Our sense of smell is a powerful tool. Wearing perfume to bed can bring us feelings of relaxation, well-being, and overall contentment. These complimenting restful feelings are incredibly beneficial for achieving a good nights sleep.

If you enjoy wearing perfume for yourself during the day, then wearing perfume to bed is a natural way to extend this pleasure and can lead to more restful sleep. How amazing would it be to wake up to the gentle scent of your favourite bed-time fragrance on your sheets?

Feeling calm and relaxed is important if you aim to get a good night’s sleep. Certain fragrances can certainly endorse those feelings of relaxation to ensure you wake up refreshed and happy. On the other hand, if you choose a scent that is too overpowering or heady it might have the opposite effect and keep you awake.

Wearing perfume to bed can certainly improve your sleep if you choose the right one. Light floral scents and calming vanilla can gently brush away any stress or worry so you calmly drift off to sleep thinking of beautiful fragrance and beautiful thoughts rather than letting your worries spin round endlessly in your head.

Aromatherapists have been using fragrances to improve sleep for centuries with the ancient Egyptians burning frankincense and myrrh to improve sleep and the Romans using chamomile in a similar way.

Some key fragrances have been found to help you fall asleep more quickly and sleep for longer with people commenting on feeling more energised after a sleep enhanced by fragrance.

Key fragrances include lavender but also valerian extract, soothing sandalwood and juniper. Each of these has a physiological effect on the body by lowering blood pressure and reducing cortisol levels that can lead to better sleep. Calming scents can also reduce stress levels to help you fall asleep more quickly and make you feel truly relaxed.

As well as improving sleep by helping you to feel calm, some fragrances can help us clear our airways and improve our breathing which helps us to gain a better night’s sleep. This can lead to better sleep for people who suffer from snoring or anyone who has allergies or the symptoms of a cold.

Some Bedtime Perfume Notes

Vanilla
Vanilla has long been held up as a soothing and calming scent which is one of the reasons it is often use as a room fragrance as well as a perfume. It has a positive effect on your mood and can lower stress which is perfect for helping you achieve a better night’s sleep.
Vanilla is also a warming scent that can help trigger happy memories which can again have a relaxing effect on your whole body to help you prepare for sleep. Research shows that vanilla can also lower our startle reflex which will help avoid that falling feeling that can suddenly make us feel wide awake with a jerk.

Lavender
This herb is well known for its relaxing qualities and research has shown it can actually lower blood pressure as well as our heart rates, helping us to fall into a deeper and more rewarding sleep.
Lavender has been used to treat patients suffering from insomnia with some impressive success rates, helping patients avoid or reduce having to use sleep medications.

Bergamot
Citrus-scented bergamot is a great fragrance for clearing your mind and helping you shake off any worries or stress that could be keeping you awake.
It is known for its uplifting qualities and has been used to treat patients suffering from depression. It can aid sleep as it has been known to have a physiological effect on the body in lowering heart rate and blood pressure as well as reducing levels of cortisol that can help us fall asleep more easily.

Lemon
It is natural to associate lemon with feeling wide awake as it is a refreshing and revitalising fragrance often used in shower gels to promote a sense of cleanliness and energy for the day ahead. However, lemon fragrances can also help you get a better night’s sleep as they promote a sense of calm by reducing anxiety and helping you feel more content.
Citrus fragrances can also release serotonin which makes you feel happier and more positive, ready to enjoy a restful night’s sleep. Another feature of lemon that makes it a great bedtime fragrance is that it helps soothe allergy symptoms, reducing mucus and opening the airways for a deeper night’s sleep.

Benefits Of Wearing Perfume To Bed

1. Waking Up Feeling Well Rested
Just as there is nothing worse than waking up feeling like you haven’t had enough sleep, waking up feeling well-rested can energise you and fill you with enthusiasm for the day ahead.

A good night’s sleep is essential if you want to wake up feeling energised, refreshed, and ready for anything. This can have less to do with the number of hours of sleep we have as the amount of truly beneficial sleep we manage within those sleeping hours.

