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How to Sample Perfume

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  How to Sample Perfume by  Anya McCoy  |  Aug 30, 2015,  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  natural perfume  |  1 comment I just revised the insert card that I include when customers buy my sample box of 12 perfumes. I decided years ago that it’s best to make a suggestion about the sampling process, and the parallel to wine sampling. If you’ve ever visited a winery or attended a wine-sampling event, you’re familiar with this process. At the wine event, you’ll be given the light, crisp whites to experience first. You inhale the bouquet (smell) and then taste the wine. Then you’ll move on to a more robust white, something like a Chardonnay, and so on, through light reds, to deep, full-bodied reds. Why? Because the fuller-bodied, deeper, more robust wines will dull your taste buds and sense of smell a bit, overwhelming them so that if you taste a lighter wine afterward, all the nuances of that wine will be lost. Light first, then move on through the more assertively scented and tasting win