Did you know you should not store your perfume bottles in the bathroom? If the answer is no, don't worry, you're not the only one. Perfume lovers have been left stunned after an expert revealed the places you shouldn't leave your perfume and the popular option featured on the list.
While most fragrance fans know it is a bad idea to keep your bottles in direct sunlight, it turns out there's a lot more about storing perfume that many of us did not know about. The common mistake came to light after @professorperfume took to TikTok to share the money-saving advice.
The perfume-obsessive regularly shares tips to her popular account, where she describes herself as the "fragrance fairy godmother." In one of her latest clips, she claimed: "If you keep your perfume in the bathroom, when you shower, all of the steam and constant temperature fluctuations are going to spoil your perfume a lot faster than if you store them correctly.
"Now, if you are thinking okay I'll take them out of my bathroom and I'll put them on my dresser or my windowsill, eh, don't do that either. Store your fragrance in a cool, dry, dark place. I always recommend your closet or a dresser drawer. Some people keep them in the fridge. You don't have to go that far, but when you store them correctly they will last you for years and years."
The onscreen caption read: "Say it with me: hide them away to make them stay." The video has since amassed over two millions views and thousands of responses from shocked commenters.
One person replied: " WOAH did not know this. So Eau de toilette does not go near the toilette!!!"
A second said: "Ok but like who doesn’t keep their perfume in the bathroom." And another wrote: "..the walk of shame I just did to my bathroom. Into the hall closet they go." Meanwhile, other fans shared their dismay as they like to keep their perfume on display. Someone replied: "Then they shouldn’t make the bottles so pretty," and a different commenter pined: "But they look so pretty on display."
Thankfully, one helpful commenter recommended setting up a display within the wardrobe, and many more were quick to support the expert. "Facts. I still have fragrance from high school that’s still going strong," read one such reply.
Someone ELSE queried: "What about ….a dark drawer in the bathroom," the expert replied: "If it’s in the bathroom it’s susceptible to temp fluctuations! it should be in another room altogether."
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