What are smelling strips, blotters or mouillettes
all three are names used to describe these smelling strips made of absorbent and odourless pieces of paper that perfumers & fragrance lovers use to sample perfume and essential oils.
After the actual essential oils, smelling strips are the most important element in a perfumer's tool kit.
Most of us, however, will know them from our visits to the perfumery counter in a department store, duty free or fragrance boutique. They are the paper strips the store assistants spray and hand over to you.
If you want to try a large variety of different fragrances it is impossible to simply spray them:
onto your skin
in the air, or
onto fabric
you won't have enough patches of skin where to spray them and you will find they begin to mix.
You may also wish to test what a fragrance smells like after a few hours, a day or even several days.
In these circumstances, smelling strips are ideal.
Equally, if you are evaluating or studying different raw materials, the use of smelling strips blotters mouilette is vital.
Types of smelling strips and which should you choose
here are the main types and their specific use:
narrow or pointed end ideal for dipping into narrow neck bottles or evaluating small amounts of raw materials.
Square or paddle end the wider surface area is better spraying perfume. By folding the paper longways, it can also be used for dipping.
How should you smell fragrance with a smelling strip
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