One way to make your favorite perfume—whether it’s an EDT or EDP—last longer without having to over-spritz is to use its fragrance ancillaries (also an indulgent way to complete the experience of your fragrance).
On their own, ancillaries like shower gels, hair mists, body creams, and hand creams can be subtler versions of your EDP or EDT that can provide a lighter, delicate sillage. What we love best about ancillaries is how they do not really alter or make the notes stronger—but make them longer-lasting and give them a beautiful sillage.
For our favorite perfumes, we find their bath counterparts like shower gels and shampoos to be the most effective in dousing our entire body with fragrance. If we can’t find a shampoo, we usually opt for a hair mist, which leaves the most incredible scent all day. There’s something about our weather (and humidity) that makes our hair absorb hair mist fragrance so well, and leave a light pleasant trail.
Meanwhile, creams and lotions lock in the fragrance onto the skin, making it a beautiful texture to add to your fragrance wardrobe.
Miss Dior (which has 5 iterations) ancillaries are our recent discoveries, and we’ve been obsessed. It comes in a moisturizing body milk, a hair mist, a nourishing hand cream, a fresh body cream, a fresh rose body oil, and even a scented blooming powder.
Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet, a fresh floral scent with notes of Sicilian mandarin, pink peony, rose, apricot, peach, and white musk, is a crowd pleaser and our favorite Miss Dior.
Dior is available at Rustan’s.
