Life&Style February Issue - MaltaRightNow.com

| BEAUTY |
The fashion of
fragrance
0h sweet smell of Perfume
An all-time favourite gift is undoubtedly a nice bottle of
perfume. Recently, we have seen so many fragrance
launches – light perfumes for day, intense versions for
night, and perfumes designed to be worn on holiday.
Suddenly, it seems only fit to update those fading
bottles on our dressers with something hip.
There was a time when we had clothes for day and
night – even today, our wardrobes have to make space
for a few eveningwear pieces too as our collection of
everyday basics just won’t do. The pressure is on not
just in the fashion world but also for fragrances too it
seems. You have just to walk into a perfumery to be
enveloped by all those different day and night scents
and you can be sure there are more genres to come in
the future.
On the whole, throughout the year, we generally
succumb to a few designer pieces and fill up the rest
of the wardrobe with high street fashion. We are a
nation obsessed by labels, but the older we
get, we generally become more eclectic
and confident about our choices.
The same goes for scent. We are
more prone to try a few different
perfumes instead of sticking to
Chanel No.5.
So has the myriad
of perfumes earned
its place along with
the various fashion accessories? Do we
shop for perfumes the same way, say,
that we do for bags? It does seem
that finally the lines between
fashion and fragrance have
merged.
It’s still something special
buying a designer dress – it feels
unique. The perfume industry
has equalled this by launching a
MALE SCENTS
Men tend to wear aftershave, which is simply perfume by another
name. Rather than choosing to smell of carnations or roses, men
tend to go for fragrances that are based on spice, leather and wood,
which are by definition more masculine and ‘butch’. However, recently
sweeter fragrances have been creeping in as men like the smell of
flowers as much as women.
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