10 Signs That You’re Obsessed With Perfumes

If you like to buy perfumes more than shoes and spend more time in Sephora than at your own home, maybe you are suffering from "perfume obsession". These are the obvious signs.

Do you like to buy a new perfume almost every week? Are you that person your friends always ask for advice when they have to buy a new fragrance? Do you get super excited when some new perfume comes into stores? Maybe you’re suffering from a “perfume obsession”. Check out our list of potential signs and find out if you’re just a fan or a fragrance fanatic.

1. Your collection is massive

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This is the obvious one! Your dresser is filled to the brim with various bottles of the bottled magic. It’s probably beginning to resemble a wizard’s laboratory, with endless potions and pots to choose from!

2. You drool over the latest perfume adverts

If you see Kiera Knightley, Julia Roberts or another stunning celebrity in a cloud of diamonds waving another perfume bottle in your face, you’re going to cry with frustration! They all look so gorgeous—the perfumes of course, not the models.

3. You buy magazines purely for the little samples

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Vogue? Got it. Marie Claire? Got it. Woman and Home? Had to get it—purely for the perfume, obviously. Your face fills with glee when you feel the thick bumpiness of that magazine from the outside pages! You may even take a few of those sample pouches when browsing in the magazine aisle—don’t lie, we’ve all done it!

4. They’re beginning to know you by name in the department store

When the weekend comes around and shopping is on the cards, we know to find you on the ground floor of the nearest department store. All of those hundreds of stands; all those samples; all the perfumes to choose from! You make sure you change your style every time you visit, however, just so that same shop assistant doesn’t begin to recognize you as the ‘crazy perfume lady.’

5. You know all of the latest perfumes to come out

Have you been desperately anticipating the release of that brand new bottle by Marc Jacobs or Dior? Or, has Beyonce kept you on your toes, waiting for that new scent of hers? Either way, you keep up to date with when the newest designer brands are gracing the world with a new way to smell, and are always first in line to get it!

6. You know which brand is which simply by smell

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In another life, it’s most likely you were a drug-busting sniffer dog, judging by how powerful your sense of smell is! Events and social gatherings can be a nightmare: so many different perfumes, so little time. By simply breathing inwards as somebody passes you by, you can tell exactly what brand their perfume is, and how much they inevitably spent!

7. You judge others by their choice of perfume

Come on, we’ve all done it! We all remember that one teacher at school who’s overpowering perfume still emanates in our noses. If someone’s perfume is sickly and sweet, or far too strong to bear standing near, we know to make a bee line for the door. However, when someone smells simply amazing, they will struggle to get rid of you!

8. Certain perfumes bring back certain memories

When somebody strolls past you and their perfume fills your nostrils, you can sometimes be transported back to a time years ago when you wore the same one! It can send you back to a good time or a bad time; regardless of what it may be, you’re thinking of all those powerful memories!

9. Some perfumes remind you of certain people

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Just like memories, perfumes can send you spiraling into flashbacks of different people, too. That sweet scent your granny always wore, that nose-burning overpowering perfume your aunty always wore to dinner and even that subtle flowery perfume can remind you of a childminder you may have had as a toddler. Smells are extremely powerful things, and perfumes can let you explore your deepest and happiest memories!

10. You have a different perfume for every occasion

Yes, your collection has grown so big that, by now, these different bottles have been divided into very complex sub-categories. They can range from everyday, day to night, first dates, dinner date, evening, weddings…the list goes on and on! Whatever the occasion, you are ready and raring to go with a million bottles at the ready.

Whether any of these are true to you, or maybe all of them are, either way, you wouldn’t change your perfume addiction for the world! There’s nothing better than smelling amazing, letting that beauty and confidence emanate from your skin; it shows the people around you just how amazing you really are!

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Isobel Howell

I’m a passionate freelance writer and editor, writing everything from articles to even a couple of eBooks! I never let being ‘young’ get in the way of being successful, age is irrelevant when you have a million ideas in your head and gallons of ambition!

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