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Perfume Aging: How Time Affects Natural Fragrances

Perfume Aging: How Time Affects Natural Fragrances

Explore how aging influences the scent profile of natural perfumes and get tips for proper storage Time affects natural fragrances in several ways, including color and scent profile changes, shelf life, climate change, and storage. The chemical…
A New Ethical Standard Towards Perfume Consumers

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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Aromatherapy Arsenal: Essential Oils for Earache

Earache is a common health concern affecting both adults as well as children. Those who have ever experienced it, know how painful they can be. In today’s critical world of drug side effects, many people are turning to natural essential…
Are There Perfumes Without Chemicals

Are There Perfumes Without Chemicals?

Chemicals can be naturally occurring or man-made. We will need to differentiate between man-made synthetic chemicals, that are found to be toxic and harmful, and those yielded from natural origins, that are found to be environment friendly, as well as beneficial for human well-being.   
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Essential Oils and Emotional Health

There is a subtle but strong connection between essential oils and emotional health. This is the reason why essential oils have historically been used to promote mood and emotional well-being for thousands of years - yay, you probably have…
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Frangipani Perfume

Frangipani perfumes are best known for their distinguished, sophisticated, creamy, lush, fruity, and rich floral scents. It’s both intoxicating and at the same time soft and sweet. It has an incredible ability to fill the heart with a sweet sensual excitement, making it a perfect scent for awakening the sense of love and romance. 
What is Aromatherapy

What is Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy refers to the use of aroma from plant compounds, essential oils in particular, for promoting health and well-being, which has been around for millennia. It encompasses several traditional complementary and alternative therapies…
Essential Oils for Colds and Flu

Essential Oils for Flu

Getting the flu or its symptoms every so often isn’t uncommon, particularly during seasonal changes. Flu viruses are continuously evolving, making it harder to treat them at home, and sometimes could be life-threatening. The use of essential…
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Vanilla Perfume: Properties, Extraction, and History

Vanilla exerts a sweet, warm, creamy, comforting, yet also slightly evocative scent. It represents an intertwined feeling of voraciousness and relaxation that has a distinct complexity of pleasure. It is both fresh as well as nostalgic, relaxing yet invigorating, just like magic in its kind that is universally pleasant and enjoyable.
Perfume Allergy: Symptoms, Causes, and Cure

Perfume Allergy: Symptoms, Causes, and Cure

Allergies are considered one of the most common as well as fastest growing chronic conditions worldwide nowadays. A wide variety of symptoms are associated with allergic reactions that may range from simply making you miserable which is easy…
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Neroli Perfume – Properties, Distillation, and History

Neroli perfume represents a surprising harmony of citrus and floral with unique hints of spices and honey although delicate, distinctive, and utterly refreshing. Neroli is one of the most widely used ingredients in natural perfumery. It tells a unique story, not only about each person who wears it but also about the long history of perfume. 
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Vetiver Perfume: Properties, Distillation, and History

Vetiver oil acts as a natural antioxidant that may help reduce a wide range of inflammations. It also shows antiseptic actions that can help eliminate and inhibit the growth of invasive bacteria. The vetiver oil is also used in messages to improve circulation, metabolism, and digestion. It naturally alleviates muscular aches and soothes joint stiffness and pain.
Essential Oils for Infections

Essential Oils for Infections

Some essential oils have tremendous anti-microbial properties that can heal a large number of infective conditions including ear infections, sinus infections, bladder infections, skin infections, kidney infections, and urinary tract infections among others.
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Turkish Rose – Properties, Distillation, and History

The great physician Ibn-al-Sina, commonly known as Avicenna in modern medicine, was the first scientist who emphasized the beneficial effects of rose essence on the heart and the brain. He praised rose water for its effective benefits on the mind and soul, and its tremendous benefits on brain function and cognitive power. In India, Nur Jahan, Moghul Emperor Jahangir's wife, used to take bath in a pond filled with roses.
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Best Essential Oils for Skin

Choosing the best essential oils for skin that can treat and prevent skin-related issues is the most critical part of caring for skin. Taking care of skin isn’t a one-time job, it’s a lifetime practice that you’ll have to bother throughout your life. As every skin type has different sets of issues, understanding what your skin requires is also an important factor to determine the best essential oils for skin.
Anti-Inflammatory Essential Oils

Anti-Inflammatory Essential Oils

Inflammatory conditions can be treated safely with aromatherapy using certain essential oils. They do not only suppress the symptoms but instead treat the root of the issues.
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Rose Attar

Rose Attars are typically natural essential oils derived from the petals of diverse types of roses. Rose attars are made through the steam distillation process while rose absolutes are collected through the solvent extraction process. The absolutes are more commonly used in the perfumery industry and the techniques of production originated in Persia.
Oakmoss perfume

Oakmoss Perfume

Oakmoss (or oak moss) is one of the most beloved substances to perfumers around the world. It’s a type of fungi lichen that usually grows on the branches and trunks of the oak trees. The essential oil derived from this moss primarily used in perfumery as a fixative or base note. Someone may feel its smell very strong and earthy, but to most perfume lovers oakmoss scent is unique with natural woody and leather-like undernote with no other similarities in the world. 
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Star Anise – Essential Oils benefits

Star anise is the seed pod from the fruit of the Illicium verum plant, an evergreen shrub grown in China, Indo-China, and Japan and sometimes referred to as Chinese star anise and has been used as a medicine and spice for more than 3,000 years. It is a native of Egypt, Greece, Crete, and Asia Minor and was cultivated by the ancient Egyptians.