Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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How the French Wear Perfume

Applied to skin, not clothes, in small quantity, at pulse points. The intended radius is about an arm length. Perfume that enters a room before the wearer is regarded as a failure of calibration.

Apply half of what you normally would, on skin only, and ask someone close to you whether they can smell it. That is the correct amount.

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