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The Role of Terpenes in Natural Fragrances

The Role of Terpenes in Natural Fragrances

At the heart of natural scents lie compounds called terpenes. Terpenes are a manifold class of organic compounds produced by a variety of plants, particularly conifers, and are responsible for the distinctive aromas of many herbs and flowers.…
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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…
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The Benefits of Natural Perfumes for Kids’ Wellbeing and Peace

In today’s fast-paced tech-savvy world, where artificially produced synthetic fragrances are overwhelmingly omnipresent, parents are eagerly turning to natural perfumes to benefit their kids’ wellbeing and peace. Natural fragrances are…
Perfume and the Sense of Smell

Perfume and the Sense of Smell

According to the modern aspect of neuroscience, perfume, and the sense of smell seem closely intertwined due to the brain's anatomy. Our sense of smell surpasses our other sensory experiences and stands out extraordinarily. For centuries,…
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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.…
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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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Ayurveda and Aromatherapy

Ayurveda and aromatherapy are closely correlated and are very complementary to each other in terms of healing the body, mind, and soul in a holistic manner. While Ayurveda aims to address the imbalances of energetic dispositions in the body…
Antibacterial Essential Oils

Antibacterial Essential Oils

The concept of using essential oils to combat infections isn’t anything new. Besides, modern studies found that certain essential oils can effectively kill micro-organisms including bacteria, viruses, and fungi without becoming resistant, making these essential oils great antimicrobial resources in modern medical science.
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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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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Botanical Extracts in Natural Perfumery

In recent years, with the increasing scenario of health concerns using synthetic fragrances, there has been a shift towards natural perfumes as many people seek safe and natural ingredients in their favorite perfumes. Botanical extracts are natural, safe, and perfect for enhancing the quality of perfumery products. 
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Ginger Essential Oil Benefits

Benefits of ginger oil in medicines Ginger oil’s digestive and detoxifying actions enhance the digestion process and help to eliminate toxins from the body. Besides, it alleviates discomforts associated with the bowel and stomach, including dyspepsia, diarrhea, stomach ache, flatulence, spasms, and colics.
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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.
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Interview with Luckyscent

March 11th 2020 We've got a special treat for you all this afternoon - a wonderful, illuminating interview with AbdesSalaam Attar of La Via del Profumo Natural Niche Perfumes/AbdesSalaam Attar. Please enjoy! Q: Hello Salaam, thank you for…
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Aromatherapy in case of pandemics

Pandemics, a manual for survival The problem of today's pandemics is a modern problem. The disease is easily recognized, and its modes of propagation are immediately understood, but the common chemical cures and drugs are without effects. When…
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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,…
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Sniffapaloozza interview with perfumer AbdesSalaam Attar

RB: Dominique, I must tell you, you have a fascinating website and blog. You have articles on all sorts of fascinating subjects as well as carry many products - I love your website.  Tell us about what you have created.  "Create"…
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Perfumery and aromatherapy

Honoring the guest is much more than a part of the tradition of Islam, it is part of its fundamentals. During my years of traveling in the Muslim world, I have been a guest all the time. This is how I have learned the art of receiving guests. When…
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20. Ali Ittiram medicinal plants

  Gorboy tree (wild dates). Probably the most important of his remedies. Saboy tree Amalagia tree Camel dungs Ganda Dar grass (black) Ganda Dar grass (white) Shells from the river Niger The gum tree Ginger roots   …
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25. Desert doctors

The "king" of the Tuareg, as Ali calls him, has made an empty warehouse available for us to use as a clinic. Today is the day for appointments with the sick. The "king" himself gets his eyes, damaged by the winds and the sand, treated by…
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1. To my daughters

Children should have an understanding that money is not just for buying things. In any amount that comes to us there is always a part for the poor. A person with money, is responsible for giving some of it to someone who needs it. The other…
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21. Baba Farid’s restaurant

Every day in Pakpattan many people arrive, coming to pay a visit to the tomb of Baba Farid, to greet him, to pray in his mosque and to invocate God with the hope that their prayers will be answered by virtue of their nearness to the saint’s…