We experimented with ways of wearing perfume too:
- A dab on each wrist then touched to our neck
- A dab behind the ear
- We sprayed the air before walking through the mist
- Put a spritz on our decolletage
- Sprayed our clothes
- And sprayed it in our hair
It turns out that hair is a perfect host for perfume. Hair has great sillage, that’s an elegant French term for the trail a fragrance leaves behind. It comes from the French word for ‘wake’, the patterns left by a bird or boat as it moves through the water.
Sillage can be explosive, fill the room and loudly broadcast a presence, or it can be more of a subtle bloom, intimate and only detectable when you lean in.
You could just spritz your hair with your skin scent like we did back in the day but there are some definite bonuses to using a fragrance that’s specifically designed for hair.
With nourishing and conditioning ingredients to care for your hair, hair perfumes are lightweight and contain little to no alcohol. They soften and condition rough hair and impart a subtle sheen and scent to hair. Hair perfume makes sense because hair is a natural diffuser for scent, but the point of this story is that they really do have so much more to offer than just great sillage.