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Aldehydes in Perfume Are They Harming Your Health

Aldehydes in Perfume: Are They Harming Your Health?

Are the aldehydes in your favorite perfume harming your health? This controversial topic has been the subject of much debate. Aldehydes are a group of organic compounds commonly used in perfumes to add a unique and long-lasting scent. However,…
Can You Use Essential Oils on Skin as Perfume

Can You Use Essential Oils on Skin as Perfume?

Essential oils have been prized from ancient civilizations to modern-day wellness enthusiasts for their aromatic properties and therapeutic benefits. By harnessing the natural scents of essential oils, you can create personalized perfumes…
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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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.
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Unani Medicine and Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is one of the fastest-growing therapies today, being accepted all over the world as a holistic therapeutic approach in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) that deals with a person’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being…
Triggers of Perfume-Induced Asthma

Perfume-Induced Asthma: Understanding Triggers, Symptoms, and Prevention

Various fragrances and scented products can act as triggers for perfume-induced asthma. Some common triggers include perfumes, colognes, body sprays, scented lotions, air fresheners, and cleaning products. It's important to note that not all fragrances will affect every individual with asthma, as sensitivity can vary.
Natural Perfumes for a Longer Life

Natural Perfumes for a Longer Life

Natural perfumes are not only able to provide pleasant scents but also possess various medicinal properties, which can be used to promote a person’s physical, mental, and emotional health. But it’s important to choose only products that are purely natural and don’t contain any kind of artificial materials. Only then, they can help you live a long, healthy life. 
Scents and Hypertension

Scents and Hypertension

Can essential oils help lower hypertension? They are known for their calming and hormone-balancing effects. Since stress has a direct or indirect influence on developing high blood pressure, essential oils can benefit hypertension by reducing stress and balancing associated hormones such as cortisol and others. Multiple clinical studies have substantiated the beneficial effects of essential oils in managing hypertension.
Perfumes in Personal Growth

The Role of Perfume in Personal Growth

Have you ever guessed the perfumes you wear regularly have a great impact on your personal and professional life? – Yes, the role of perfume in personal growth and development is huge. It’s not merely the scent you wear, perfume says a lot about your individuality and personality including your sense of affection, self-esteem, and confidence.
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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. 
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…
Side Effects of Chemical Perfumes

Side Effects of Chemical Perfumes

Perfumes have historically been used for distinctive pleasant smells that make us feel relaxed and rejuvenated. But the side effects of chemical perfumes have become a major concern nowadays since the vast majority of perfumes are made from hazardous chemicals. Therefore, they are found to be associated with various health complications ranging from asthma to skin allergies to even cancer. 
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…
Neroli Perfume - Citrus aurantium bigaradia

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. 
All Natural Perfumes

All Natural Perfumes

All natural perfumes are by far different than synthetic ones. If you have ever experienced the kind of sense of olfactory opulence natural fragrances can evoke in your body and mind and the healing benefits they can produce for your emotional and physical health, you will definitely understand that pure unadulterated perfumes are undoubtedly priceless gifts of nature that do not have any analogy.
Effects of Scents on Emotions

Effects of Scents on Emotions

Scents are closely intertwined with emotions, moods, memories, and perceptions. They have a great ability to influence both positive as well as negative emotions and may alter your moods either by enhancing or hindering them in certain circumstances. Therefore,…
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Ylang-ylang – Properties, Distillation, and History

Ylang-ylang oil has strong anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antibacterial properties. These actions help alleviate fungal infections and symptoms of malaria. Ylang-ylang has long been used for a range of therapeutic purposes. Modern scientific research has also substantiated many traditional benefits.
What Does Hypoallergenic Mean?

What Does Hypoallergenic Mean?

What does hypoallergenic mean? FDA stated that "There’re no Federal standards or definitions that govern the use of the term ‘hypoallergenic’. The term means whatever a particular company wants it to mean. Manufacturers of cosmetics labeled as hypoallergenic are not required to submit substantiation of their hypoallergenicity claims to FDA."
Toxic Chemicals in Perfumes

Toxic Chemicals in Perfumes

The sense of smell is closely linked to our feelings and emotions. A specific perfume may remind you of your best moment in life, or the scent of warm yummy spices may remind your feeling with your favorite holiday baking. If you ask your…
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Essential Oils for Headaches

Essential oils offer a more effective and safer way to get rid of headaches without using medicines that often come with many unpleasant side effects. The best part of essential oils is that they not only reduce the symptoms of headaches but also help to address the underlying root of the issues causing the headache.
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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.
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.
Ambergris Perfume

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.
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Natural White Musk – Ambrette

 Aromatherapy uses: Essential oils derived from the ambrette seeds emanate a wonderful soft musky smell, making it very beneficial in aromatherapy. The white musk scent of ambrette essential oil has been widely used in aromatherapy for treating anxiety, nervousness, and depression among other emotional imbalances.
Natural Perfumes Benefits

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.
ESSENTIAL OILS FOR DEPRESSION

Essential Oils against Depression

Essential oils have changed the way of improving mental health conditions including depression and stress. In the age of epidemic proportions of side effects of synthetic drugs, many people tend to search for natural ways to get rid of depression. Essential oils have gained enormous popularity over recent years for their natural and harmless benefits.
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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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Lavender essential oil benefits

Lavender has a long history of being used medicinally. Hildegard von Bingen, a German saint and herbalist who lived from 1098-1179, wrote down that she used a mix of alcohol and lavender in order to treat migraines. In the 1600s, the Shakers…
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20. AROMATERAPY IN TIMBUKTU. HEMORRHOIDS AND HEADACHE

The street of the perfume hospital in a day of sand wind   Patients waiting outside the perfume hospital Doctors have always observed strange epidemics of non-contagious diseases, such as epidemics of arthrosis or ulcers. Cosmo-geological…
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Philosophy of perfume (part three): Healing molecules

Healing molecules At the origins, the use of perfumes was associated to spirituality and healing. This is so true that the knowledge of their preparation was reserved to priests and healers, and in many cultures these two figures and…
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21. Aromaterapy in Timbuktu: ringworms and other

Ringworm is a disease that affects children. It makes them suffer a lot, the itching is so strong that they scratch their heads until they bleed, the sores spread and the pain prevents them from sleeping at night. Ringworm makes children's…
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Thoughts from Timbuktu: olfactory jewels

I really did not  choose to become a natural perfumer or to make exclusively natural perfumes. I noticed from the beginning that I could  successfully use natural essences to cure myself while chemical ingredients, which I also used to wear…
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9. LA POLICE DE TOMBOUCTOU

Two policemen in civilian clothes erupted in my hotel one morning. It was early by Timbuktu police standards, that is to say, 9 o’clock. One of them knocked at the door like a madman but without saying, "Police, open the door!" the way…