Natural Perfumery

ABDESSALAAM ATTAR BLOG POSTS

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The Perfume for the Dress

Ordinary perfumes contain synthetic aromas. A “Natural Perfume For The Dress“ does not. An ordinary skin perfume is a cosmetic product that complies with IFRA’s allergen recommendations. It can contain only very small amounts of natural essences.
A New Ethical Standard Towards Perfume Consumers

A New Ethical Standard Towards Perfume Consumers
The ECLIP List

Fragrantica interview with AbdesSalaam Attar by Naheed Shoukat Ali  08/30/11 12:17:00 For most people the only factor that determines their purchase of a perfume is that they like the smell of it. However, more people every year ask…
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How to make natural perfumes

How to make natural perfumes "Making perfumes is easy", says Guy Robert to his colleagues at the prestigious British Society of Perfumers, link He details with humourism the different ways in which a perfume comes into being. A genesis of…
How to make natural perfume last longer

How to make natural perfume last longer

How to make natural perfumes last longer The skin "drinks" aromatic molecules The nose gets used to smells rapidly The ingredients should be long lasting The concentration The animal scents Addressing his…
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Interview with Luckyscent

March 11th 2020 We've got a special treat for you all this afternoon - a wonderful, illuminating interview with AbdesSalaam Attar of La Via del Profumo Natural Niche Perfumes/AbdesSalaam Attar. Please enjoy! Q: Hello Salaam, thank you for…
Patchouli - Psychology of a perfume

Patchouli – Psychology of a perfume

Patchouli perfume Patchouli is an oil that is essential in many ways in the composition of natural perfumes. It is obtained from the dried leaves of the Patchouli bush, which are macerated in water before being distilled. Its aroma is…
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Aromatherapy in case of pandemics

Pandemics: A Manual for Survival The problem of today's pandemics is a modern problem. The disease is easily recognized, and its modes of propagation are immediately understood, but the common chemical cures and drugs are without effect. When…
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Report on May 2017 Perfumery Course – Third part

FROM GUY USA. Sales Executive Since I was young, I was aware of scents and how they made me feel.  Later in life, I learned that scents are connected to memory. My maternal grandfather was a florist and mother was a gardener.  I grew…
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Report on May 2017 Perfumery Course – Second part

FROM AMIR Iran. Chef I departed from Tehran and arrived at Germano Reale with a little apprehension, as I got my kit only on the last day, and I thought that I would have some difficulties because I had not practised and experimented with…
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Report on May 2017 Perfumery Course – First part

Group dynamics are important in my perfumery classes. A month before the course starts, students get to know each other over a WhatsApp group. The WhatsApp group is dedicated to connecting students through preparatory course goals and to encourage…
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Ninja Perfumers

Perfume is love. Like love, perfume is a bridge between the people Like love, perfume radiates from you and enters the heart of others. Like love, you can learn to love only by loving, you can learn to make perfumes only by making…
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The Perfume – Poetry

(In honor of Burhanuddin) Non sono di certo un santo Sufi Surely a sufi saint I am not ma soltanto l'umile discepolo d'un nobile maestro but only a humble disciple of a noble master e se nei miei sogni, sento il profumo dei fiori del…
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The Perfume – Novel by Patrik Suskin

"The perfume" initiates with the birth of the personage and the author of the book initiates the story revealing the olfactory link that exists between the mother and her child. The mother rejects her baby because he is odorless, he produces…
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Perfumery courses 2016

May 25th to 30th 2016 August 31 to September 5th "Making perfumes is easy" by AbdesSalaam Attar "La Via del Profumo" After 6 years, I am returning to teaching with a summer seminar in the hills of Rimini, Italy from 10th to 15th June…
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New Perfumery Seminar July 2015

Held in English language July 22nd to 27th "Making perfumes is easy" by AbdesSalaam Attar "La Via del Profumo" After 6 years, I am returning to teaching with a summer seminar in the hills of Rimini, Italy from 10th to 15th June 2015. There…
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Perfumery Seminar last day

Distilling the resort "Il Germano Reale". Today is distillation day, D Day, and also the conclusive day of this adventure for my friends. It has been very emotional for many of them, not so much because of the door-opening learning, but…
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Perfumery Seminar Fifth day

