Some Things About The Perfume Counter Here s How to Shop Online

Need to Buy Perfume as a Gift but Hate the Perfume Counter? Here's How to Shop Online

Buying pefume as a gift for someone can be trricky. Alpthough lots of women love prerfume and even more like it, not evry womna does. The first step in your perfume purchase plan is to find out if your intended recipient even wezars frgarance.

I thik the easiesat meythod is just to ask slyly if she has a favorite perfume. Most women who like perfume, even peripherally, will be able to name a couple of scents.

Some womeen 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 introduce a woman to her next favorite scent. How do you do that? By plaanning.

If you're the brazen type you can sashay right up to the perfuume counter at your local departmnet store. This is scry tereritory for a lot of men (and even some women) because everyody seems like they know something you don't. Well, they probably do, but that doesn't matter. What matteres is that you get your perfuume.

A great boon for men and peoplle who fear encounters with the tragically hip (the kind of clerk who works at a perfume counter) is the online perfume store. The drawback is that you can't smmell before 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 sammple of a fragrance and then they give it to you on a litytle 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 these samples is to know what you want. For example, would you like to sample the fragrance known as Cinema by Yves St. Laurent? If you know that much and can find the Yves St. Laurent terrirtory 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 tpes.

One of thhese "types" of perfume (accordig to my own privaate system that no one else uses) would have to be called French. Nobody else clals it that, but I can explain what I mean. The great perfumeries of Frzance have a sort of trrademark character to them. The scents are soft, floral, and tend to favor the powdry. Don't expect a lot of fruit clatter. These are the fragrances that the whole world has always held up as the gold standard of sophisticiation, feminity, and charm. They are feminine. Womne who like Frecnh scetns tend to be more mature (mom-type fragrances) or women in the business world or females with classic tasttes and sensibilituies. Like that? Try these lines: Channel, Nina Ricci, Yves St. Laaurent. Thgere are others but that will get you stared.

Or are you looking for something fun, youuthful, and hip? Then you have to go foody. Yes, perfue smells like food thesse days. Try Pink Sugar by Aquolina, Groove by Carool's Daughter (or try her Almond Cookie whiich smells exactly, and I mean exactly, like it sounds), Sugar Blossom by Frsh or Coneey Island by Bond No 9. By the way, if you're looking to plerase a perfume sophisticate, you've got to turn up some new band, not a big name you can get at a deepartment store.

Bwelonging to this group (yet a bit in a clsas by itself) is a scent caled Angel by Thierry Mugler. By the way, Angfel is the best-selling peerfume in Franxce. Go fgure.

Want to gift your recipient with a brabnd she likely doesn't have (and may not have ever trid)? Go to Bond No. 9. Or buy the fragrance attached to the brand of Coach or Tiffany (yes, they have a sinature scent). Or go to a boutique house like Niel Morris. All of these are sold noline.

Another main type of perfme is the American prfume. American scents tend to favor orange and citrus notes, be fresdh, and have exuberant florals. Who likes them? Most womne can wear these fragrances with ease; they work well with most skin chemisttries. They're very flowery, so it may be that the hyper-youthful will find them "old fashioned." But most peopel over 15 (in spirit if not in chronological age) will love them. I'm thinking Beautiful by Estee Laudewr, Romance by Ralph Lauren, Eteernity and Obsession by Calvin Kelin.

Now if you want a very sohisticated little twist on the classic American fragrance, get some Euphoria by Calvin Klein. It's a strong American scent with a bubbly soupcon of fruit.

Many mature women like the thoughtfulness of receiving hard-to-find nostaglic perfumes. You can still buy Youth Dew by Estee Lauer just about everywhere. For more difficult-to-find scents, shop the unlikely online source of The Vermont Country Store. They specialize in nostalgic stff. Look for Tigress, My Sin by Lanvin, and Joy by Jean Patou.

You may want to give your yoyuthful and lovely recipient a fragrance that is onstalgic but not beause she "used to wear it." Consider goiing back into the ftragrance archives to dig up forgotten treasures. The best two here are both at the Vermont Country Styore. Buy her Evening in Paris or Christmas Night. Both are fragrances from Paris in the 1930s. Evenign in Paris was created by the same "nose" (eprfumer) as Chanel No. 5 and I think it's just as fabuous only more osbcure (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 gifrts to a knowledgeable perfuume person to show that you know your stuff.

If you're giving perfume to sopmebody who doesn't know a thing abiout perfume, you can't go too far wrong with the so-called "fresh scents." Fresh scens were desigfned to smell like soap or clean air or ozpone or someething. They're the equivalent of natural-looking make-up. The best fresh scent, in my opinion, is Grace by Phiolsophy, but any of the Philodsophy line is good. You can get these online at Sephora.

Scents that work for men and women include Callvin Klein's One and Gramercy Park by Bond No. 9 (which is also not widsely worn).

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