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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.

How to make natural perfumes
How to make natural perfumes
"Making perfumes is easy", says Guy Robert to his colleagues at the prestigious British Society of Perfumers, link He details with humourism the different ways in which a perfume comes into being. A genesis of…

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,…

Subliminal dose
In a perfume, the ingredients that are not smelled are more important than the ones that are smelled.
I once had a customer who loved my perfumes but he could not stand any fragrance containing Rose. Even in those where it was present in…

Olfactory theories, Luca Turin speaks…
Two different olfactory theories. Do we smell the shapes or the vibrations of molecules?
Explained in a brilliant humoristic way by Luca Turin himself.

New essences from Australia
New essential oils are just arriving to me from Australia, Eco Sandalwood and Fire Tree.
Australian Sandalwood is precious to me as a substitute to Mysore Sandalwood. Not only a minor quantity is enough to have the top and heart note of…
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Luca Turin on Natural Perfumery
Luca Turin on Natural Perfumery
By courtesy of Luca Turin
NZZ Folio 4/06
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Natural Perfumery
There are now officially four kinds of perfumery: normal, niche, vintage and natural. Normal is what you find everywhere; niche is what…