Fragrance Facts

After The Paris Perfume Museum Visit

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• The word perfume derives from the Latin perfumare, meaning to smoke through.

• Perfumery, as the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, or maybe Ancient China, and was further refined by the Romans and the Arabs.
• Egyptians used fragrances for religious purposes.
• Europeans (between the 16th and 17th centuries) used fragrances for hygiene to make them smell better, to cover-up of unpleasant odors coming from unwashed sometimes even for months  bodies.
• They didn't use bath since they thought it might cause the plague. They believed that hot water opened the pores and makes the body more vulnerable to illnesses.

• The first perfumers used oils and dried leaves and seeds from herbs and spices, nuts, and flowers to mix together.
• Natural ingredients for the perfumes - flowers, grasses, spices, fruit, wood, roots, resins, balsams, leaves, gums, and animal secretions - as well as resources like alcohol, petrochemicals, coal, and coal tars are used in the manufacture of perfumes. Some plants, such as lily of the valley, do not produce oils naturally, therefore only fragrance is collected.
• The manufacturing process for perfume includes collection, extraction, blending, and aging.
• The nice bottles for perfumes were first made to show off.
• To make marketing easier they made separate perfumes for male and female. Now there are even one made for children.

• Humans have between 5 and 6 million of cells that can detect odors in their noses which is a lot but it is nothing compared to dogs which have 220 million of these cells.
• Bactrian camels can smell water from 50 miles (80 km) away.
• As a result of evolution, women have better sense of smell than men.
• The first sense to develop when we are born is the sense of smell.
• We have best sense of smell in our late teens and it deteriorates with time.
• Cells in our noses that sense odors are regenerated every 28 days.
• There are some indications that we can't sense the smells while we are asleep.
• The same fragrance smells differently on different people – the reason for this is that different people have different skin – there’s pH, humidity, hormones, as well as many other factors.
• Perfume applied to body can last approximately to six hours.
• Perfumes often smell more intensively when are applied to hair.
• Rubbing your wrists with perfume is wrong.
• Smells are stronger in the spring and in the summer because the moisture in the air is greater than in autumn or winter.
• Only materials that can be dissolved have smells. That is why, for instance, glass doesn't have smell.

• Fragrance notes are an elements of a method of describing a perfume.
• They are divided into three classes according to the scents that can be sensed in different periods of time after the application and can be top (or head) notes, middle (or heart) notes, and base notes.
• Studying in International Flavors and Fragrances Perfumery School lasts between five and seven years.