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This Is the Right Way to Apply Perfume

Good smells mean good times. Perfume has been used in nearly every culture since the beginning of civilization. Today, we can synthesize almost anything in a lab, but people once had to use natural essentials to make things fragrant. Egypt and Rome had their methods, and do did Mesopotamia. One thing people figured out over time was that perfume was meant to go on special parts of the body. Which ones?

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Spraying yourself down is not the way to go, despite what some commercials would have us believe. Scents should be applied at pulse points like your wrist, behind your ears, and the base of your throat. Blood flows near the skin's surface there and emits more heat to enhance the perfume.