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Your personal fragrance

The wide range of perfumes currently existing in the market sometimes makes it difficult for us to identify the perfume that will especially compliment us. Which fragrance suits you, your character and your passions? Experts come to your help and suit a fragrance for you according to your dominant sense

Despite the overload of perfume bottles and fragrant creams on the shelf in your bathroom, the chances are that you have not yet found the fragrance that really identifies you. It turns out that despite the fact that most women enjoy a diverse inventory of perfumes, they would rather have one special fragrance, which will function as their personal stamp. 70 percent of them admit that they have not yet found it.

There are experts whom claim that one of the ways to find that same personal fragrance is to locate your dominant sense.

Read the following instructions.

Controlled by your sense of taste?

If you like eating and like everything concerning food – the answer is probably yes, nobody messes with you when you are earnestly watching a cooking show on television, your favorite birthday gift is a thick covered cook book and your greatest dream is that one day you will have a kitchen accessorized like a professional chef. When you go on a date you look forward not only to meeting the guy but to visiting that new restaurant that everyone is talking about as well. "We aren’t talking about obsessive eating or unrestrained voraciousness", says Dr. Hot. "Someone whom has a dominant sense of taste notices the small delicacies of taste, and can savor a single chocolate bar – she doesn’t have to finish the whole pack in order to feel satisfied". If you meet these criteria, it is probable that you also enjoy seasoning your words with sentences such as "that guy is a really a feast fit for kings" or "this is really appetizing".

So your fragrance is vanilla or chocolate

Luckily for you, perfumes containing elements from the kitchen world have become very popular of late (don’t worry; it's not that they really smell like food, they just contain allusions to those aromas). Which of them will you like the most? "If you enjoy a certain taste, try finding a perfume that contains imprints of this flavor, if this is the predominant imprint of the perfume and if this is the latent imprint", says Dr. Ivory Gilbert, a psychologist from New Jersey.

Controlled by your eyesight?

If you like dressing up in colorful clothes and spending your day off on trips between art galleries and design stores, it's probable that eyesight is your card. "We are talking about a girl that knows how to appreciate the colorfulness and aesthetics of the world around her, and never ceases to refer to the size, shape and dimension of the objects around her", says Dr. Hot. She makes a big deal out of the fact that her hair doesn’t settle properly, or enters a room and immediately notices the little defects, like a picture hung at an odd angle". Sentences one can hear her say: "can I have a look?' and let's try and look at this from a different angle".

So your fragrance is flowery or fruity

Controlled by your sense of hearing?

If in your opinion the weekend can't be perfect without a visit to the club in which your favorite band is performing, each time you leave the house becomes a nightmare if you forgot your digital player and your cellular phone has a new ringtone every week, it's apparent that your sense of hearing is your strong side. "We are talking about a girl whom enjoys talking and does it with a dizzying speed. She is also good in mimicking other people", says Dr. Hot. "She pays attention to the world around her and can identify sounds that other people don’t even notice". If you belong to this category, if you often hear yourself using phrases such as: "that sounds familiar" or "have you heard…?

So your fragrance is spicy oriental

If you know how to appreciate a good conversation, or are attracted to the complicated layers of notes and rhythms from which music is composed, the fragrance that will attract you will also be sophisticated and spicy (of the kind that usually combines imprints of trees and seasoning plants).

Controlled by your sense of touch?

Here is the best way to test it: we all love quality sheets that are comfortable to sleep on, but are you the kind of girl that is incapable of being satisfied with less, and can't do without the silk pillow, Kashmir sweater and furry slippers? Are you a competitive type whom is ready to experience anything, and if only for the sake of it? "This kind of people love the touch of things – and the meaning can refer to a soft object or actual physical action. They like to touch and be part of the world around them", says Dr. Hot. If you are such a person then possibly sentences such as "that didn’t really move me" or "that shirt is really soft" are an inseparable part of your repertoire.

"Women whom appreciate textures of objects and experiences will be drawn to elegant, creamy and sophisticated fragrances", says Dr. Allen Hirsh, founder and neurological manager of the fund for smell and taste research in Chicago. "Use of perfume with a soft and warm fragrance stimulates the same pleasant feeling that one feels when spread out on a bed covered with magnificent velvet bedcovers". Forever without limits The fragrance for men from Marvel

Michal Peled, chief perfume instructor at "Marvel Cosmetics" volunteers a few tips for choosing and using perfume. How to live in peace with your perfume.

