Why The Best Fragrances Come Straight From Flowers
Posted on October 31, 2008 | Tagged with: aromas, bulgaria, essential oils, flower, fragrance, france, fruit, herbal, jasmine, leather, resins, rose, smell, united states, ylang-ylang | Leave a Comment
Surely, you have heard the popular phrase, “Stop and smell the roses”, typically this means you should take it easy, slow down, and enjoy the pleasures in life before they pass you by. When you are walking through a flower garden or someone gives you a beautiful bouquet of flowers, what is the first thing you do? Unconsciously without even being aware of it, you smell them. Many of us love the smell of flowers and when we purchase our own flowers, we do so because we enjoy the smell. This is how perfume developers entice us to buy their particular fragrances; by using the flower smells we love the most.
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What Is The Real Difference Between Perfumes And Colognes?
Posted on October 25, 2008 | Tagged with: application, base notes, cologne, duration, france, perfume, pheromones, smell, splash bottle, spray, three layered perfumes, top notes | Leave a Comment
Perfumes and colognes as well as other scented products have been used for centuries to trigger responses in our body from our acute sense of smell which is the strongest of our senses. They are not made one for women and the other for men, rather the difference is in intensity with perfumes having the strongest and long lasting scent and colognes being less strong and of shorter duration.
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Why Do So Many Women’s Perfumes Come Out Of France?
Posted on October 16, 2008 | Tagged with: application, cannes, chemical, citrus, eau de cologne, fragrance industry, fragrance market, france, grassed, perfume industry, synthetic, womens perfume | Leave a Comment
It sure seems like nearly every quality women’s perfume comes from France, which has been the center of the fragrance industry for over 300 years. The actual beginnings of using fragrance have different origin though.
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