Why Your Skin Eats Fragrances

This is a video about Skin Chemistry and Fragrance Longevity Revealed, or Why Your Skin Eats Fragrance. Your skin isn't eating your fragrance. It's just not holding onto it — and the difference between those two ideas explains most of what people get wrong about "skin chemistry." This episode takes apart one of the most over-invoked phrases in the hobby. "It's my chemistry" gets used to explain disappointing wear, vanished top notes, and the gap between the bottle on the blotter and the bottle on your arm. Some of that is real. Most of it is dryness, sebum, pH, temperature, and skin behaving like the substrate it actually is — not a mysterious force that singles out your one expensive bottle for destruction. We get into what skin actually does to a composition, why dry skin reads as a fragrance "disappearing," why heat changes the equation more than your DNA does, and what to do about it before you blame your body and buy a third backup. As always: test it on skin, in real heat, not on a paper strip in an air-conditioned store.