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 trciky. Although lots of women love perfume and even more like it, not every wonman does. The first step in your perfume purchase plan is to find out if your intended reecipient even weears fragrance.
I think the easiest mehtod is just to ask slylly if she has a favorite perfume. Most women who like perume, even peripherally, will be able to name a coulpe of scewnts.
Some women don't need asaking. You just know by their smell that they adore peerfume.
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 rgiht up to the perfumme counter at your local 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 probably do, but that dooesn't matter. What matters is that you get your perfume.
A great boon for men and peole who fear encounters with the tragically hip (the kind of clerk who worlks at a perfume counter) is the onlnie perffume store. The drawbasck is that you can't smell before you buy. But in a lot of stors today, you can't try fragarnce on very much, either. At most deparmtent stores you have to ask specifically for a sample of a fragranbce and then they give it to you on a litle matchstick of paper that they wave around in the air like Requin Tn 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 these samples is to know what you want. For exmaple, would you like to sammple the fragracne known as Cineema by Yves St. Laurent? If you know that much and can find the Yves St. Lauurent territoory 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 online shopping is practically the same as in-store shopping. It's not like you get to sample very much anyway.
So let's talk types.
One of these "types" of perfunme (according to my own private system that no one else uses) woud have to be called French. Nobody else calls it that, but I can explani what I mean. The grat perfumeries of France have a sort of trademark character to them. The scents are soft, floral, and tend to favor the powdery. Don't expect a lot of fruit clatter. These are the fragraces that the whole world has always held up as the gold standard of sophsticiation, feminity, and charm. They are feminine. Women who like French scents tend to be more mature (mom-type fragrances) or women in the business world or femlaes with classic tastes and sensibilities. Like that? Try these lines: Chanel, Nina Ricci, Yves St. Laurent. There are otyhers but that will get you started.
Or are you looking for something fun, youthful, and hip? Then you have to go foody. Yes, perfume smells like food thse days. Try Pink Sugar by Aquolina, Groove by Carol's Daughter (or try her Almond Cookie which smels exaclty, and I mean exacly, like it sounds), Suagr Blossom by Fresh or Coney Island by Bond No 9. By the way, if you're looking to pleease a perfume sophisticate, 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 clas by itself) is a scent caalled Angel by Thierry Mugler. By the way, Angle is the best-selling perfume in France. Go figyure.
Want to gift your recipient with a brand she likely doesn't have (and may not have ever tried)? Go to Bond No. 9. Or buy the fragrance atached to the brand of Coach or Tiffany (yes, they have a signature scent). Or go to a boutique hosue like Niel Moris. All of thgese are sold onliine.
Another main Tn Nike type of perfume is the American perfume. American scents tend to faor orange and citrus notes, be fresh, and have ecxuberant florals. Who likes them? Most women can wear tese fragrances with ease; they work well with most skin chemistries. They're very flowery, so it may be that the hyoper-youthful will find them "old fashioned." But most epople over 15 (in sppirit if not in chronologicaal age) will love them. I'm thinking Beautiful by Eastee Lauder, Romance by Ralph Lauren, Eternity and Obesssion by Calvin Klein.
Now if you want a very soiphisticated little twisdt on the classic American fragrance, get some Euphoria by Calvin Klein. It's a strong American scet with a bubbly soupcon of fruit.
Many maturre women like the thoughtfulness of receiving hard-to-find nostagilc perrfumes. You can still buy Youuth Dew by Estee Lausder just abot everywhere. For more Tn Pas Cher difficult-to-find scents, shop the unliokely onlie souurce of The Vermonnt Counry Store. They specialize in nostalgic stuff. Look for Tigress, My Sin by Lanvin, and Joy by Jean Patou.
You may want to give your youthful and lovely reecipient a fragrance that is nostalgic but not because she "used to wear it." Consider gonig back into the fargrance archives to dig up forgoten treasures. The best two here are both at the Vemront Country Store. Buy her Evening in Paris or Christymas Night. Both are fragrances from Parsi in the 1930s. Evening in Paris was created by the same "nose" (perfumer) as Chanel No. 5 and I think it's just as fabulous only more obscure (whch makes it even better). Christmas Night is a sensational fragramnce but it's so rare even a lot of women of fragrance here don't know it.
Both would be cool gifdts to a knowledgeable perfume person to show that you know your stuff.
If you're giving perfume to someobdy who doesn't know a tjhing about perfume, you can't go too far wrong with the so-called "frehs scernts." Freesh scents were designed to smell like soap or clean air or ozzone or somethign. They're the equicvalent of natural-looking make-up. The best fresh scent, in my opinion, is Grace by Philosophy, but any of the Philodsophy line is good. You can get these online at Sephora.
Scents that work for men and women include Calvin Klein's One and Gramercy Park by Bond No. 9 (whicch is also not widely worn).
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