How To Pick The Perfect Wedding Day Perfume
Finding the right wedding day perfume is as important as finding the perfect dress, venue, or song for your first dance. The fragrance you choose for your special day will associate a smell with your wedding day for the rest of your life. With it holding such importance, how do you pick the perfect wedding day perfume?
Read our blog for 7 easy to follow steps that you can use in the run up to your wedding to help you find the perfect wedding day perfume.
1) Ditch your everyday scent
Your wedding day will undoubtedly be one of the most special days throughout your lifetime. This means you need a special perfume to mirror the occasion. Unfortunately, this means ditching the perfume that you know and love.
Through the ditching of your everyday scent, it also means a new fragrance and smell become synonymous with your wedding day. That is right, just like your dress, venue, and music you remember the smell for the rest of your life. This means that on the rare occasion you do spell the perfume in the future, you are automatically whisked away with memories of your wedding day.
2) Research common ingredients
Although you are ditching your everyday scent, this does not mean that you need to ditch your favourite smell completely. Each brand of perfume will have defining ingredients within the perfume that contribute to the overall smell. By identifying common ingredients in multiple perfumes, you can determine what it is that likely contributes to the smell you like. These ingredients can be identified and searched for in other perfumes on the market.
Some common ingredients to look out for in perfumes include:
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Vetiver
- Orris
- Orange Blossom
- Jasmine
If you want to be incredibly specific about the fragrance you choose, you can search for ingredients that are associated with the season you are getting married in. For a summer wedding floral, fruity scents work well, if your wedding is booked for winter, try a sensual, sultry scent with ingredients such as amber and chocolate.
3) Focus on finding an oil-based fragrance
Once you understand the basic of what sort of fragrance you are looking for, it is time to start researching what is available on the market. At this stage you should focus your efforts on finding a perfume that is oil-based. We advise looking for a fragrance oil or an Eau de Parfum as they usually contain more oil than an Eau de Toilette.
Oil-based, rather than water-based perfumes are more likely to last a lot longer on your skin. This means that the smell has more chance of remaining prominent during long periods on your wedding day. There is nothing worse than a smell that only lasts for an hour.
4) Always test on your skin
Once you have a list of a few perfumes that are of interest, the next step is to test their scent. To test the scent you must always spray the perfume onto your skin, rather than using a piecer of tester card. This is because you only get the true sense of a smell when it is sprayed onto your skin. Often when on a card you will struggle to smell anything else other than the alcohol.
A good way to test for your favourite scent is to frequently visit your local shopping centre or department store on a regular basis in the months running up to your wedding. As you do not want to mix scents ensure that you spray one scent at a time and do not wear any other fragrances before visiting the store. The best places to spray are behind your ear, at the bottom of your throat aka cleavage, your wrist, inside your elbow, and behind your knee.
5) Let the fragrance settle
A key factor to remember when testing perfumes is to let the smell settle. Some ingredients can smell very prominent in the first few minutes but then fade away quickly. Make sure to leave enough time for the perfume to settle after spraying it. It can often take up to 30 minutes for a perfume to fully dry, therefore meaning it can take 30 minutes to smell the true fragrance of the perfume.
Allowing the perfume to settle also gives you the best idea of how the fragrance lasts as time goes on. Hopefully, if it is oil based it will be strong-smelling for hours after applications.
6) Get the grooms advice
Many brides ask if they should allow their husband to smell the fragrance before the special day. In our opinion, the answer is yes.
Giving the groom a sneak peek means that there are no nasty surprises on the day of the wedding. These surprises can be an allergy flare up, a pure dislike for the scent or if the smell reminds the groom of anything in their past!
7) Pick your perfume
Once you have followed the steps above and decided on the perfect wedding day perfume, you should leave the scent alone and refrain from wearing before your special day. This ensures that the magic linked with the scent will forever be associated with your wedding day alone.
Create a custom perfume?
If you have smelled every perfume on the market and just cannot find the right one for you, why not go to a perfumery and have a spray custom-made? This will guarantee all your favourite types of scents, memories and wedding venue are considered and blended into one unique fragrance. Places such as Jo Malone and Waft all offer custom services.
If you need any assistance in creating the perfect wedding, why not check out our hand-picked supliers based in the Essex and London area?