Leo Style Tips From Napoleon

Want the ultimate Leo style tips? Read on. The French revolutionary Napoleon Bonaparte was, depending on who you’re talking to, either a military genius or a dangerous megalomaniac. He was also a triple Leo and evidently extremely attractive, although his vanity was legendary.

Born with the Sun, Mercury, and Midheaven in Leo, his self-care rituals – even under ridiculous duress – were metaphysically uplifting and part of his brand. If you’re a Leo or aspiring to overthrow an oppressive regime whilst also becoming an enduring fashion icon, these tips could help. Actually, their timeless nature makes them inspirational for anyone seeking to bust a style rut.

(1) Shun the cold. While perfectly capable of waging military campaigns in freezing weather, Napoleon insisted every room in any house he was in was bright, warm, and well-lit. Additionally, he always kept his neck warm and the back of his neck covered – suggesting a Traditional Chinese Medicine influence. In T.C.M, some winds can be pathogens and the back of the neck is particularly vulnerable.

(2) Create your own cologne and use it liberally. Napoleon loathed bad smells and went through liters of cologne a week. The two most associated with him were called Aqua Mirabilis (Miracle Water) and St Helena’s Cologne. They were both aromatics with loads of therapeutic and vitality-boosting herbal essences: lemon, thyme, and rosemary in particular. He splashed them on continuously and claimed they helped him think – rosemary is apparently brilliant for the brain. He was said to have smelled sensational.*

Napoleon Used Litres Of Cologne A Week

(3) Avoid dark clothes. Napoleon’s aversion to them went so far that he did not like to spend too much time with people wearing black or blue.  For someone as Leo as he was this sort of makes sense – he identified with the Sun and with daylight. Or, in an era when people in mourning would don somber clothes for months to signal bereavement, he may have been superstitious.

(4) Consider Cat Naps. This apparently is not good for you because you never get REM sleep but Napoleon slept approximately six to seven hours of every 24 hours but in increments – an hour here, three hours there.

(5) Power-bathing. Napoleon took many meetings in his bath – usually with rose water and almond milk to soften his skin – and considered the ideas he hatched there to be among his best.

Take All Meetings In The Bath

(6) Diligent Dry-Brushing. Centuries before it was a fashionable, standard detox recommendation, Napoleon was dry skin brushing with some form of loofah every single morning.

(7) See positivity as self-discipline. He thought it was poor form to talk about fatigue, particularly when you were the boss of everything, and was obsessive about maintaining a cheerful demeanor.

(8) Adopt a talismanic personal symbol. Napoleon’s was the Bee and he had it embroidered or emblazoned onto practically everything he wore. You can see his groovy occult Bee and Serpent belt buckle below.

*Napoleon wore SO much cologne that some historians suspected that it might have killed him. But the winning theory seems to be that his enemies poisoned him with arsenic when he was in exile on the island of St Helena.