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FRAGRANCE FAQ'S
All Your Scent Questions Answered
Your one-stop Q and A for demystifying the world of scent as unlike most products, perfumes and colognes do not come with a set of instructions.
We’ve rounded up the most frequently asked questions and have asked KiKi D, our scent specialist, the best tips on one the world’s most infatuating and mystifying luxury products.
THANKSGIVING SCENT SCORES FOR HIM
How He Can Sport The Right Fragrance
Thanksgiving is not necessarily always about delicate cranberry appetizers, fluffy buns that steam when you tear them and turkey that falls gracefully off the bone. It is not always about family staying in the guest room, and cinnamon-scented candles wafting through the air under the crisp smell of impending snow.
For some, Thanksgiving is a 24-hour vacation laden with belching, beer and football—- not the place for a suit or a sophisticated and sensual cologne. So suggest your man gear up f...
THE GUIDE
The Fragrance Finder, created by Michael Edwards, offers a simple solution to choosing new fragrances from the vast assortment offered in the market place. “Finding the right fragrance is almost as hard as finding the right man,” stated Allure Magazine.
His simple solution groups fragrances into families, similar to wine. Just as there are Chardonnays, Sauvignon Blancs, Rieslings and Chenin Blancs, all of which are white wines, likewise, Oriental fragrances may be grouped in Flora...
FROM WHENCE WE CAME
The History Of Perfume
The right perfume will waft around you like a dream, leaving a trail of allure and mystery for passerby to get swept up in as they pass. This same air of decadent importance has followed perfume from its inception into history up to modern day, remaining a meaningful and luxurious human practice since ancient times.
Perfume.com demonstrates the new era of a technologized and personalized fragrance market where you’re in control of your shopping experience! Our low prices and specialized fr...
DECADES OF DECADENCE
Perfumes Of The 20th Century
After the turn of the 19th century social change became quick and constant, pushed ahead by wars, technology and social movements—- and people’s morals, tastes and fashions shape-shifted to keep pace with the ways society was persistently advancing.
While people were partying like it was 1899, in the fragrance world three notable perfumers were making significant moves: Francois Coty, Ernest Daltroff and Jacques Guerlain. Coty was the first to explore the use of absolutes (extracting solvent...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Alexander McQueen (16 March 1969–11 February 2010) was originally a tailor by trade, but once this caterpillar emerged as a creator of butterfly-beautiful designs, he turned out to be one of the most creative and controversial designers of modern fashion. Alexander McQueen’s time on earth was cut short by suicide just days before the start of 2010’s London Fashion Week.
Even before McQueen joined the ranks of the most coveted designers in the world, he was intense, outspoken and d...
VANILLA
Soft Balsamic Facet
Vanilla absolute is obtained from the seed pod of the tropical orchid Vanilla Planifolia which is grown commercially in Madagascar. The seed pods are green when they form but do not display the characteristic odor of vanilla, which has to be coaxed out by a specific fermentation process. Fine grade vanilla will take 18 months of treatment before it will be used in perfumery. The finest quality – vanilla bourbon – takes some 24 months to produce. The scent is intense, warm, very soft and balsa...
HOW'D YOU EVEN DO THAT?
Perfume Manufacturing Techniques
Although it wasn’t always this way, in this day and age there are a multitude of ways of obtaining natural and artificial ingredients for fragrance creation. Modern manufacturing processes can quickly generate hundreds of diverse ingredients to create an infinite number of scent combinations.
A nez may choose as many as 800 different ingredients or take several years to find the recipe for the perfect scent. Even still, due to both technological and social limitations, manufacturing fragra...
ALDEHYDES
Aldehydes were first discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century but proved very difficult for perfumers to harness. They are produced through the refraction of petrol, or benzene compounds. Aldehydes are known by numbers that are pre-fixed with the letter C which stands for Carbon. Aldehydes with odd numbers (from C12 down) smell sparkling, and seem to make other ingredients shimmer or vibrate. A fragrance which contains a large quantity of them is referred to as aldehydic. Aldehyde...
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