How to Create Signature Scent

If you’re a scent lover, you know that different notes of floral, citrus, woody, or spicy come together to create a specific vibe. But what about a signature scent? Or do you tend to change up your scents based on your mood or the season? 

If you're wondering how to create a signature scent, it's not just about what you pick, but creating a signature scent also comes down to your personal chemistry.

Consider this: Ever have a friend wearing a scent you love, or you might love how a scent smells in the bottle, but when you apply the same exact scent to your own skin and take a whiff, you might be thinking, ”Hmmm…this doesn’t smell the same at all!”

Or maybe you’ve been using a favorite scent for a while, but all of a sudden, it smells different. 

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Why does scent change from person to person or overtime? It’s all about your own unique body chemistry: Your pH levels, skin type (oily vs. dry vs. combination), body temperature, skin bacteria, hormones, sweat levels, what you eat, and your microbiome. 

Here are some other ways your scent can change:

• The humidity levels in the air around you
• Weather and sun exposure
• Other beauty products you apply to your skin
• How the scent is applied: Rubbed in or spritzed or dabbed onto your skin

Fun scent facts: 

• Fact #1. When it comes to your skin type, oily skin can hold onto scent longer (the scent binds to those oil molecules), while dry skin does just the opposite, often requiring you to reapply your favorite scents more often. Combination skin is a scent’s BFF since it’s neither oily or dry. Well hydrated and moisturized skin can hold scents longer, in case you were wondering. Just another reason to keep your beautiful skin as hydrated and moisturized as possible! Constantly battling dry skin? We’ve literally got you covered from head to toe. Learn how to give your dry skin the TLC it craves here.
• Fact #2. As for your skin’s pH levels, more acidic skin can intensify scents, while more alkaline skin can do just the opposite. Your skin’s pH can be affected by certain skin conditions or other health issues, air pollution, hard water, and pretty much anything that comes into contact with your skin.

How to Create Your Signature Scent

Thinking about how your body chemistry and the world around you can affect how a scent reacts to your skin can feel a bit overwhelming, but with a little bit of know-how, you can create unique scents that can delight both your olfactory senses and your scent-loving heart. Before we get into the how-to, remember that there are four basic classes of scent: floral, citrus, woody, or spicy, and you can even combine different classes for even more scent combo options! To keep your scent creating as simple as possible, try mixing only two classes at first.

Top tip: Try to use fragrances from the same brand—like those we offer at Zents (our favorites!)—since they are created to complement each other, which makes the whole scent creation process easier and more successful.

Here’s how creating your signature scent can work with our scent-sational Zents scents:

• Create a more floral scent: Add Petal, Fresh, Oolong, Water, or Anjou
• Create a more citrus scent: Add Mandarin, Oolong, or Sun
• Create a more woody scent: Add Earth, Fig, or Sun
• Create a more spicy scent: Add Fig, Mandarin, Sun, or Ore

We’ve made creating your signature scent—or scents, because we think you’re going to love this process!—even easier with our Zents Scent Discovery Kits. Each kit contains 10 mini sprays, one for each of the incredible scents we offer.

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When you’re wearing a scent that makes you feel confident, beautiful, and glowing, both inside and out, life just looks and feels better. And when you have the know-how to create signature scents that are uniquely your own—scents that work well with your body’s chemistry, you can face every day feeling fragrant in a way that is completely you and you alone.