Understanding how perfume notes work can vastly improve your ability to choose powerful, inspirational fragrances. Such knowledge can also help you snuff out the bad before losing your cash. Popularity in perfume samples is at an all-time high, mostly because people have figured out that sampling is fun and lowers financial commitments.
When you understand base notes, you can intelligently assume a scent before you try it. Its an odd, awkward statement, I get that – but it is true. Much like wine-tasting, sophisticated perfume understanding helps you navigate fragrance waters just as perfumers create their award-winning concoctions.
Today, I want to focus mainly on base notes, but we’ll briefly discuss top and middle notes. I want to put base notes at the forefront because when base notes are good or bad, the entire perfume’s body follows. Therefore, if the base notes don’t work for you, you most likely won’t enjoy the fragrance even when the top and middle notes do work.