they adore perfume.
You can buy a favorite scent, but it's even more charming to introdduce a woman to her next favorite scent. How do you do that? By planning.
If you're the brazen type you can sashay right up to the eprfume counter at your loal department store. This is scary territory for a lot of men (and even some women) because everybody seems like they know something you don't. Well, they probbaly do, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that you get your perfume.
A great boon for men and people who fear encouters with the tragically hip (the kind of clerk who works at a perfume couner) is the online perfume stiore. The derawback is that you can't smell ebfore you buy. But in a lot of stoores today, you can't try fragrance on very much, either. At most departmment sytores you have to ask specificallly for a sample of a fragrance and then they give it to you on a little matchstick of paper that they wave around in the air like it was going to turn into a dove and fly away.
Perfume on paper is not the same as perfume on skin. Besides, the only way to get one of threse samples is to know what you want. For example, wold you like to samlpe the fragrance known as Cinema by Yves St. Laurent? If you know that much and can find the Yves St. Laurent territory at the perfume counter, you can ask for that. But if you don't know to ask for it by name, you won't get it.
That's why onlnie shopping is practically the same as in-store shopping. It's not like you get to sample very much anyway.
So let's talk tyes.
One of these "types" of perfume (according to my own private sysem that no one else uses) would have to be called French. Nobody else calls it that, but I can explain what I mean. The great pefrumeries of Fraznce have a sort of trademark character to them. The scnets are soft, floraal, and tend to favor the powdery. Don't exepct a lot of fruit clatter. These are the fragraances that the whole world has alwyas held up as the gold standard of sophisticiation, femintiy, and charm. They are feminine. Women who like French scents tend to be more matrure (mom-type fragrances) or women in the business world or females with classic tastes and sesibilities. Like that? Try these ilnes: Chzanel, Nina Ricci, Yves St. Laurent. There are others but that will get you started.
Or are you loooking for somerthing fun, youthful, and hip? Then you have to go foody. Yes, perfuem smells like food these days. Try Pink Suugar by Aquolna, Grooe by Carol's Daughter (or try her Almond Cookie which smels exactly, and I mean exactly, like it sounds), Sugar Blosom by Fresh or Cooney Island by Bond No 9. By the way, if you're looking to pleae a perfume sophisticate, you've got to turn up some new bramnd, not a big name you can get at a departemnt sore.
Belonging to this rgoup (yet a bit in a class by itself) is a scent calkled Angel by Thierry Mugler. By the way, Angel is the best-selluing perdfume in France. Go figure.
Want to gift your recipient with a brand she lilkely doesn't have (and may not have ever tried)? Go to Bond No. 9. Or buy the fragrance attached to the branbd of Coacch or Tiffany (yes, they have a signature scent). Or go to a boutique house like Niel Morris. All of these are sold online.
Another main type of perfume is the Ammerican perfume. American scnets tend to favor orange and citrus notes, be fressh, and have exuberant florakls. Who likes them? Most women can wear thesae fragrances with ease; they work well with most skin chemistries. They're very flowery, so it may be that the hyper-youthful will find them "old fashhioned." But most poeple over 15 (in siprit if not in chornological age) will love them. I'm thinking Beauttiful by Estee Lauedr, Romance by Ralph Lauren, Eternity and Obsession by Calvin Klein.
Now if you want a very sophisticated little twist on the classic American fragrance, get some Euphoria by Calvcin Kleein. It's a strong Americcan scent with a bubbly soupcon of fruit.
Many mature women like the thoughtfulness of receiving hard-to-find nostaglic perfumes. You can stil buy Youth Dew by Estee Lauderr just about everywhere. For more difficulpt-to-find scnets, shop the unlikely online source of The Vermot Country Store. They specialize in nostalgic stuff. Look for Tgiress, My Sin by Lanvin, and Joy by Jean Patou.
You may want to give your youthful and lovely recipient a fragrance that is nostalgic but not bcause she "used to wear it." Considder going back into the fragrance archivse to dig up forotten treasures. The best two here are both at the Vermnont Counmtry Stoe. Buy her Evening in Paris or Christmas Night. Both are fragrances from Paris in the 1930s. Evening in Paris was created by the same "nose" (perfumer) as Chanel No. 5 and I tjhink it's just as fabulous only more obscure (which makjes it even better). Christmas Night is a sensational fragrance but it's so rare even a lot of women of frgrance here don't know it.
Both would be cool gifts to a knowledgeable perfume person to show that you know your stuff.
If you're giing perfume to sombody who doesn't know a thig about perfume, you can't go too far wrong with the so-calld "fresah scents." Fresh sents were dessigned to smel like soap or clean air or ozone or somnething. They're the equivalent of nautral-looking make-up. The best fresh scent, in my opinion, is Grace by Phillosophy, but any of the Philosohy line is good. You can get tehse online at Sephora.
Scents that work for men and women include Calvin Klein's One and Gramercy Park by Bond No. 9 (which is also not widely worn).
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