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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Have You Ever Wanted to Know What Perfume Really Is?
Posted on September 28, 2008 | Tagged with: aldehydes, amber, base notes, celebrities, channel no 5, christian dior, dolce vita, essential oils, exotic, florals, fragrance, fruit, heart notes, herbal, middle notes, patchouli, rose, scents, spice, top notes, wood | Leave a Comment
Perfume is simply alcohol with a fixative combined with essential oils or chemically produced scents. Whilst cologne is basically perfume watered down. Perfume typically contains 30% essential oils and colognes only 1-2%.
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Perfumes And Colognes - Balance And Notes
Posted on September 7, 2008 | Tagged with: balance, base notes, cologne, eau de cologne, eau de parfum, eau de toilette, essential oil concentration, essential oils, fragrance notes, ingredients, manmade products, middle notes, natural materials, notes, perfume, scent, top notes | Leave a Comment
The fragrance of a perfume or cologne is determined by the ingredients it contains and by the balance between those ingredients.
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