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| Perfume |
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| Perfume Fundamentals |
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| The cosmetic industry has been creating beauty products for
many hundreds of years. The first parfumes to be created where made in ancient
times to honour the Gods
they worshipped |
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| Perfume - “per fumum” comes from the Latin, and means “through the smoke”. In ancient times fragrant resins were burnt in offerings to the gods. Nowadays we understand perfume as being a solution made up of approximately 30% of perfume oils and the remaining made up of alcohol. |
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| A good perfume is made up of three levels:- |
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| Top Note - is the first phase of the perfume's life and plays a major part in the first impression of the perfume. This phase uses light volatile fragrance materials that provide the initial impact of the perfume. |
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| Middle Note - is the intermediate phase where substances with less volatility produce the bouquet for the body of the perfume. |
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| Back Note - is the final phase of the perfume. It should contain the lasting ingredients of the perfume that provide the tenacity. |
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| Different types of Perfume. |
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| The beauty products industry has over the past introduced
different types of parfumes to suite different situations and follow other
trends and are intended to compliment other cosmetic makeup. |
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| Perfume (also called Extract or Extrait Perfume) is the purest form of fragrance and will contain between 15% to 40% of perfume oils making it the most expensive to buy. |
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| Eau de Parfum is a less concentrated perfume containing between 8% and 17% of perfume oils mixed with alcohol. Around 70% of an Eau de Parfum is lost within the first three hours but the back note will persist for twenty-four hours. |
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| Eau de Toilette has a 1% to 6% concentration of perfume oils that produce a light scent that lasts only for a short while. It was originally intended as a refreshing body spray to help wake people up in the morning. |
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| Eau de Cologne is sometimes used in the same context as Eau de Toilette. This type of perfume was a mix of light, fresh and volatile citrus oils. It was intended to be a refreshing perfume with limited life span and was made popular by
Napoleon, although Colognes are less popular today. |
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| Design a Perfume |
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| You can design a perfume for
yourself which is unique to your own characteristics, or design a gift
perfume for a friend or loved one. |
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| We also offer perfume gift
certificates, where you can pre-pay for a fragrance as a gift and allow the recipient to provide their own details for us to create their own unique perfume or aftershave. |
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