Beginning from the spring season, it is recommended to start using perfumes with gentle, light and refreshing fragrances and not "heavy" and "spicy" perfumes. This recommendation is especially important for people whom tend to over perspire or have increased sweat gland activity.

For women occupied with intensive sport activities it is recommended to use perfumes with a clean smell that mixes in harmony with the natural body scent. For these women it is recommended to use Eau De Toilette and not Eau De Perfume.

A woman, whose main activity is in an air conditioned office, can use "heavier" perfumes.

If you buy two perfumes it is recommended to buy a match: a perfume with a light fragrance for the morning hours and a more "spicy" perfume for the evening.

It is recommended to choose both a deodorant and body lotion with the same scent extract as that of the perfume. If you are not using the same product series it is recommended to choose odorless complementing cultivation products.

Do not spray perfume on exposed body areas when going out into the sun – the alcohol exposed to the sun causes blemishes on the skin.

What really makes you happy? Satisfaction at work? A closet brimming with designer clothes? A blossoming relationship? A supporting family? Are we allowed to aspire to all these things simultaneously? Seven steps on the way to happiness

We live in a world that imparts on us infinites possibilities. As women, we have a lot of options with all things concerning career, romance and fashion – we only have to choose. On the other hand, we are much more depressed than we used to be. Studies performed over the past thirty years in the United States and other countries, show that the number of women suffering from depression is twice that of men. According to a survey from 2000 by the committee for promoting women status in the Knesset, 39 percent of the women in Israel suffer from "a high level of depressive mood".

"Intuitively, one could think that the variety of possibilities would make us happier, but it can also cause the complete opposite", says Dr. Barry Schwartz, the author of The Paradox of Choice. "The wider the variety of possibilities before you, the higher your expectations become, and when expectations are high – it is logical that you will be disappointed even if your life is not bad at all".

So if all this abundance doesn’t make us happy, what will make us happy nevertheless? Is the secret to adopt the lifestyle we had before so many options were made available to us? Not exactly. The secret is in fact a combination of a number of things, some of them temporary and some of them related to our here and now.

Take an example from Carrie from Sex and the City. Despite all she went through – and she went through a lot: her stilettos broke in the middle of the street, her boyfriend dumped her with a yellow note – she remained happy and kind hearted.

How did she do it? She had a group of friends. "Friendship is one of the main joys of life", says Dr. David Niven, the author of The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People. "When you spend time with people that really know you, you can allow yourself to act naturally, this in turn causes a significant increase in the satisfaction that you feel". Don’t worry; you really don’t have to be the founding mother of a four friend group like this one in order to achieve true happiness. "You can have a small and tight group, but also friends from other areas of your life, whom are not part of the same group", says Dr. Niven. "The most important thing is that you feel that you can open up in front of them and that they feel free to open up before you". Naturally, close friendships like these aren’t created by themselves – friendship is something that needs to be cultivated. "You need to let your friends know about your most inner secrets so that the friendship between you will really develop", explains Dr. Niven. That means that you have to be honest and not hide behind an image you wish that you had, that doesn’t really reflect whom you are. "The moment you expose a little of yourself and see that these same friends accept you for who you are, you will feel connected – and as a result you will also feel happier".

Try and reconstruct your sweetest memory from high school. It probably isn’t the one where you studied a lot for your biology test and got an A. The day you skipped school in order to take a private lesson in male anatomy is probably rated a bit higher up the list, isn’t it? That’s exactly the point. "If you had only done the things that are allowed in life, you wouldn’t have experienced moments that are fun to remember, and you wouldn’t have had crazy experiences to tell about, and therefore you wouldn’t be living with a feeling that you are really experiencing life", explains Dr. Brian Luke Seaward, the author of Quiet Mind Fearless Heart. Don’t get it wrong; we are not suggesting that you become an outlaw, but just occasionally leave the frame. "People think that doing the right thing will make them happy, but in fact taking risks give life its flavor", says Dr. Seaward. For you it may be that taking a risk is going on a weekend holiday with a new guy, or even wearing an especially short dress.

