When you are applying your perfume it’s important to think about the different pulse points on your body, and how you can use these to maximise the scents of your perfume.

A pulse point is a place upon your body where you can feel your heartbeat. Try putting your two middle fingers upon the inside of your wrist to see if you can feel your heartbeat. There are many more places around your body in which you can feel your heartbeat. When applying your perfume it’s a good idea to apply it to your pulse points for two reasons:

•    This is where your blood vessels are closest to the skin radiating heat creating a heat reaction of scents with your perfume.

•    The physical movement of the pulse of your heart disturbs the perfume making it act like a mini fragrance pump, refreshing the scents.

Because of this it’s very important to apply your perfume to these points as after a while your perfume can be become weaker smelling, and adding to pulse points acts as a regenerating pump, refreshing the scents. Good pulse points are:

•    Wrists
•    Neck
•    Back of your knees
•    Ankles
•    Crook of your elbow
•    Cleavage

Another important thing to remember when applying to these pulse points is to vary between them. Your body can become used to a perfume making your skin become more resistant to the scents.

Another area of the body, which is great to apply your perfume to is your hair. This is because it is free to move around and bounce as you walk, again acting like a fragrance pump. Applying perfume to your hairbrush before you brush your hair will make the perfume stick to your hair, helping create a long lasting perfume scent everywhere you go and throughout the day and into the night.

Choosing a perfume in the summer can be difficult. Perfume needs changing to suit the different seasons just like your clothes. If you stick with your winter warmer perfume you could be left feeling hot and heavy, and making others around you also feeling the same.

It may be hard to part from you little winter warmer fragrance, but no doubt that this trusty warmer has heavy notes which may not be suitable for the warm wearer outside. Heavy notes which should be avoided are Woody Orientals such as Sandalwood and Guaiac wood. Other fragrances which may be too heavy for the summer are perfumes with base notes of strong lasting notes of musks, and aromatic fougere of vanilla and lavender.

When choosing your perfume for the summer it may be an idea to look for your favourite perfume in a lower concentrate such as ‘Eau de Perfume’ or ‘Eau de toilette’ these have less perfume within them making them lighter to wear. Also think about what you want your summer perfume to remind you off. It is the summer so fragrances which remind you of fun, sun, and all day freshness are great.

Good summery perfumes are fragrances which contain light floral notes; these are perfumes which have scents of single flowers or a bouquet of flowers. Other notes which work well in the summer’s heat are citrusey fragrances. These are scents with notes of lemon, orange, bergamot, grapefruit, and mandarin. These work well as they are light, and airy. However if planning on wearing citrus perfumes in the hot sun, watch out as bergamot, lemon and grapefruit can make your skin more probable to burning. These are the most popular summer’s scent groups for most, but these are not the only groups of perfumes that work well in the summer’s heat. Dry spicy and light dry woody scents can also work well along with herbal fragrances which do a great job in keeping you cool on hot days.

When applying your summery perfume on a hot day you may be tempted to spray your perfume onto your clothes, as you feel too hot and sticky to apply it to your skin. Spraying perfume onto your clothes could damage and stain your best summery clothes permanently. If you feel too hot and sticky to apply your perfume directly to your skin why not spray it in front of you then walk into it. This will subtly cover your hair and skin evenly and lightly without making it feel too overwhelming and hot.

For help choosing your summery perfume we will have a new page up and running soon where you can directly click on your favourite summary groups which will take you to our list of perfumes which represent these scents.

As Father’s day is fast approaching, it’s defiantly time to buy your Dad a great fragrance for Father’s day to say thank you for being the best Dad in the world.

Choosing a perfume for your Dad can be difficult so I’m going to guide you on a few fragrances which suit different Dads out there to help you buy a special gift for Fathers day.

For Dads who enjoy contemporary and minimalist design, choosing a fragrance like The Essence for Men by Porsche Design would be a great buy. This neat little bottle will immediately capture your Dad’s eye, with this being the fragrance from the high profiled Porsche Design. This slick little bottle won the award for best packaging in the UK FiFi awards, and you can see why. This fragrance has notes of Coriander, Pine, Black Pepper, Patchouli and Incense, and is a cool, icy fragrance.

For Dads who enjoy reading and have a great appreciation of time and history, why not get him Story by Paul Smith. This is a subtle fragrance inspired by untouched old books. The bottle and packaging are inspired by type from old stories, and your Dad will be immediately impressed. Story by Paul Smith has notes of Green Ivy, Grapefruit, jasmine, Bergamot, and Cedarwood.

For Dads who appreciate floral scents why not buy him Sa Majeste La Rose by Serge Lutens. This fragrance which celebrates the scent of a single rose is different to other rose fragrances. The scent is more leafy and woody, with a long lasting woody rose scent. This fragrance has notes of Rose, Leafy greens, Geranium, Woody notes and Vanilla.

