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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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DIY Natural Perfume Kits: Create Your Summer Fresh Scent at Home
Creating your summer fresh scent at home is a rewarding and joyful activity. Not only does it give you a chance to compose perfumes that reflect your very own personality, but it also provides a deeper appraisal of your art of perfumery.…

History of Perfume
Different cultures around the world prepared and used perfumes in many different interesting ways throughout history. Perfumes were expensive and used by the upper classes to distinguish their nobility. Perfume originated from Western Asia and was further refined by the Arabs, Persians, and Romans and eventually reached the West.

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…

The Art of Perfumery – History and spirituality
Perfumes have been closely linked with human civilizations for thousands of years and the art of perfumery is continuously evolving over time since its origin. In ancient times they were associated with various aspects of life including spiritual,…

Olfactory Psychology
Olfactory psychology refers to the science that describes the effects of smells on the human psyche and nervous system, playing an important role in activating the endocrine system. It involves multiple psychological factors such as emotion, mood, memory, and behavior. Scents have been found closely intertwined with emotion and memory.
Which Niche Perfumery?
Your choice in selecting between mainstream and niche perfumery depends on how you want to wear your scents. Do you want to wear simply a famous scent? Or do you want to wear a unique scent and be remembered due to your unique smell?
If you have allergies and higher sensitivity to some substances, you’ll need to consider only natural perfumes that typically come under the group of natural niche perfumes.
Perfumery courses 2016
May 25th to 30th 2016
August 31 to September 5th
"Making perfumes is easy" by AbdesSalaam Attar "La Via del Profumo"
After 6 years, I am returning to teaching with a summer seminar in the hills of Rimini, Italy from 10th to 15th June…
New Perfumery Seminar July 2015
Held in English language
July 22nd to 27th
"Making perfumes is easy" by AbdesSalaam Attar "La Via del Profumo"
After 6 years, I am returning to teaching with a summer seminar in the hills of Rimini, Italy from 10th to 15th June 2015. There…
Perfumery Seminar last day
Distilling the resort "Il Germano Reale".
Today is distillation day, D Day, and also the conclusive day of this adventure for my friends.
It has been very emotional for many of them, not so much because of the door-opening learning, but…
Perfumery Seminar Fifth day
Today we unveiled the road that brings from olfactory language to olfactory psychology.
Olfactory language enables you to write stories with smells, olfactory psychology gives you an understanding of what stories should be narrated to different…
Perfumery Seminar Fourth day
The first part of today’s program was to discover the Kit of Animal Scents.
Which role they have in perfumery and which effect they have on people. Tri-dimensional perfumes and pheromones.
We tinctured muskrat glands and discovered the…
Second and Third day of Perfumery Course
Yesterday everybody shot a few arrows and realized how innate is archery in us.
The world of perfumery is in need of a philosophy and of ethics. What are the state of today's philosophy and ethics? We have perfumes full of chemicals…
Perfumery Course First day
10 students from 6 different countries came to Italy to follow my course on how to compose perfumes with be best materials of perfumery, the natural ingredients. Several of them have attempted to make perfumes with these ingredients in the…
Genesis of perfumes
"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…
REAL PERFUMES FOR REAL PEOPLE
A perfumer who looks for inspiration inside himself is not only very limited, but he also risks ending up into an ego trip completely incompatible with true inspiration, as by definition inspiration transcends the person who receives it.
I…
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Custom perfumes reviews
From Reiu on Basenotes
First thoughts:
I’m stunned. Awestruck. Words don’t do this justice, but I must try. My very first thought was, it’s as if Salaam gathered precious flowering plants from an imagined fantasy land and transformed…
Custom Discovery Set
Olfactory Jewels Custom Discovery Set
Choose at least five bottles (5,5 ml.)
The wooden case is given with six bottles.
Your Custom Perfume
Your Custom perfume
by AbdesSalaam Attar, Perfumer Composer
COMPOSE YOUR OWN "SCENT OF THE SOUL"
Imagine a custom perfume tailored specially for you with the scents of your life that are dearest to you.
Your bespoke custom perfume…
Introduction to Natural Perfumery
Introduction to Natural Perfumery
The Essence of an Art
Since the remotest ages, perfume has been synonymous with wealth, culture, and refinement. The natural perfumery art and craft were associated with the profession of a physician, a…