Today we unveiled the road that brings from olfactory language to olfactory psychology. Olfactory language enables you to write stories with smells, olfactory psychology gives you an understanding of what stories should be narrated to different…
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Perfumery Seminar Fourth day

The first part of today’s program was to discover the Kit of Animal Scents. Which role they have in perfumery and which effect they have on people. Tri-dimensional perfumes and pheromones. We tinctured muskrat glands and discovered the…
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Second and Third day of Perfumery Course

Yesterday everybody shot a few arrows and realized how innate is archery in us. The world of perfumery is in need of a philosophy and of ethics. What are the state of today's philosophy and ethics? We have perfumes full of chemicals…
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Perfumery Course First day

10 students from 6 different countries came to Italy to follow my course on how to compose perfumes with be best materials of perfumery, the natural ingredients. Several of them have attempted to make perfumes with these ingredients in the…
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Correcting commercial fragrances with animal pheromones

The kit of the practical Phero-researcher From a research made with Basenoters with Hyraceum, Castoreum., Civet musk and Honey bee’s wax Eule: Bal a Versailles –  This scent defies classification for me.  Powdery, musky, animalic,…
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Street Distillation

We have been invited to hold a public demonstration of distillation during an event organized by the city of Rimini. The event, a fair, is about smells and tastes, especially those made by hand, and with a sense of tradition.  Chefs from all…
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Distill Yourself

  Even before I began distilling, I had already reflected on the inner aspect of the distillation process that produced my perfume ingredients. As a perfumer using my essences to cure myself and my family, I had searched for their meanings…
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Distilling Italia, Wallnut Trees

My garden in Italy is a forest of walnut trees, my neighbours are peasants and they do not like walnut trees, they always tell me: "cut these trees, nothing grows under the walnuts". I tell them "I do not cut trees, I plant them". And when…
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Distilling an island: Turunj petit grain

We are back to North Cyprus and the flowers of the Turunj bitter orange trees that we have distilled a month ago have now become small green fruits. We shall distil them together with the leaves to obtain the precious "Petit Grain" essential…
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Distilling an island: Myrtle

   Today we shall distil Mercin; the Cyprus’s Myrtle. The tree is just behind home, in Selma’s garden and she kindly gave us permission to cut the higher branches. Abdu Rauf from America dropped by, he needs a tool from us…
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Distilling an island: Pink Pepper

The perfumes of Maulana's gardens My house in lefke has the most beautiful pepper tree of the village. The pepper tree has long falling branches that dance in the wind as if they were long hairs. From this I imagined that it would be a good…
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Pyramids, Lies and Myths of Modern Perfumery

From my house in Lefke. If you believe that olfactory pyramids published by the industry are meant to give you information about the ingredients or about the smell of a perfume, you are really naive. Pyramids are but a marketing tool used…
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The biggest myth of perfumery

From my house in lefke The biggest of all perfumery myths is that making perfumes is complicated, technical, and time-consuming. It is not true, making perfumes is easy, instinctive, and fast. I have never spent more than 2 hours on any of…
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Old and new myth of perfumery

From my house in Lefke Fixative ingredients are one of the strongest myths of perfumery. If what you intend by fixative is a single molecule that will smell on your skin for hours after all the rest of the perfume has disappeared, then fixatives…
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Debunking the myths of perfumery

From my house in Lefke What makes quality in a perfume? There is no doubt that the quality of a perfume depends only from the quantity of naturals that it contains. There cannot be a good perfume without some amount naturals. There…
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Distilling an Island. Turunj: bitter orange leaves and flowers

THE PERFUMES OF MAULANA'S GARDENS The orange tree is really the symbol of North Cyprus. The Orange grooves are all over and the orange trade was the wealth this region. Turunj, bitter orange tree is called here "father of oranges" because…
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Tri-dimensional and Spiritual Perfumes

By AbdesSalaam Attar on Basenotes It is a mystery why modern men and women, so obsessed with erasing their own bodily smells, are nevertheless so attracted to the animal scents in perfumes that they will consistently prefer fragrances containing…