For Dads who already have lots of fragrances, why not buy him one that is a favourite summer fragrance, as fathers day is in the summer. Eau du Sud by Annick Goutal is a best selling summer fragrance. This fragrance is warm yet light, and captures Annick Goutals memories of her travels from France to Tuscany. Eau Du Sud has notes of Orange, Basil, Grapefruit, Peppermint, Lime, Vanilla, and Basil.

If you think your Dad would never wear perfume and it would be a bad idea to buy a fragrance for Fathers Day, don’t give up yet. Clean for Men from the CLEAN range of perfumes would be perfect for your Dad. CLEAN is a range of perfumes and other body fragrance products which are designed to keep you smelling clean and fresh all day long. Randi Shinder the nose behind this fragrance decided to create a perfume that would smell like you have just stepped out of the shower. This is great for Dads who aren’t fussed about perfume, as I’m sure they would still like to smell clean and fresh all day long. Clean for Men has notes of Grapefruit, Lavender, Lime, Raspberry, Musk and Patchouli.

For Dads who are a little more extreme and like to take risks I would recommend Extreme for Men by Paul Smith. The initial notes are a strong kick of Bergamot, Nutmeg, and Cardamom. The notes from this perfume will create a great impression, and is defiantly suited for dads who want to be noticed, and leave an impression wherever they go. The other notes of this fragrance are Sandalwood, Tonka, and Musks.

If you are still stuck for ideas for Fathers Day why not look through our best sellers’ category. These are our most popular fragrances, and there is bound to be a special fragrance in here that will suit and impress your Dad.

It’s June, and the northern hemisphere, including at the moment the UK, is baking in warm temperatures. This month’s perfume of the month is perfect for those long summer nights - Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan.

The fragrance is a masculine fragrance for those who love the great outdoors in the middle of summer. Vanilla, amber and a number of spices including coriander and oregano are entwined to create a hot and steamy fragrance for those men who have an air of mystique about themselves.

Ambre Sultan - when released - was a risk. Serge Lutens said it was so, however it has been a huge success for the company, becoming one of their best sellers. It’s easy to see why.

So, in honour of this warm spell we are having in the UK at the moment, Serge Lutens’ Ambre Sultan is June’s Fragrance of the Month! You can read more on this fragrance at our Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan Review on this very site, or you can buy Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan from Boutique Perfumes.

CLEAN Perfumes are a fresh delightful range of products which offer a clean fresh fragrance for you. Launched in 2003, the perfume has rocketed success, due to top Celebrities’ desire for the CLEAN Perfume.

When you step out from the shower, you smell fresh and clean, and who wouldn’t want that fragrance to last all day? The fragrance which was launched to present these smells, of just stepping out of the shower, after using your favourite soap, is a uniquely fresh smelling scent, which has achieved success from simply being inspired from soap. After unsuccessfully searching for a fragrance that would do this, Randi Shinder from Canada, decided to develop her own fragrance that would portray these freshly washed smells all day.

CLEAN Perfume has made an big appearance on Sex and the City, in 2003 during it launch. CLEAN Perfume has also made an appearance on the Celebrity pulse points of Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Ali Laundry, Christine Baumgartner-Costner, Diane Kruger, Connie Britton, Amy Smart, Jennie Garth, Summer Altice, Julia Ormond, Courteney Cox Arquette, and Jennifer Tilly. As well as appearing on these Celebs CLEAN has appeared in many top magazines such as;

Even the men of celebrity world are wearing CLEAN for Men Eau de Parfum. Jason Biggs from American Pie, Forrest Whitaker from The Last King of Scotland, James McAvoy from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Simon Woods from Penelope, Derek Luke from Antwone Fisher. Giovanni Ribisi from The Boiler Room, are all wearing CLEAN for Men, Eau de Toilette.

Clean is a great success and it’s a good job that Randi Shinder shared her fragrance with all of us, as its a stunning scent, without being overpowering or exaggerated. CLEAN perfume is simply sweet, and subtly sexy, which everyone wants to wear. Even ladies are buying CLEAN for men for their other halves. Kerry Washington from the Last King of Scotland said, ‘I’m going to make my fiancé wear this!’

Celebrities are known to have the best in everything, proving that this perfume is one of the best.

The UK FiFi awards 2009 have taken place on the 22nd of April in The Doncaster Hotel, in aid of the teenage cancer trust. Porsche Design Have picked up the award for Best New Fragrance Packaging For Men.

