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Of all the places to spray perfume, avoid your pulse points.
Especially your neck.
While it's believed to make your fragrance last longer, it can actually cause problems.
In a few years, you could be dealing with Poikiloderma of Civatte and there’s nothing that fully reverses it.
Your neck is extremely delicate, almost like the skin in your armpits or private areas. It’s thin, constantly moving and directly exposed to sun and friction.
Unlike your face, it has little protective oils, which makes it vulnerable to anything applied on it and once damage happens, it’s permanent.
Pulse points are areas where blood vessels run close to the surface... wrists, behind the ears and the neck.
They’re warmer than other areas, which supposedly makes perfume bloom and diffuse faster. That’s why generations of beauty advice have told us the neck is the perfect place to spray.
Which is so WRONG!
Perfume is made of alcohol, oils, and other chemical compounds that are far from gentle.
On the neck, these chemicals penetrate faster than almost anywhere else on your body.
Sun exposure also acts as an accomplice.
Some ingredients in perfumes, react with UV rays, creating tiny bursts of inflammation. These reactions happen every time you’re outdoors after spraying perfume
They slowly trigger pigment changes and weaken blood vessels. This is why even casual exposure, combined with perfume, can leave marks you won’t notice until years later.
Over time, the blotches darken and spread. Tiny broken blood vessels can appear, creating a fine network of red lines that give the skin a patchy, uneven look.
The tissue itself thins, which makes veins, pigmentation and even minor discoloration more noticeable. All of a sudden, your neck looks older than your face, and nothing you try seems to fix it.
The best method is spraying perfume lightly on your clothes.
Fabric absorbs fragrance, slows evaporation and shields delicate skin from direct chemical and sun exposure.
You get the perfume, your skin stays safe and years from now, your neck looks normal instead of blotchy.