Coordinating Perfume with Body Care Products

[lunabee34]

I have made my first BPAL purchase! Thank you to everyone who gave me excellent suggestions.

As I wait for my imps to arrive, it suddenly occurs to me that I have been satisfying most of my smell pretty needs with soap, bath gel, and lotion. When I start testing out imps, best case scenario is that my body care products complement the new perfumes. Worst case scenario, I start smelling like the Yankee candle end of the mall.

So what do y'all do?

1. Do you "match" your body care products to your perfume? Or coordinate them to complement in some way? If so, what have you found that works for you?

2. Do you go the unscented, most neutral route so that only your perfume shines through? If so, what have you found that works for you?

3. To what extreme to you take it if you don't like other scents interfering with your perfume? Unscented laundry detergent? Etc?

Comments

[white_aster]

I honestly don't try to coordinate at all because my soaps/shampoo scents don't really last long enough to interfere with anything. Maybe this is because I shower at night and everything has a nice long time to sublimate off me? The only thing I use during the day other than perfume is relatively unscented lotion (just because I've found that kinds that focus on the scent often aren't very good lotions in general...and often this is the case with soaps and shampoos, too, now that I think about it....)

If I do have something particularly smelly, though, I'd try to coordinate soap with scent (I am notorious for having multiple soaps...soaps was my first smelly addiction. >_>)

[lunabee34]

That makes sense. I take showers every morning, so the scent seems stronger to me.

Thanks for weighing in !