Some habits we have are seemingly unrelated to how we wear perfume, but they can have an impact on how it smells. Explanations with a chemistry teacher who explains this phenomenon to us.
THE scent is an essential everyday luxury beauty product for many of us who don’t dare go out without wearing one. Cuddly perfume, autumn or summer perfume, gris-gris perfume, femme fatale perfume, perfume faithful to your astrological sign, there are a multitude of ways to form a relationship with your perfume. Known for being difficult to choose, this beauty product like no other is also a little magical thanks to its ability to play with our emotions and amaze us. And for good reason, even if a juice pleases our nose when we smell it from its bottle, it happens that once sprayed on our skin, its notes no longer please us as much as before. Likewise, you can also fall in love with a perfume by smelling it on someone you come across, and not recognizing the smell that we liked so much in perfumery or when we carry it in our turn.
Far from being a mystery, this phenomenon is actually chemistry since the perfume molecules react on contact with the skin, and their chemical reactions can be different from one person to another. A phenomenon which can be explained as Cartesian as the fact of no longer smelling your perfume when you have been wearing the same one for a while and have become accustomed to its smell which has become almost too familiar to us. What we knew less was that what we eat can also change the smell of our perfume as warned Isabelle Parrot, chemistry teacher at the University of Montpellier and co-founder of the Odore Scola brand, in a press release. The expert emphasizes in particular that this is the case “if our diet is rich in spicesespecially in curry, cumin”.
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How spicy food can change the smell of perfume?
The chemistry professor explains that this astonishing phenomenon is due to “our usual sweating” which, compared to that which it would be linked to a diet without spices, “will be modified” when we consume a lot of curry and cumin in our dishes. This type of very spicy food would thus be able to modify the olfactory perception that we have of our perfume, due to our body odor “more marked or different” when eating these spices. As Isabelle Parrot explains, “these olfactory notes will play the role of complementary odorants which will be added to the perfume worn”. This surprising dietary habit can therefore help to change the smell of perfumes once they come into contact with our skin.
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