Some people can sleep for ten hours a night and never feel as refreshed as someone with only five or six hours of quality sleep. As we sleep, we shift through cycles of light sleep, REM sleep, and deep sleep.

The best quality sleep that helps our bodies rest and recharge includes longer time in deep sleep which helps with physical recovery and makes us feel more refreshed when we wake.

2. Feel More Positive
Poor quality sleep can affect our mood and lead to negativity and depression. Feeling positive not only helps us to fall asleep, which is where smelling beautiful fragrance can help, but quality sleep also helps us feel even more positive when we wake.

Lack of sleep can increase our stress hormones, making us feel less enthusiastic and less positive as a result. Regular good quality sleep has the effect of lowering our stress levels, making us feel more content and happier.

3. Improves Your Mood
Feeling refreshed and energised after a good night’s sleep instantly improves your mood as well as your cognitive functions. Just as good quality sleep helps lower stress levels and reduces mental fatigue.

Sleep deprivation can lead to anger, irritability and anxiety which can cause long term problems over time. A good night’s sleep can help your mood return to normal and waking up feeling good can lift your spirits and your mood for the entire day.

4. Decreases the Risk of Depression
Over time, sleep depression can affect our mood to the point where fatigue, stress and anxiety can lead to long term problems such as depression. Regular sleep helps to improve our mental health and lower the risk of depression even when we are going through difficult periods in our lives.

When we are feeling stressed, it can be harder for us to fall asleep and spend long enough in quality, deep sleep which is needed to repair our brains and bodies. This is exacerbated when lack of sleep releases even more stress hormones. It is harder to think clearly and stay positive when our brains are under attack from negativity and tiredness.

Regular sleep not only decreases the risk of depression, it can also help people with depression to recover by improving our emotional and mental well-being.

5. Improves Memory
As well as physical reparation, our bodies can improve cognitive function while we sleep. Deep sleep helps improve aspects of memory and learning and as a result, both our working memory and our long-term memory can be improved by regular, good quality sleep.

Sleep helps to consolidate memory which means we can absorb new learning faster and retain it for longer. The brain fog you might feel when you haven’t had enough sleep is grounded in medical science as researchers have proved that sleep deprivation affects our ability to recall and retain information.

Both deep sleep and REM sleep are vital to maintain a healthy brain and memory as our neurons can’t function optimally if they are overworked.

6. Boosts Your Immune System
Sleep researchers have found that quality sleep can actually help you to fight infection by boosting cells known as T cells which the body needs to fight infection.

Lack of sleep means our T cells can’t kill infections as well as in people who have sufficient sleep which means sleep deprivation can lead affect our immune systems and make us more prone to infections such as colds and flu. Regular, quality sleep means our T cells function effectively to boost our immunity and keep us healthy.

7. Reduces Inflammation
Lack of sleep can also trigger inflammation in the body, and the results can be seen after the first night of lost sleep. Inflammation is linked to stress and the immune system, all of which are improved with regular sleep.

Our blood pressure lowers when we sleep which can help our bodies to recharge and reduce levels of inflammation. Inflammation can lead to cardiovascular problems and make us more susceptible to a range of other diseases which can also increase inflammation further.

Regular sleep patterns help the body to manage levels of inflammation to keep us healthy in both mind and body.

8. Maintain A Healthy Weight
Sleep can’t physically help you to lose weight, but regular sleep can help to control your appetite and reduce food cravings that could make you gain weight otherwise. When your body has a regular pattern of sleep, your appetite follows a similar pattern meaning you will only feel hungry at regular points during the day and are less likely to over indulge.

When our brains are lacking sleep, our reward centre struggles and can stimulate food cravings for comfort and energy. We also find it harder to make good choices when we are tired and are far more likely to give in to these food cravings as a result.

Dieters have also noted losing less weight despite consuming the same number of calories when they lose sleep.

Conclusion
It is clear to see that the benefits of wearing perfume to bed can improve both your emotional well-being and physical health so making sure we do all we can to maximise our chances of a good night’s sleep is more a necessity than an indulgence.

