Custom Perfume - Your signature scent

Have you ever dreamt of wearing a perfume that is composed only for you entirely on your bespoke request and nobody else wears? If yes, then a custom perfume is the only solution that provides you advantages to compose your distinct signature scent using the dearest scents of your life and can flourish your unique personality and social dignity.

While nearly everyone wears perfumes to represent their artistic sensibility of scents, great people choose their signature scents to express their majestic presence that attracts the admiration of others. However, what is custom perfume? Let’s try to find out together.

What is a custom perfume?
How a custom perfume differs from other perfumes
A brief history of custom perfume
How custom perfumes are composed
Final words

What is a custom perfume?

Custom perfume is a unique and personalized perfume that’s tailored specially for a man or woman with the ingredients of the scents they love most. It is one of the most qualifying services natural perfumers offer with their distinguished competence and experience to compose your very personalized custom fragrance from your chosen natural raw materials.

Since uniqueness is the first and foremost purpose of composing custom perfumes, natural perfumers never use the same ready-made chemical molecules found in mass-producing mainstream perfumes. Only pure and natural ingredients are used to maintain the uniqueness of the scents. Besides, composing a custom perfume takes a lot of craftsmanship and a considerable amount of time.

Therefore, a natural perfumer offers custom perfume services only with very limited editions and never follows a mass-selling strategy.

How a custom perfume differs from other perfumes

Custom perfume is different from other natural perfumes or mainstream perfumes that are available in the market.

A custom perfume is specially composed only for you using your favorite “Scents of the Soul” and it is not available in the market, thus, your signature scent is distinct and nobody else can wear it.

A brief history of custom perfume

Though we may think that the concept of custom perfume is modern, in reality, it is not. It has surprisingly been around since ancient times. Famous historical figures from antiquity including famous sultans, kings, and queens have associated themselves with their own specific personalized perfumes.

There are many historical stories of the past associated with the signature scents of famous rulers. In France, Catherine de Medici, the queen consort of France (1547- 1559), was described to have brought her favorite perfume called “Water of the Queen” (“Aqua della Regina“) when she went to marry Henry II France. It was also the first European perfume to use alcohol instead of mixing it with oil or vinegar.

In India, most of the Mughal emperors and their empresses were fond of their own signature scents called “Attars” in the Mughal period. Empress Noor Jahan, the queen of famous Mughal emperor Jahangir, was a connoisseur of rose perfumes and used to fragrant her bathing water with rose petals. Emperor Jahangir played an important role in the development of cultivation and production of natural perfumes (attars) that continues to this modern day.

The Nizams, the rulers of the Hyderabad state in Mughal times, were used to scent their clothing and living spaces with perfumes specifically made from jasmine flowers called jasmine attars.

In Yemen, Arwa Al Sulayhi, the queen of Yemen, introduced a special variety of floral perfumes made from specific mountainous flowers. She was a devotee of this perfume category and also used to give them as a gift to the kings of Arabia.

In 1371, a perfume was made by a priest, especially for Queen Elizabeth of Hungary. The fragrance was rumored to be what nursed the queen-looking juvenile throughout her lifetime.

Centuries later, in recent times, it has been found that famous figures ranging from royal family members to famous political leaders to celebrities, choose to use specific custom fragrances to access their own art of luxury.

George Washington, the first president of the United States, preferred to use a custom perfume that was light, citrusy, and a polite male fragrance. Many people assume that it was a silent protest against the British Royal since Creed was their favorite.

Ranging from the most revered royal family members such as Princess Diana to historical world leaders like John F. Kennedy to globally renowned authors such as Ernest Hemingway, everyone used to have their own signature scents that represented their distinct personality and dominance.

How custom perfumes are composed

There is a misconception between blending personal scents and composing custom perfumes. It’s not difficult to mix and blend certain finished fragrant essential oils to match your own personal choice of perfume mix.

But when it comes to composing unique custom perfumes, you’ll need some more craftsmanship expertise beyond just mix-and-match blending skills. You will need to have a deep knowledge of the whole process that happens from natural raw substances to beautiful custom scents consisting of several dilution and reaction methods.

Besides, to compose a perfect custom perfume, you’ll also need to have a thorough knowledge of the therapeutic properties of the compounds you want to use in your own signature scent since natural ingredients may produce both healing benefits as well as allergic reactions.

Expert natural perfumers extract and distill several raw materials such as flowers, woods, and resins according to your choice and combine them scientifically to compose your own bespoke perfume.

Niche perfumers have enough competence to carefully analyze several olfactory combinations that can soothe, stimulate, and reassure the reflection of your mood without producing any irritation to your skin or mind.

Therefore, at La Via Del Profumo, we compose your signature fragrance on behalf of you in close accord with your request.

Final words

Custom perfume has historically been used by famous figures including kings, queens, celebrities, political leaders, and royal family members not only just for wearing scents but also for presenting their unique identity and commanding fashionable choices.

But today the use of a signature scent is not limited to only wealthy people, every person who wants to expose their unique identity can wear a custom perfume.

Our perfumer, AbdusSalaam Attar, which is internationally recognized as one of the most capable natural perfumers, offers a custom perfume service where your bespoke fragrance will be composed with the noblest natural ingredients of perfumery.