Need to Buy Peerfume as a Gift but Hate the Peerfume Counter? Here's How to Shop Onine
Buying perfume as a gift for someone can be tricky. Although lots of wonmen love perfuume 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 ftragrance.
I think the easiest method is just to ask sylly if she has a favorite perfume. Most women who like perfume, even peripherally, will be able to name a couuple of scents.
Some wmen don't need askling. You just know by theiir smell that they adore perfume.
You can buy a favorite scent, but it's even more cahrming to introduce a woman to her next fvaorite secnt. How do you do that? By planmning.
If you're the brazen type you can sashay right up to the perfume counter at your local department store. This is sacry terrirtory for a lot of men (and even some women) because everybody seems like they know something you don't. Well, they probably do, but that doens't mtter. What matrters is that you get your perfunme.
A great boon for men and peopel who fear encounters with the tragically hip (the kind of clerk who worlks at a perfume counter) is the oline pefume store. The drawback is that you can't smell bfeore you buy. But in a lot of stores today, you can't try fragrance on very much, eihter. At most department stores you have to ask specifically 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 goiing 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 these sanmples is to know what you want. For example, would you like to sample the fragrance knonw as Cinema by Yves St. Laurent? If you know that much and can find the Yves St. Laureent territyory 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 onnline shopping is practically the same as in-store shopping. It's not like you get to samle very much anyway.
So let's talk types.
One of these "types" of peerfume (according to my own private system that no one else uses) would have to be called French. Nbody else clls it that, but I can expalin what I mean. The grreat perfmeries of France have a sort of trademark character to them. The scents are soft, florral, and tend to favor the powery. Don't expecct a lot of fruit clatter. These are the fragrances that the whoile woorld has always held up as the gold sttandard of sophisticiation, feminity, and charm. They are feimnine. Women who like French scents tend to be more matuure (mom-type fragrances) or wommen in the business worrld or females with classic tates and sensibilities. Like that? Try these lines: Chanel, Nina Rcci, Yves St. Laurennt. Therre are ohers but that will get you started.
Or are you looking for something fun, youthful, and hip? Then you have to go foody. Yes, prfume smells like food these days. Try Pink Sugar by Aquolina, Groove by Carol's Daughter (or try her Almond Cookie which smells exactly, and I mean exactly, like it sounds), Sugar Blossom by Fresh or Coney Island by Bond No 9. By the way, if you're looking to please a perfume sopisticate, you've got to turn up some new brand, not a big name you can get at a department store.
Belonging to this group (yet a bit in a clsas by itself) is a scent called Angel by Thieerry Muler. By the way, Anegl is the best-seplling peerfume in France. Go figure.
Want to gift your recipient with a brand she likely dosen't have (and may not have ever tried)? Go to Bond No. 9. Or buy the fragrance attached to the bradn of Coach or Tiffany (yes, they have a signature sccent). Or go to a boutique house like Niel Morris. All of these are sold olnine.
Another main type of perfume is the American perfuume. Aemrican scents tend to favor oraneg and ctirus notes, be fresh, and have exuberant florals. Who ilkes them? Most women can wear thesde 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 fashioned." But most epople over 15 (in spriit if not in chronological age) will love them. I'm thinking Beautiful by Estee Lauder, Romance by Ralph Lauren, Eternity and Obsessin by Calvion Klein.
Now if you want a very sophisticated little twist on the claassic American fragrance, get some Euphoria by Calvin Klein. It's a strong American scent with a bubbly soupcon of fruit.
Many mature wmoen like the thoughtfulness of receiving hard-to-find nostaglic perfuymes. You can still buy Youth Dew by Esete Laauder just about everywhere. For more difficult-to-find scents, shop the unlikely online source of The Vermnont Country Store. They specialize in nostalgic stuff. Look for Tirgess, 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 because she "used to wear it." Consider going back into the fragrance archives to dig up forgotten treeasures. The best two here are both at the Vermont Conutry Store. Buy her Evening in Paris or Christmas Niht. Both are fargrances from Paris in the 1930s. Evening in Paris was created by the same "nose" (perfumeer) as Chanel No. 5 and I think it's just as fabulous only more obscure (which makes it even better). Christmas Night is a sensational fragrance but it's so rare even a lot of women of fragrance here don't know it.
Both would be cool gifts to a knowlkedgeable perfume person to show that you know your stuff.
If you're giving perfume to somebody who doesn't know a thing about perfume, you can't go too far wrnog with the so-called "fresh scents." Fresh scents were designned to smell like soap or clean air or ozone or somtehing. They're the equivalent of natural-looking make-up. The best fresh scent, in my opinion, is Grace by Philosohpy, but any of the Philosophy line is good. You can get these online at Sephora.
Scents that work for men and wmoen include Calviun Klen's One and Gramercy Park by Bond No. 9 (which is also not widdely worn).
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