Sniffing Out Success: Your Guide to Finding a Signature Scent
Four actionable steps to finding your perfect perfume match
I am happy to announce that I finally have a follow up to Mission 1 The Signature Fragrance . This followup will provide tips on how you can find your own signature fragrance. In the first mission I told you all about my over 10 year search for a signature scent. Yes ten years. And now I understand why. I had no clear system or method to find this fragrance so over the years I would occasionally stumble upon something that I liked. But more often than not I would buy fragrances that were ok initially but they would in the end have a quality to the scent that I would eventually end up not liking. And I rarely found a fragrance I loved. But, over the last six months I developed a process that has enabled me to find fragrances I like and love. And what’s even better I have found fragrances that I will most definitely be a part of my fragrance wardrobe.
So if you are:
A person that buys fragrance based on articles posted online with the title “the most complimented fragrances” and when you buy the fragrance, smell it you wonder why it was even recommended. This is for you.
If you don’t love your current fragrance. This is for you.
If you are not really sure what you like and just buy the fragrances people on Tik Tok tell you to buy. This is for you.
First Let’s Start With Your Mindset:
Be open to this process. Because it is a process. It’s not necessarily a long process but it will require some effort. But I think it’s worth it because it will yield what you want without wasting time or money. Plus the process is fun and you will learn what qualities you not everybody else require in a fragrance.
Stop the outside noise. Stop listening to recommendations on blogs and social media about fragrances. To find a signature fragrance you have to go within. You’re not going to want any outside influence. For something to be signature it has to quintessentially be YOU! Or a quintessential representation of YOU. It should be you in a bottle.
Know you will be tempted by FOMO. But know that eventually you will not be a victim of FOMO because you will know what notes, ingredients and even descriptions of a fragrances to try and better what to avoid.
What helped me find my signature fragrances- WIKI PARFUM DEMO
Let’s TAKE ACTION:
Gather the fragrances you love or create a list of fragrances you love. Don’t just include fragrances you have on hand but include every fragrance you have encountered that you loved and here’s the kicker you love how it smells on you. Not somebody else… you.
Enter these fragrances into Wikiparfum. Wikiparfum is a fragrance finder/analysis tool that assists in your signature fragrance journey by creating a profile for you that identifies your ideal fragrance family and sub-family of the fragrances you added. This profile is your blueprint of what you love the most in a fragrance and should be used to guide your fragrance selections.
Learn & commit to memory the notes you love and the fragrance families the fragrances you love fit into. Lean into and apply the data as you go forth. That means that your scent selection should align to what your profile discovered for you. Trust that you will have variety within the fragrance family and sub family. All the fragrances I have been trying over the last six months fit in the floral amber, floral fruit or gourmand family but they don’t smell the same.
Go out and put your olfactory profile results to the test. Only try/buy fragrances that fit within your profile. The service I’m using to discover and try new fragrances is Scentbird. I choose my fragrances from Scentbird using my olfactory profile in WikiParfum. My Scentbird selections are sent to my monthly provides enough fragrance to try over time day, night, and even in different seasons. But you don’t have to use Scentbird; fragrance brands big and small now offer travel size of fragrances. So I suggest sampling a travel sized version of a fragrance before investing in a full size.
What are some tips you have to finding a fragrance you absolutely love? Recommendations from others? By looking for a particular note? Let me know..
