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Why Phthalates in Perfumes are Dangerous?

Phthalates in Perfumes are Dangerous? Due to laws that protect perfume manufacturers from sharing "trade secrets", most perfumes sold commercially are packed with harmful chemicals that aren’t listed individually on the ingredient label. Instead, these fatal chemicals are simply covered by the term "fragrance" – an umbrella word that could mean a variety of different ingredients and hide the actual one.
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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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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.
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.
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Rose Attar

Rose Attars are typically natural essential oils derived from the petals of diverse types of roses. Rose attars are made through the steam distillation process while rose absolutes are collected through the solvent extraction process. The absolutes are more commonly used in the perfumery industry and the techniques of production originated in Persia.
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Oakmoss Perfume

Oakmoss (or oak moss) is one of the most beloved substances to perfumers around the world. It’s a type of fungi lichen that usually grows on the branches and trunks of the oak trees. The essential oil derived from this moss primarily used in perfumery as a fixative or base note. Someone may feel its smell very strong and earthy, but to most perfume lovers oakmoss scent is unique with natural woody and leather-like undernote with no other similarities in the world. 
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Arabic Perfumes

Perfumery has been a cultural tradition in the Arab communities for thousands of years. Typically, Arabs are highly principled and demanding people, and using quality perfumes has been treated as a mark of luxurious status in Arabian societies since the ancient ages. Arabic perfumes always acquire a top position with their complex and pleasant smells.
What is Attar?

What is an Attar?

Attars are basically highly concentrated perfumes, free from alcohol and synthetic chemicals. Attars are respected as an identity of majesty, honor, and glory. Attars have an extremely long shelf-life and don’t need any preservatives.
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Oud Perfumes

Oud is derived from the wood of agar tree (Aquilaria malaccensis) that typically grows in Southeast Asian countries. When a specific mold infection occurs in the wood, the plant excretes a resinous substance that is dark and highly scented. This resin is often called "black gold" or "liquid gold". The term "Oud" refers to both the resinous dark wood and the liquid oil distilled from it.
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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.
Non-Toxic Perfumes

Non-Toxic Perfumes

A non-toxic perfume is simply a perfume that is free from any toxic ingredients such as synthetic alcohol, aroma chemicals that may harm you. Non-toxic perfumes are typically made from natural ingredients using only aromatic materials that are directly extracted from natural flora and fauna.
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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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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…
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How to build a folding perfumer’s organ

This organ has been designed for traveling and to allow me to keep on composing perfumes when I am away from my base, this has conditioned the choice of the materials used to build it. The organ should be as light as possible and occupy as little…
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Distill Yourself

  Even before I began distilling, I had already reflected on the inner aspect of the distillation process that produced my perfume ingredients. As a perfumer using my essences to cure myself and my family, I had searched for their meanings…
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Pyramids, lies and mythos of Modern Perfumery

From my house in Lefke. If you believe that olfactory pyramids published by the industry are meant to give you information about the ingredients or about the smell of a perfume, you are really naive. Pyramids are but a marketing tool used…
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The biggest myth of perfumery

From my house in lefke The biggest of all perfumery myths is that making perfumes is complicated, technical, and time-consuming. It is not true, making perfumes is easy, instinctive, and fast. I have never spent more than 2 hours on any of…
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Old and new myth of perfumery

From my house in Lefke Fixative ingredients are one of the strongest myths of perfumery. If what you intend by fixative is a single molecule that will smell on your skin for hours after all the rest of the perfume has disappeared, then fixatives…
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Composing a natural fragrance

Perfumes with a meaning: "Holy Water" Composing a natural fragrance is a totally different approach from "writing" a synthetic one. It is important to understand that a natural perfume is not constructed by the nose but by the brain, because…
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Thoughts from Timbuktu – fixatives

Our customs evolve as generations pass, but the words of our language endure, often taking on different meanings and becoming misleading. A century ago, perfumes were primarily used on handkerchiefs, scarves, and gloves rather than directly…
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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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Spirituality of the sense of smell

Love for perfumes and spirituality go together, at least in the tradition of Islam. Very much unlike the idea of Serge Lutens for whom perfume is an expression of decadence and sensuality, the prophetic traditions of the three monotheistic…
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Selling perfumes

Amman, 1990 We were looking at the yachts and sailing boats from the high, it was near Palermo in Sicily. My small daughter told me: "Papi, I want to buy a boat when I am grown up". "It is easy" I replied, "you just have to sell perfumes…
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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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Mechanism of olfactory memory

Psycho-Aromatherapy chart of Robert Tisserand A perfumer has people smell his perfumes. He never has to ask if they likes them: It is enough for him to observe and read the faces. Facial expressions are infinite and they speak like words: liking,…
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Mystic of Perfume Making

There are different ways to initiate the composing of a new fragrance, but the spirit of it should always be one; "Kodo" the Zen of perfume. In the Hebrew mystic, it is taught that all senses give pleasure to the body while the sense of smell…
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Perfumer’s perversion

I just received from South Africa a new essence that is not yet available on the international market of raw material for perfumers. The bottle had leaked a bit and the wrapping of the parcel was perfumed. The power of this essential oil…

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Natural perfumes

Why Choose Natural Perfumery? The definition of natural perfume is simple: it is a perfume made of plant or animal extracts without any other ingredient. How I become a natural perfumer I did not really choose to become a natural perfumer…