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"I&amp;#x27;m the perfume guru around the Lipstick and Glamour.com offices&amp;amp;#8212;I take pride in the fact that at least once a week I get to answer some person&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Oh my god, what smells so good?&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;Me.&amp;quot; And, well, not to toot my own horn too much, but one thing I&amp;#x27;ve become quite good at over the years is layering scents to add just a little extra level of spiciness/summeriness/sexiness/whatever-I&amp;#x27;m-after-at-the-momentiness. Here&amp;#x27;s how you do it. 1) Start with something basic. You can layer multinote perfumes, but single-note or very basic fragrances (like Demeter Fragrances or Body Shop Perfume Oils) are easiest to start out with. So I recommend you begin with those. If you insist on jumping into combining multinote scents, I warn you, don&amp;#x27;t pick anything too complex or you&amp;#x27;re going to just end up smelling like the fragrance section of a department store. 2) Start thinking like a baker. This whole thing is like making a cake. The base notes are your actual cake&amp;amp;#8212;they&amp;#x27;re the starting layer, the strong part. Think musks, patchoulis, woods. You definitely need one of these &amp;#x27;cause they&amp;#x27;re the only things that stay on skin past the first couple of hours&amp;amp;#8212;in other words, you need something to hold the frosting, even if you think the frosting is the best part. Then you get to put on a flavoring of sorts, like the raspberry jam or coconut layer between cake layers. These are your middle notes. They give your scent a little more character. Think berries and greens. And then you&amp;#x27;ve got your frosting. These are the lightest scents, the white flowers, the citrus-y scents, and the other sweet notes that burn off fastest. If you try to hit all three layers in your mix, you&amp;#x27;ll have a fairly well-rounded fragrance. 3) Get some paper strips. You know those fragrance tester strips they have at stores? Grab a few or create your own by cutting out strips of paper. Then here&amp;#x27;s what you do: Spray the fragrances you&amp;#x27;re thinking of layering on each one (so one per piece of paper), label them (so you don&amp;#x27;t get them confused!), then gather them together in different groupings until you get a fragrance mix you love. This will save you a lot of trial-and-error headaches, trust me. 4) Apply in the right order. Now it&amp;#x27;s time to actually put your new scent mixture together&amp;amp;#8212;and you want to do it in the order that you&amp;#x27;d put together that fictitious treat you &amp;quot;baked.&amp;quot; So put on the cake first, then the flavor, then the icing. This is key because each layer is lighter than the last. Think about it: If you reversed them, all you&amp;#x27;d smell is the strongest note because that would be on top. Now you know the basic steps, it&amp;#x27;s time to experiment. Or maybe you&amp;#x27;ve already been playing around. If so, what concoctions have you come up with?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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