Fresh out of the shower? Be sure to reach out for your favourite perfume and apply a few spritzes on yourself right away. Reason being: the moisture on your skin will help lock in the scent and keep you smelling fresh all day.

Fact is, some perfumes can really stain clothes and while many would mist their perfumes into the air before stepping through it, you’re actually just wasting product and the scent will evaporate after a short amount of time. In this case, what you need to do is to spritz your perfume on your bare skin so that it lasts a little longer.

Heat and light breaks down the perfume and lessens the quality of the fragrance. To increase its shelflife and preserve its quality, be sure to store your perfumes in cool dry areas like in your vanity drawers away from the windows or even in the refrigerator.

There’s a reason why most people apply perfumes on their pulse points: they are warm and that will help diffuse the fragrance across your entire body. Some of your pulse points include your wrists, inside your elbows, your neck, and below your midriff.

On top of that, you can also smell fabulous all day long by applying an unscented lotion or moisturiser to your pulse points before you spritz on perfume. The oils in the moisturisers help to prolong the longevity of the perfume.

If you are particular about how your perfume smells, look for one with more synthetic ingredients. Sylvaine Delacourte, fragrance evaluation and development director at Guerlain says: “Fragrances that contain more natural ingredients will become more intense and its colour will change over time.”

We’ll admit — some of us are guilty of rubbing our wrists together after applying our perfumes, but if you’re reading this now, then it’s about time you realise that what you were doing back then actually forces the scent to disappear faster than intended.

You read that right. Spraying your perfume right above your ears can actually make your favourite scent last longer. This is because the oilier your skin is, the better it holds scent — and if you didn’t already know this particular area is a little bit oilier than you think.