Porsche Design were selected for their first fragrance award, for their fragrance-The Essence for Men. Porsche Design are no strangers to craftsman ship, as this perfume comes from the well-known Porsche Design studio. The Porsche Design Company is dedicated to capturing passion, purity, precision, and performance within their brand, and their fragrance-The Essence, has achieved this. Its sleek design and contemporary packaging has dominated the award for Best New Fragrance Packaging For Men.

Upon first contact with this sleek looking perfume, the tope notes are juniper and blueberry, these then soak down to create middle notes of coriander, black pepper, and pine, the lasting effects and base notes are patchouli and incense, tangled with freshness. This creates an icy sensation and an invigorating fragrance. This is a cool innovative fragrance perfect for any man who appreciates high design and precision, which reflects within the fragrance.

In what will hopefully become a regular feature on Boutique Perfumes News, every month we will find a perfume to call our “Perfume of the Month”, and let you know what we think of it.

We’ll begin with our best selling perfume on Boutique Perfumes - Annick Goutal Rose Absolue.

Rose Absolue is one of the classic fragrances by Annick Goutal, and it’s simple, it’s name means “Absolute Rose” in English, and it’s name matches what it’s contains. One ingredient. Roses.

Deep and powdery, this fragrance released in 1984 is a unique amalgamation of a number of the world’s finest roses from Europe & Africa. A floral base note is formed by sweet and fragrant roses from Bulgaria, Morocco, Turkey & Eygpt. The deep powdery smell is formed by the mid and top notes of the Damask Rose from Syria and the May Rose from North Africa, these mid notes last for a remarkably long time, that gives a sweet smelling fragrance that lingers on and on.

We have further information on this classic fragrance on this site if you check out the Annick Goutal Rose Absolue Review on the site, or you can buy Annick Goutal Rose Absolue on Boutique Perfumes.

Mothering Sunday is just over a month away, and what better way to show your mum that you care than you buy her a perfect gift for Mothers Day from Boutique Perfumes! As it’s in spring, we believe that flowery floral perfumes are the way forward for your Mother, so have a look at some perfumes we have selected.

Gifts for Mum

Annick Goutal Gardenia Passion is a fragrance based around the Gardenia, a suptropical plant in Africa, Asia and Oceania. The sweet smelling fragrance of this plant is the base, with top and middle notes of a freshly watered garden, this is perfect for a mother on mother’s day!

Paul Smith Floral is a fragrance for the happy, bubbly mother. It combines a number of scents - magnolias are the base note, but top and middle notes of grapefruit and ginger add a fruity and spicy kick to this fragrance.

Serge Lutens Santal Blanc is perfect for the mother who is content with her lot and not wishing to interfere. A comfortable fragrance consisting of a orris root, fenugreek and benzoin blend with rose and jasmine while pink pepper, this is a very subtle fragrance, suitable for a loving mother.

In just over a week, it’ll be Valentine’s Day, and that means buying your current or prospective loved one a gift. However, how do you buy perfumes and fragrances suitable for your loved one? We’re going to look through the gifts so that you can buy your loved one the perfect perfume.

Gifts For Her

If your partner is an outdoor girl, then the fragrance Eau Du Hadrien will be loved by her. Floral, zesty and flowery, this fragrance would go great for anybody who is interested in the great outdoors.

If your partner is a girl who is fascinated with sorcery and bewitching spells, then the mysterious Mandragore would make her valentine’s day special. Bergamot, mandrake and peppermint combine in a strong, sensual fragrance.

If your partner is somebody who’s funky and loves a dance and a giggle, then the Juicy Couture fragrance would be perfect for her. Watermelon and pink passion fruit give way to a bouncy wild rose, princess lily and creme broulee smells. Once the perfume is finished, the “J Crown” stopper can be used as a necklace.

Finally, if your partner is a sophisticated girl who is always seen in the right places, then check out Sa Majeste La Rose, a fragrance which is named after and based around the majestic rose, and any self respecting sophisticated girl would love it.

Gifts For Him

If your male partner loves the thrill of the fight and is rough and ready for action, then why not check out Annick Goutal Duel. Smelling of leather, this bold masculine fragrance has a fresh woody smell.

If your partner is a driving nut, and likes sleek fragrances, he would love The Essence from Porsche Design. A fresh fragrance, Black Petter is combined with Russian Corriander to form this icy fragrance, suitable for his cool persona.

For the man with a little bit of flair and charisma, Paul Smith Extreme for Men would be the ideal fragrance for him. Nutmeg, tonka and rosewood combine to form a fragrance with a little bit of a twist!

Last orders for delivery before Christmas will be Midday Monday 22^nd December.  Boutique Perfumes will be closed over the holiday period and any orders will not be processed until we open Monday 5^th January 2009.  Wishing you a Happy Christmas and as prosperous New Year.