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A New Ethical Standard Towards Perfume Consumers
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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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Leathery Perfumes
In perfumery, there is no leather essential oil or a natural essence of leather. Perfumers compose a leather accord using various materials such as castoreum, birch tar, juniper, oud, labdanum, styrax, tobacco, benzoin, or, unfortunately, other man-made synthetic molecules like aldehydes to impart a leather-like scent to perfumes.
What is an Attar?
Attars are basically highly concentrated perfumes, free from alcohol and synthetic chemicals. Attars are respected as an identity of majesty, honor, and glory. Attars have an extremely long shelf-life and don’t need any preservatives.
Non-Toxic Perfumes
A non-toxic perfume is simply a perfume that is free from any toxic ingredients such as synthetic alcohol, aroma chemicals that may harm you. Non-toxic perfumes are typically made from natural ingredients using only aromatic materials that are directly extracted from natural flora and fauna.
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,…
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…
Goat Hair Tincture and Human Pheromones
Time ago I received two samples of goat musk from Gayla of the Always Enough Ranch in California where she breeds goats. She wrote:
" I know they have musk glands behind their horns, but I believe they exude musk through their urine too.…
Perfumer’s perversion
I just received from South Africa a new essence that is not yet available on the international market of raw material for perfumers.
The bottle had leaked a bit and the wrapping of the parcel was perfumed.
The power of this essential oil…
Tri-dimensional Perfumery
My search for the real musk deer scent has carried me in some of the farthest spots of the Hindu Kush but at last, I found it from its fount.
I fully understand the need of all perfumers for a sustainable musk scent substitute, but the…
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Animal scents
Animal scents
In the past, perfumers used large amounts of aromatic substances produced by some animals.
Today their price and their rarity prohibit their use in the modern scents of mass perfumery. The molecules of synthesis, poor substitutes,…