Scent of a Woman

We finally reached the airport and we only have half an hour until departure. Me and my friend Dana feared that we were going to miss the flight, we started running to get to our gate when Dana told me she had to pass by the duty free shop for just a minute.. I told her she has to find a cure for her shopaholic fatal stage she reached and grabbed her hand trying to drag her to the gate. She stood in the middle of the hall and said it is impossible for her to fly if she did not go, and i could see her tearing up! so i had to follow her quickly as she was heading to the perfumes section.. she knew exactly where she was heading and she reached the Dior shelves and grabbed a tester bottle of Dior Homme and sprayed it all over herself, then she told me she was ready to go..I stood there for a second trying to comprehend the urgency of what my crazy friend just did especially that she sprayed a men's perfume all over herself!!!!! She spared me the questioning part and explained : " I can't travel without him, his perfume makes me feel safe. He never changed his perfume and i never stopped smelling it" Dana Said. I thought it was super romantic specially when i saw her sniffing her sleeves while we were on the plane.. I want to spray a man's perfume on me as well, and back then i had a man in my life, but unfortunately he never used to spray one certain perfume that i would actually link to him !

After that incident I came across an interesting fact which states that the most sense connected to memory is the sense of smell. And a new weapon was invented in my head.. The scent of a woman!

To all the single ladies out there, you need to throw all your perfume bottles and prepare yourselves for the 'forget me not' weapon search. Your scent is what a man will remember to the rest of his life.. whenever he smells any lady wearing the same perfume as yours it will bring back your image in his mind, but how would he recognize your scent after years pass by if you wear twenty different perfumes!!! Don't give me the excuse of having a light one for the morning and a heavier one for the evening because its lame.. what is worse is the ones you specify according to seasons and occasions.
Prepare yourselves ladies to go perfume shopping this weekend, but first you need to make an oath to stick to that one perfume that you will pick for at least three years.
Make an event out of it, dress up nicely and look your best. Take your best friend with you and believe in how important that mission of your is. Here are a few tips on how to find your 'forget me not' scent:

• Test the perfumes on your skin not on tissues or paper, the oils in the perfume reacts with your skin which makes the same perfume smells different from one person to another.
• Test maximum four different perfumes and go home.. after couple of hours resmell them on your skin.
• Avoid very heavy or very light perfumes, pick a scent that represents your character.. Try the brands that are not very well known like the boutique brands instead of the very famous ones since they may have a less commercial feel to them.
• Don't try just the new perfumes, journey back and try different old ones.. who said perfumes get outdated!
• Pick three favourites and then research the perfume online.. you will be shocked to know there is an interesting story behind each one.. Who the nose is ( the person who invented it), what notes does it have (notes are the combination of scents they mix together), and how did that nose got inspired to blend those certain notes together... you will have more connection with your perfume once you knew the story behind it!!

I am still stuck between four favourites which are Burberries Weekend, Lancome Miracle, Noa by Cacharel, and Premiere Jour by Nina Ricci .. Any votes?