Experimenting with different fragrances that help you feel more relaxed at bedtime is not only a fun way to take a new look at your perfume but can be an integral part of keeping you healthy and energised. As well as wearing perfume, the effect can be enhanced by scenting the room with an oil diffuser in the same fragrance.

Once you have begun to form a routine of wearing perfume to bed, it is unlikely you will ever go back. Your whole life is an olfactory experience and bedtime an extra special part of a fragrance enhanced day. Wearing perfume to bed is definitely something we should all do as part of a regular routine for a healthier and happier life.

Source: https://vioralondon.com/wearing-perfume-to-bed/

Ok

Wow i love doing this too.

Do you attend any occassion in your dreams??

If not it's waste of perfume.


The air freshener in your room isn't for fancy

You can wear if you want to see your mummy water wife.

why not just take a shower with a nice smelling soap then rub powder before then going to bed

Sometimes I do wear some perfume to bed, mainly if I'm kind of 'over' a scent and just want to get rid of it, I guess.
Sort of off topic, but I almost always put on deodorant on before going to bed.. Which people think is sort of weird, but I don't want to be sweaty I like to wear it to bed. Studies show that fragrance has the power to affect your mood, reduce stress, and relax your muscles

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lefulefu:
why not just take a shower with a nice smelling soap then rub powder before then going to bed

Lol, we do this back then u know...

modestbrowser:
Do you attend any occassion in your dreams??
If not it's waste of perfume.
The air freshener in your room isn't for fancy

That's where individual differences comes to play, different strokes for different folks

Macsjebs:

Lol, we do this back then u know...

its still done now.a nice smelling powder will make u smell fresh and nice after taking a cool shower

lefulefu:
its still done now.a nice smelling powder will make u smell fresh and nice after taking a cool shower

can't be compared to the therapeutic qualities of oil perfume, I am a perfume lover and can attest to this. lol

Macsjebs:

can't be compared to the therapeutic qualities of oil perfume, I am a perfume lover and can attest to this. lol

hmm ok oo

If you shower before bed and don't feel fresh, go back to the bathroom for a second session. After that and you still smell like a pig, hire a bath helper to help you bath well.

I think someone wants to market something

Op, Why use White ladies' picture to Illustrate this topic??......Dont we have beautiful black ladies that can fit into that pics and give your write up a sweeter taste??

Almost all the threads of Nairaland about the blacks........But in the end, they destroy the whole topic by uploading pics of white Ladies or guys........

And if 'Black is No longer beautiful, You people should let us Know'

Guiness stout would say 'Black is smooth, Black is Ebony'.........Our musicians would say 'Black is beautiful, Black is diamond'

E be like say all these hailings of black na for mouth oo......Cos ayam not understanding our OP's..

Cc:Macsjebs

Modified: Wow.... Thank you, thank you Op.
A very Goodmorning to you!!!

GOFRONT:
Op, Why use White ladies' picture to Illustrate this topic??......Dont we have beautiful black ladies that can fit into that pics and give your write up a sweeter taste??

Lol, thanks
Let's have both colours, that way we don't discriminate

modestbrowser:
I think someone wants to market something

Not really like that Sir,
there is truth in it, it's not what you think, lol

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GOFRONT:
Op, Why use White ladies' picture to Illustrate this topic??......Dont we have beautiful black ladies that can fit into that pics and give your write up a sweeter taste??
Almost all the threads of Nairaland about the blacks........But in the end, they destroy the whole topic by uploading pics of white Ladies or guys........

And if 'Black is No longer beautiful, You people should let us Know'

Guiness stout would say 'Black is smooth, Black is Ebony'.........Our musicians would say 'Black is beautiful, Black is diamond'
A very Goodmorning to you!!!

My Boss you are welcome Sir,
You made so much point, we have to support our brand and be proud of our own but then we all have our individual tastes, lol

Good morning Sir

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are you trying to smell good for spirit husband/wife