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What are the different types of notes in fragrance?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Citrusy and Fresh These are the notes that make you feel fresh and almost light headed for a moment. They are responsible for almost all the top notes that define the spectrum of hesperidic fruits. Greek mythology’s nymph Hesperidia was the inspiration behind the name and these are fruits or...
So what can be the ingredients for a perfume?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Well, the ingredients can be natural - flowers, grasses, spices, fruits and what not or they can be animal secretions and charred wood, or synthetically designed scents, have you begun to wonder yet? Alcohol and sometimes water is used to dilute these ingredients; which also determines their concentration and...
Is Perfumery a Science?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Yes, it is an exact science and throwing all the ingredients into a hot stewing pot to funnel out a perfume is not the way how it is done. It takes a lifetime of study and practice aimed at perfecting this scientific art of layering one note on the...
What is the Purest Form of Perfume?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Parfum is the purest form of perfume and it is also known as extrait de parfum or pure perfume. Apparently it has the highest fragrance concentration anywhere from 15% to 40%. However in practicality it is 20% to 30% and they claim to last the longest which is usually 6...
What is fragrance Concentration?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Tricky is another word for the percentage of aromatic compounds contained in the solvents, wouldn’t you agree? Adding further to the dilemma are the companies that follow different guidelines. Fragrance concentration is simply how strong or light a perfume is. It is the sheer strength that a fragrance hits...
Selecting the Right Scent
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Fragrances have evolved over millennia and still continue to captivate and confuse us. This is what makes shopping for the right perfume overwhelming, especially with an ocean of options. Your aroma is what lingers in the room even after you have long retired for the night. For those who...
How are the fragrances of the new millennium different?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
The new age demands a new kind of fragrance for every occasion. Modern technology never fails to deliver aromas that entice your very being and change with every passing hour. Today our perfumes last all day with ingredients that improve our mood. You can either seek calmness in a...
What were designers doing with perfumes?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
The 50s saw the arrival of Youth Dew, the first concentrated perfume oil and what came later in the 70s was a war of scents. Names like Bill Bass, Halston, Gucci and Pierre Cardin were the warriors that set foot in the aroma arena. They still continue to come...
What Led To the Perfumes of the Present?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
It was a fragrance created from moss and spices by Rene Coty that ascended to become an entire category of fragrances in 1917. Followed by that were Aldehydes which were the first aroma chemicals and unlike anything anybody had created. Coco Chanel endorsed this clean and ozone like...
Who found out about distillation of perfumes first?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Now that fragrances had gone the French way it was the 1600s that saw the dawn of the Hungarian water. A stable perfume of its kind was made by combining a rosemary extract with distilled alcohol.
Why were fragrances so desirable in ancient times?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Fragrances were extracted from hard to catch animals and rare plants, woods, herbs and spices especially from the Middle East and lands Far East. This made them even more valuable and precious and that is one big reason why people offered them to gods, tyrants and emperors. How...
How did our ancestors contain and store perfumes?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
Interesting question and what evolved with these perfumes were their bottles. They were all the more interesting too and often were as gorgeous, exotic and elaborate as the fragrant oils they contained. The earliest crafted perfume bottles are believed to be as old as 1000 B.C. People in ancient Egypt...
When and by whom were perfumes synthesized for the first time?
Posted on दिसंबर 09 2020
As the obsession over fragrances intensified in Europe, England started containing aromatics in lockets and hollow heads of canes that were later sniffed by the owner. The late 1800s saw the use of synthetic chemicals to mass market perfumes for the first time. Nitrobenzene; the first chemical perfume was made...
Where does the origin of perfumes lie?
Posted on दिसंबर 08 2020
It was the year 2004 to 2005 when archaeologists discovered in Pyrgos and Cyprus what many argue to be the world's oldest surviving perfumes that date back to more than 4000 years. Ancient perfumeries existed that made use of stills, mixing bowls and funnels and bottles to extract scents from...
Fragrance and royalty, how are they connected?
Posted on दिसंबर 08 2020
European royal families were not new to the art of perfumery either. It existed there since as early as 1221. In the year 1370 at the behest of Queen Elizabeth of Hungary scented oils and alcohol solutions were combined to produce the famous Hungary Water. This fragrant art prospered in...
ALL ABOUT FRAGRANCE
Posted on दिसंबर 08 2020
Fragrance, you can feel it in the air. You know something stirs but you can’t really put a finger on it. A presence hovers and lingers about or maybe you are just imagining things! It’s probably all in your head or something in the drink. A fragrance does no talking...
What is Perfumery and where did it begin?
Posted on दिसंबर 08 2020
The art of making perfumes is called Perfumery which is believed to have begun in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Later refined by the Romans and Persians, it has also been mentioned in one of the earliest Hindu Ayurvedic texts, Charaka Samhita and Sushutra Samhita. Where does the word come...
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