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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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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…
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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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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…
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Hyraceum, tincturing a 10,000 years old pheromone

The tincture is obtained by infusing the powdered raw material into pure organic non denatured alcohol 96°. Hyraxes seem to be quite average little critters, resembling an over-grown guinea-pig and famous almost solely for being the closest…
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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…