Perfume - fragrant symphony

The creation of a new fragrance can be compared to the creation of beautiful music. There should always be a balance between the top, middle and base notes. The top note, such as citrus flavors, is the most volatile ingredient and tends to evaporate rapidly. When you smell perfume, the top note is the fragrance that you feel at first.

Medium notes, consisting of most floral scents, are the heart of the fragrance and usually make up the bulk of the mixture.

Finally, the base notes give a depth of smell and act as a fixer for the most volatile components. With the exception of roses and jasmine, they tend to be heavier, richer flavors.

All spirits are divided into floral, oriental, fruit, green and oceanic / ozone.
The flower category includes flavors of flowers, such as rose, carnation, daffodil, ylang-ylang, tuberose and violet.

Oriental - the smells of the forest, spices, herbs, resins, musk and amber. These include cinnamon, nutmeg, patchouli, sandalwood and incense.

The fruit category includes various fruit flavors, such as bergamot, peach, apple and mandarin.

Green flavors include scents of pine, oak and lavender.

Finally, a relatively new ocean / ozone family of fragrances is made of synthetic products to imitate the smells of the ocean, mountain air or freshly washed linen.
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, perfumes were still sold in small shops where they were made. However, by the end of the nineteenth century, the production of perfumes began to develop industrially with the use of synthetic materials.

In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the use of pure essential oils in perfumes. This follows the huge global popularity of organic substances and growing environmental awareness. For decades, aromatherapists believed that the use of pure essential oils can have a positive effect on the human body, both physically and psychologically. Manufacturers of perfumes recognize the benefits that improve health and mood, the use of natural vegetable oils in their fragrances.

Another important element in perfumery is the role of fixatives. Their task is to bind fragrant "notes" together, and also to prevent evaporation of the spirits too quickly. Perfume, equivalent to androstenone, is musk, which is widely used as a fixative in perfumery. This gives warm sexuality to any scent.

Musky smells have long been popular in all cultures. Initially, musk was extracted from musk sacks of Asian musk deer. Hunting for musk deer today is forbidden. Musk is the most expensive product of animal origin. Now many synthetic musk flavors have appeared on the market.

Most of the fixatives used in perfumes, such as myrrh and incense, are balsams and resins. Mirra is an exotic smell reminiscent of church or temple incense. This is the yellow tar of the thorny shrub of Commiphora.

Incense is the resin of the Boswellia tree. People believed that the use of incense allows them to communicate with the gods. Both myrrh and incense have a long history of use in making fragrances, they are mentioned in the Bible.

Another intriguing fixator in perfumery, largely replaced by synthetic, is amber, which is a solid waxy blackish substance. Ancient Egyptians burned the ambience, like incense, used it and the ancient Chinese. Currently, it is rarely used, it was replaced by synthetic materials.