Money doesn’t make people happy, and things that money can be used to buy won't help you live in happiness and satisfaction. This is the reason that there is no point in accumulating objects or old clothes, those that have already done their part in your life. And yes, that includes your favorite T-shirt from basic training days (that you bought at the mall and was not knitted by your beloved grandma). "Unnecessary objects burden us and fill up our space; this floods us and causes a feeling of disorder", says Dr. Janet Taylor, a psychiatrist from New York. "If you get rid of the things you don’t need, you can retrieve your feeling of control and become much lighter and happier". In this airy note, this is the best time to perform this cleansing. You don’t have to do a spring cleaning at home, but preferably the objects around you should only be those that you really love. "If you have an object that you haven't used or looked at in the past six months – throw it away, without feeling guilty", she insists.

"Overload increases your psychological stress. But it also makes you productive, and productiveness is an important part of the feeling of happiness", says Dr. Niven. "Inactivity, on the other hand, causes boredom, which stimulates feelings of uselessness and dissatisfaction – even though breaks are a crucial part of your life". In sum, too much activity will cause you to break down, and boredom isn’t good for you either – the recommended way to go through life is with a proper combination of the two. Fill in your days with things that you like doing (yoga class every Tuesday night, for example) and things that you have to do (laundry and paying bills). "Keep in mind that at the end of each day you must feel that you have accomplished something, but that you also managed to enjoy yourself and rest", says Dr. Niven. Naturally, the most challenging mission for us all is learning to relax. That is to say, that you need to decide not to torment yourself with work matters when you are at home, determine regular holidays for yourself or meditate.

You stay overtime at work, visit the gym regularly, keep a low fat and tasteless diet, and even remember the birthdays of all your family members, friends and colleagues at the office. "It is so exhausting to maintain exemplar behavior at all times, to be okay with everyone and show restraint when necessary, until one could think that the reward is so great", says Dr. Seaward. "But if you don’t stop and enjoy yourself once in a while over something nice, don’t be surprised if you wake up miserable one day". So yes, once in a while you just have to let yourself enjoy the small pleasures of life: enjoy a gourmet sandwich instead of the uniform bread that you bring from home, browse the internet a bit before you answer the two hundredth email for the day, or invest a little time in a pedicure at the prestigious beauty parlor instead of putting on nail varnish in your living room, "if you feel loaded and stressed, this is the right time to let go and spoil yourself a little", says Dr. Seaward.

Since we are all human beings in the end, it is probable to assume that you also have moments in which you say yourself "I can't believe that I have done something so stupid". "We have a tendency to flog ourselves after the act has been done, but we have to know how to forgive", says Dr. Ed Diner, a psychologists at the University of Illinois. "Mistakes are inevitable; you have to continue loving yourself even when you make mistakes". This also applies to the flaws that you insist upon finding with your body; the crookedness of your nose that makes you consider surgery, the breasts that seem too small to you or too large, the too flat bottom in your opinion. We can all point to ten flaws in our body – but the secret of happy people is their ability to appreciate themselves despite those flaws. It's not easy at all, but it is very important that you restrain your self-criticism. Each time you give yourself a hard time, try to remember the things in which you are actually good at, and start exercising self encouragement. "We have a tendency to minimize our successes, because we don’t want to sound arrogant, but it is important to let others participate in good news, and this raises the mood", says Dr. Diner. "Not only do you muse over things that make you happy, you also make the person in front of you excited and enthusiastic, which may make you even happier".

You are sitting in a restaurant, the menu is in your hands and the conflict begins: pasta or salad? Pie or soup? After 20 minutes of hesitation you pick the salad, and until it arrives, you sit there and think whether it wouldn’t actually have been better to pick the pasta. "We convince ourselves that there has to be something better outside, but this search is a recipe for failure", says Dr. Schwartz. "You waste time and energy on doubting a correct choice, only because you had another option – or five other options - which you didn’t choose". You will never be able to be happy if you live your life like that". What is the solution? Each time you stand before a decision – for example, if the current man in your life is the one or not – pick two attributes or characteristics that you find important, and ask yourself whether the man stands up to them. If the answer is yes, forget about all the other options and move on. If you were meant to reach a different decision you will know by yourself, since it will bother you extremely. So you can relax, you have made the right choice – or at least the one that will make you happy.

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