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The same reason you sweat: evaporative cooling. Many perfumes contain ethyl alcohol which evaporates more quickly than water does. This is why the cooling effects are felt rapidly after the perfume is applied. The process of evaporation has a specific heat of evaporation (ie the amount of heat it takes to go from a liquid phase to a gas phase). This process requires energy from a system to occur. The system in this case would be the surface of your skin. Since the cologned is going from a liquid to a gas, the process is going from an ordered state to a disordered state and is therefore governed by entropy. Heat energy from the skin is transferred to the ethyl alcohol in the cologne causing the cologne to evaporate (cooling the skin in the process).

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