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Creating Resinous Perfumes: A Novice Perfumer’s Guide
Resinous perfumes are a category of fragrances composed of various types of resins as a base note upon which the rest of the scents are built. Resins, also known as balms, are thick, sticky, viscous substances exudated from trees. When resins…

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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Natural Perfumes for Summer
Traditionally, summer perfumes are soft and lighter citrus notes, light spices, flowery smells, and herbs where in contrast, winter perfumes are strong and heavier with notes like musk, cedar, leather, and heavier spices. Instead of choosing synthetic fragrances from your local department or fragrance store that may have some potential adverse effects on your body and mind, consider choosing our natural perfumes that are citrusy, floral, and absolutely emulate the smells of summer.

Danger of musk ketone in perfumes
Musk ketone is widely used as a synthetic alternative to natural musks and is extensively found in various consumer products such as perfumes, cosmetics, soaps, lotions, sprays, and detergents. Studies have revealed a number of dangers of…

Ambergris Perfumes – History, smell and benefits
Ambergris is an animal pheromone and works well with several natural perfume oils such as oud, sandalwood, rose, and jasmine. Like all animal pheromones, it shows significant effects on hormonal activities, making it a very popular aphrodisiac for men and an infertility cure for women.

Natural Perfumes Benefits
Wearing natural perfume is one of the most traditional luxuries which has been used since ancient ages. In the early days, perfumes were made truly based on natural ingredients, and physicians used natural fragrance oils to prepare diverse types of medicines.
Aromatherapy benefits: Natural perfumes or essential oils have been used for therapeutic purposes for centuries. Most natural fragrance oils have significant healing properties that are effective in improving the body, mind, and soul.
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,…
Thoughts from Timbuktu – fixatives
Our customs change as generations pass but the words of our language remain, some of them taking a different meaning or even becoming misleading.
A century ago perfumes were largely used on handkerchiefs, scarves and gloves rather than…
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.…
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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TheNonBlonde.com – La Via del Profumo- Sharif review
TheNonBlonde.com - La Via del Profumo- Sharif review
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Coco Chanel famously said " Elegance is refusal". It can be applied to many things, including the idea of nobility that AbdesSalaam Attar, the perfumer…
Civet or civet cat
Civet or civet cat, any of a large group of mostly nocturnal mammals of the Old World family Viverridae (civet family), which also includes the mongoose.
Civets are not actual cats, but the civet family is related to the cat family (Felidae).
Most…