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The Perfume of Sanctity

The Perfume of Sanctity

The perfume of Sanctity: scents are detectable, yet intangible and most frequently unseen, and they possess the ability to represent and even facilitate communication with ethereal entities, all while being fleeting.
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…
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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…
Smell and Sleep: How Scents Impact Sleep

Smell and Sleep: How Scents Impact Sleep

Sleep is essential for every human life. If you want to feel amazingly refreshed and energized the following day, you just need a good night’s rest with seamless, comforting sleep. Your body and mind get a chance to clean up your entire…
Pet-Safe Perfumes and Essential oils

Pet-Safe Perfumes and Essential oils

Fragrances have been an integral part of human civilizations for centuries. Maybe you’re a fan of fragrances, especially natural perfumes and essential oils, due to their remarkable therapeutic and grooming benefits. With increasing awareness…
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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,…
Kodo: the Way of Scent - Connection between fragrances and sacred rituals

Kodo: the Way of Scent

Collectively, "Kodo" embodies the concept of the "Way of Fragrance" or the "Path of Scent." This term eloquently encapsulates the Japanese tradition that orbits around the mindful appreciation, comprehension, and ceremonial utilization of incense and fragrances, serving as the cornerstone of the Kodo discipline.
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Why Perfume Smells Different on Everyone: Exploring Body Chemistry

The application of a fragrance has varying results according to an individual's body temperature, skin type, sweat production level, hormone levels, and other factors. Thus, what may be pleasant and long-lasting for one person could end up being too strong, unpleasant, or not enduring enough for another.
Perfume and Happiness

Perfume and Happiness

The right perfume can have a huge impact on a person’s mental well-being beyond just simply smelling attractive. There is a close link between perfume and happiness as the sense of smell has a direct impact on parts of the brain that control…
Essential Oils and Emotional Health -

Essential Oils and Emotional Health

There is a subtle but strong connection between essential oils and emotional health. This is the reason why essential oils have historically been used to promote mood and emotional well-being for thousands of years - yay, you probably have…
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…
Aromatherapy and Homeopathy

Can Homeopathy and Aromatherapy Be Used Together?

The basic principle in homeopathy is that “like cures like”, which is a concept that the ingredients that cause similar symptoms in healthy people can cure the symptoms in diseased people. This is the reason why, homeopathic practitioners use an ingredient, in tiny doses, which usually causes very similar symptoms in healthy people.
autumn perfumes

Autumn Fragrances

Scents that fit cooler climates of fall and evoke feelings of warmth and help capture the diverse essence of nature are often recommended as autumn fragrances The choices of fall scents are just limitless. They are usually richer and stronger than their summer counterparts. However, most choices include the perfumes of the Woody, Leathery, and Gourmand families.
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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…
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Leathery Perfumes

In perfumery, there is no leather essential oil or a natural essence of leather. Perfumers compose a leather accord using various materials such as castoreum, birch tar, juniper, oud, labdanum, styrax, tobacco, benzoin, or, unfortunately, other man-made synthetic molecules like aldehydes to impart a leather-like scent to perfumes.
Smell and Memory

Smell and Memory

The sense of smell is a crucial tool to predict dangers and survive in stressful situations for humans as well as other animals. With every breath, our nose is constantly inspecting the air around us and sending signals directly to the brain and nervous system whether we need to be more alert or not. The olfactory system is located deepest in the brain and the link between smell and memory is both impressive as well as under-appreciated.
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How Do We Smell?

The sense of smell plays an important role in many biological processes such as it can help you to know what and where things are, including your favorite dishes or the offensive ones. It can warn you about burning things or rotten foods and can help turn your attention to taking necessary precautions. But, how do we smell? In fact, humans have wondered to know the facts about smell for centuries. In this article, we’ll explore how we smell scents, odors, perfumes
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…
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.
Olfactory theories

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.
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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…