Finding Perfume on a Budget

Video Transcript

"Tip number 17: Determining Your Budget. Once of the things I like to do with my clients when we first sit down to meet about a fashion makeover is to sit down and lay out their budget. Your personal budget is a very accurate reflection of your personality, your identity, and your lifestyle. It doesn't make any sense to spend a fortune on perfume if doesn't accurately reflect your regular day to day lifestyle. At the same time, if you have a high end lifestyle then you shouldn't be wearing drugstore perfumes. Again it's not an accurate reflection of who you are and how you're choosing to live your life. There are many perfumes for many budgets that are out there on the market everything from extremely high end, which is usually sold in small quantities and very refined jars, to very low budget which is often a knock off of the same refined perfumes that you find in a department store but they smell really not as good. The important thing for you is to realize that you get what you pay for, as with anything else. I would recommend for most people to choose something in a middle range. Instead of going very low budget, which chances are won't smell very good, or breaking the bank on an extremely high end leisure perfume that doesn't reflect your lifestyle, determine how much you do want to spend. Anywhere from fifty to a hundred dollars is reasonable for a middle range perfume and then go to the department store, read the magazines, and begin doing your research as I've described in the previous tips."