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How to make natural perfume 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 colleagues in his speech at the prestigious British Society of Perfumers, Guy Robert said very iconoclastically:

“Lasting power is not easy to achieve, nobody knows how and why this is happening”, he further added: “I hate that theory of fixateurs and find it stupid“. We all know these many little songs we are hearing anywhere and forgetting almost immediately, but from time to time, one of these songs sticks in our brain and we carry on whistling it the whole day …   I can assure you the author of these successful songs does not use any “fixatives ingredients” to get that result …”

Let us keep in mind that he was not addressing an audience of students, but his knowledgeable peers in perfumery. He was saying what they all knew. When the man who composed Madame Rochas, Caleche, Equipage, Gucci Parfum, and Dioressence says that nobody knows how lasting power in a perfume is reached, and why it is happening, I am not going to contradict him.

The “fixative ingredient” is the most widespread myth of perfumery. The industry has made it up in order to trick customers into believing that making perfumes is difficult and should be left to professionals like them.

The truth is: anybody can make perfumes. Children in my workshops come up with smells that stupefy me. Read more

How to make natural perfume 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 colleagues in his speech at the prestigious British Society of Perfumers, Guy Robert said very iconoclastically:

“Lasting power is not easy to achieve, nobody knows how and why this is happening”, he further added: “I hate that theory of fixateurs and find it stupid“. We all know these many little songs we are hearing anywhere and forgetting almost immediately, but from time to time, one of these songs sticks in our brain and we carry on whistling it the whole day …   I can assure you the author of these successful songs does not use any “fixatives ingredients” to get that result …”

Let us keep in mind that he was not addressing an audience of students, but his knowledgeable peers in perfumery. He was saying what they all knew. When the man who composed Madame Rochas, Caleche, Equipage, Gucci Parfum, and Dioressence says that nobody knows how lasting power in a perfume is reached, and why it is happening, I am not going to contradict him.

The “fixative ingredient” is the most widespread myth of perfumery. The industry has made it up in order to trick customers into believing that making perfumes is difficult and should be left to professionals like them.

The truth is: anybody can make perfumes. Children in my workshops come up with smells that stupefy me. Read more

“You will not be an artist until you make things that children love”

The making of custom perfumes is the key to understanding the work of a perfumer.

In nearly all cases we compose perfumes for someone or else with someone.

The first case is that of a company who wants a new fragrance.  It will give a brief and we shall start making a set of proposals.

These will be presented to a person of the company who is in charge of the valuation of the fragrances. This “évaluateur” will judge the samples with different criterions, one of which will be the reaction of other persons to them.
It may be a board of specialists, some company’s employees or his own friends and family.

It depends on how far he brings his job into his private life.

Because the work of building the fragrance is based on a brief, this type of perfumes can be called “custom concept perfumes” Read more