From time to time, we like to bring you expert knowledge from leaders in their fields. We have asked Neil Morris, of Neil Morris Fragrances, to offer his best advice for finding and applying your wedding day fragrance. Take notes!

Congratulations on your engagement! Our sense of smell is one of our strongest senses and is a catalyst that instantly connects us to memories and emotions. Fragrances can evoke a bounty of pleasant and loving memories including your first love, walks along the ocean, playing on a fresh cut lawn, delicious dinners and even Thanksgiving apple pie. We choose fragrances to define us and create our personal signatures.

For starters let’s talk about how to apply a fragrance. Here are a few pointers:

1. Do NOT spray the air in front of you and walk through it! It doesn’t work and all you’re doing is paying top dollar for a room spray!

2. Do not apply your perfume two minutes before you go out the door! You’ll knock everybody out on the elevator! 10 – 15 minutes before leaving the house would be best.

3. Apply fragrance to pulse points on the wrist, elbows, behind the ears AND behind your knees. Spray lightly on your collarbone. Fragrance rises so you’ll be able to smell it longer. Also, lift your hair up (if it’s long) and spray the hairline at the nape of your neck. The fragrance will stick to the hair and will waft around you when the wind blows. And when someone gives you a hug they’ll immediately enjoy your fragrance.

4. Don’t think that just because you can no longer smell your perfume that it’s not there. We quickly become anosmic (a fancy word meaning loss of our sense of smell) to our personal scent so we can tune into the other scents around us. But it’s still there and others will be aware of it.

If you have further questions about fragrances, contact me at Neil@neilmorrisfragrances.com. I’ll try my best to answer.

Check back tomorrow for Part II of Mr. Morris’ guest post!