Why perfume on wrist?

Spraying your wrists and neck is purely tradition and has little to no effect on the scent or intensity of the perfume, says Perry Romanowski, a cosmetic chemist and co-founder of The Beauty Brains. “The traditional belief is that the pulse points are places where the body generates extra heat and this can intensify the fragrance. There’s no evidence to support this.”

According to Romanowski, heat can increase the volatility of ingredients in your perfume, leading the molecules to evaporate more quickly and come off as a stronger burst of fragrance. But that only holds up if the skin at your pulse points is actually hotter than elsewhere on your body—and as cardiologist Jeffrey Schussler, M.D., explains, that’s not actually the case.

“You can feel your pulse where it’s fairly superficial, but the body temperature is pretty much regulated,” Schussler says, meaning that even though your veins may be close to the skin’s surface at your wrist, the actual temperature of your skin won’t vary.

The practice of spritzing your wrists and neck came about in the early 1900s, before atomizers (perfume bottles’ spray mechanisms) were widespread, says Raymond Matts, a fragrance designer and instructor at the Pratt Institute’s perfumery certificate program. Perfumes back then were highly concentrated and came in bottles with crystal stoppers (think Dior Poison), so women would wipe the stoppers on their wrists, and then rub their wrists on their ears. But that was then, and this is now.

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