Researchers believe that no two humans smell the same. That being said, the saga of perfumes dates back to being largely used in Middle East, Rome and Egypt. The following guidelines should help to make shopping a lot easier and interesting the next time you shop for perfumes, be it for yourself or for your loved ones.

Have a fair idea on what you are looking for before hitting a mall as you are only likely to end up confused with hundreds if not thousands of choices available. Then again, a perfume smelling good on one person would not necessarily smell the same on another owning to the interaction between the fragrance and the body emitting a unique smell derived from the body chemistry. Thus, the body chemistry plays a vital role in deciding on the perfume. Likewise, a perfume smelling good on a test strip may not necessarily smell the same on you.

Women are believed to make better choices when it comes to perfumes as opposed to men. The fragrance is at its best when dabbed on pressure points like behind ears, wrists, inside elbows, bra cleavages making the aroma to linger continuously. Perfumes work better on oily skin as against dry skin. In short, the effect lasts longer with the scented oils and concentration being stronger and heavy.

The thumb rule and the most important of all when it comes to deciding on a perfume is never try smelling it right out of the bottle. Although, that is the basic instinct that one cannot get away with and you eventually end doing just that. But then you will be extremely disappointed to know that smelling it right from the bottle is nowhere near how it is going to be after it interacts with your skin. People associated with perfumes for a very long time in life would know this phenomenon called "top notes." The particles that come out with the first few squirts are the top notes and eventually die in about 1 to 4 minutes. You get to smell the real fragrance after this 4-minute period known as "dry down." The dry down phenomenon is nothing but the time the perfume stays on your skin and dries out making the top notes to disappear. Now this is how the perfume is going to smell like for the period it stays on your skin.

Likewise, be a professional when testing perfumes. Do not let the salesperson hasten you and influence your choice. This is how you go about it, insist on spraying the perfumes into test strips. Again, do not smell the paper, gently fan it in the air letting it dry down and then try catching the smell of it. Again, do not test too many perfumes at a time lest you become a victim of what is known as nose fatigue.

Finally, do not blur your nostrils trying to catch the scent of anything and everything that comes your way. So know what exactly are your looking for and save yourselves from the torture of having to smell almost every perfume in the rack.

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