One beauty staple that has been around for decades and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere? Perfume. Smelling good will always be in style, which explains why perfume and the fragrance world is constantly trending and evolving. Whether you have a signature scent you wear every day or you like to switch up your scents depending on your mood, spritzing on a perfume is always a good idea. And recently, thanks to innovative brands and formulas and social media platforms like TikTok, hair perfume is a major trend at the moment. These hair-specific fragrances often last longer than the traditional perfume and can even benefit the health of your strands (as long as you’re choosing the right one). Keep reading for why you should add one to your beauty arsenal, the benefits of applying one and the best hair perfumes on the market to try.
What is hair perfume?
Hair perfume is essentially just what it sounds like: a perfume, or fragrance, made for your hair. They often come in the form of a mist, similar to a body mist or spray. Many hair perfumes are made for both body and hair—however, the same can’t always be said about traditional perfumes.
While hair perfumes are usually able to be spritzed on the body as a body spray, traditional perfume is often too harsh for your hair. Regular perfume is made up of a much higher concentration of alcohol than hair perfume, and these alcohol levels can damage and dry out your strands. On the other hand, fragrances specifically for hair have much gentler formulas, and oftentimes actually nourish and help your hair thanks to hair-loving ingredients. This is why it’s important not to just spritz your everyday perfume into your hair, and rather pick up a hair perfume instead.
The benefits of using a hair perfume
It can be frustrating after splurging on a perfume only to have the scent fade after an hour of wear. With hair perfume, you won’t have to worry as much about your scent lasting. Hair holds a scent much better than the skin on our body. “People often forget that hair tends to hold scent really well (think of the last time you went to a bar and came home smelling of cigarette smoke), so applying a hair perfume in the morning will help create long-lasting freshness as you move throughout the day,” says Karl Neale, co-founder and product development lead at Rebel Aromas.
Another major benefit to hair perfume is that the they contain ingredients like biotin, oils and other conditioning, protective and nourishing ingredients. Traditional perfumes do not have these hair-loving ingredients, and can actually harm hair due to the heavy (and drying) alcohol concentrates.
The 6 best hair perfumes
Keep reading for our favorite perfumes made just for hair on the market that not just smell good, but make hair feel amazing too.
