#5 : Rose.
Rose is the symbol of Woman in some religions and, among other, in litterature. Widely used in perfume creation, it is often accompanied with violet to give floral, feminine and delicate smells.
This flower can give differents facets, according to its origine.
Produced in France (more precisely in Grasse), rose is called “Rose de Mai” or “Rose Centifolia”. Honey and waxy, it distinguish itself from the fruity scent of the Turkish one. More fresh and smelling like the litchee, it is called “Rose Damascena”.
Both are extracted by volatile solvent extraction, thus giving a concrete in a first time, and after a second extraction, an absolute. In contrary, the essential oil is obtained by vapour extraction.
An ancient technique is the “enfleurage” (fresh flowers put on animal waxes) but it is not used anymore.
Composed by 300 different chemical compounds, rose is probably the most hard scent to replicate.
Perfumes, made in France or not, always contains rose in more or less high quantities, most in feminine creations sur as “soliflores” or “floral bouquets” (Joy of Jean Patou, Paris of Yves Saint Laurent …)
(c) Laure BOYER, April 24th, 2012.
#4 : Vanilla.
Do you want a feminine, sweet, and ambery breath for your brand ?
Put vanilla in your personalized perfume !
Vanilla-pod is the fruit of an orchid. Picked green on the tree, they become black after a long treatment. Pods are widely used for cooking, but they are also put under an alcoholic maceration to give a “teinture” for fine perfumery.
Extremely expensive, perfumers replace it with a synthetic molecule in their compositions : the vanilline.
(c) Laure BOYER, February 8th, 2012.
#3 : Sandal wood.
Sandalwood is found in the region of Mysore, India. The essential oil is obtained from its trunk, ground to dust, then distilled with water steam.
These trees begin to be endangered because of their illegal cutting . That’s why the sandal of Mysore is so expensive.
Widely used to make incense, in a perfume creation, it gives woody bottom notes, and it helps to fix a fragrance.
Sandalwood sublimates both men and women perfumes with its milky, smoky facets.
(c) Laure BOYER, February 8th, 2012.