Did you know there are note phases in your perfume or cologne that you need to check before we decide to purchase it? They are called “notes” and each one is very important. Notes are separated in three classes,
1. Top / head Note
2. Middle / heart Note
3. Base Note.
These three denote groups of scents.
1. Top/ head
From the time the Perfume or cologne is applied, the notes start to work one right after another. Depending on the evaporation of the first note, it will affect the other two.
The top note is usually the first fresh smell that is sharp, as it starts to be assertive. These are the strong compounds of the top notes that are volatile but evaporate quickly.
2. Middle / heart notes
The middle or “heart” note is the part that you can smell as soon as the top note evaporates. They call this phase the heart of the perfume because it is the main scent of the perfume or the cologne. It is the body (heart) of the fragrance. It masks the unpleasant initial impression of the base note(s) which becomes pleasant with time.
The process could take about twenty minutes to an hour. Some scents of the middle notes can be mellow depending on the compound.
3. Base notes
The base note(s) brings depth and solidarity to the perfume. The compounds of the base notes hold the fixative, which holds and boosts the strength of the lighter top and middle notes that start to evaporate slowly because of their large and heavy molecules.
The scents are usually rich and very deep and so it is best to wait for thirty minutes after you spray it on to get the full aroma which gives the perfume or the cologne time to evaporate. Once you have waited for the cycle to complete, it is done. Then you will know how it will smell on you.
Everyone’s pH is different, so what might smell great on someone else may smell totally different on you. You end up with a scent that is not what you expected. But the perfume considered was like a song, from the first time you sprayed it on, each note would smoothly enter the next note and then onto the next, until it completed all the phases of the song.
Some categories of various notes include,
Heart notes: Cinnamon and Jasmin
Base notes: Vanilla and Musk
Top notes: Citrus and Lavender
Every note adds a certain quality to the fragrance, so it makes it unique in its own way.
There are more notes added to the categories like
Fresh florals
Spices
Woods
and
Musks
Florals reside within the top notes while woody and musky are found around the bottom notes.
With all the different notes to choose from, if you take your time and when shopping for the right scent for you. Don’t be the person that people can’t wait to get away from. Be the person that looks around and asks where that scent is coming from. It doesn’t take much time to wait for twenty minutes or one hour to see if that is the right fragrance for you.
Sometimes we are at the store for more than an hour, just shopping for groceries or browsing around checking things out, and before we know it POW one or two hours have passed by.
Use your scent detector (nose) and you will know if you will buy it or have to go home and take a shower. It is that simple!