GourmandgrlKathrynA66Someone posed a question I find interesting. What is your motivation for choosing a fragrance? Do you use a rotation method? Choose according to the weather/season? Or pick according to your mood?
I tend to pick depending on weather and mood. Our annual temperatures range from 100°F/37°C in the summer to 0°F/-17°C, with humidity wildly varying in spring & fall.
So, I choose whatever will work in the type of weather we're having *and* which will best suit my mood. I have noticed a lot of fragrances most people wear in winter or fall need a bit of heat and humidity to work for me. Examples: Crystal Noir Eau de Parfum and Belle d'Opium Eau de Parfum. Same in obverse. It needs to be cold for me to wear Kenzo Jungle.
I love this question! It sounds like you and I both pick our scents very similarly.
My fragrances are primarily organized by season and/or category:
- spring/summer
- autumn
- winter/holidays
- year-round staples (some soapy/fresh "palette cleansers")
- a few one-off categories ("romantic", "Halloween", etc.)
- some bedtime-specific scents that I find cozy/relaxing for a nightly unwind
So I usually pick a scent based on my mood, but still within a specific seasonal category and/or time of day (such as the bedtime scents).
One exception: I do not always pick based on temps, since where I live the seasons are a bit skewed. Example: our autumns are often very warm, but I still wear fall-specific scents during the fall seasonal timeframe.
If I waited until cold weather, I'd be wearing fall scents in the winter - and I prefer keeping my scents specific to the season I'm in, regardless of temp.