PERFUME TERMINOLOGIES AND WHAT THEY MEAN

Perfumes and colognes are scents that men and women wear to enhance their beauty or even attract a potential mate. They can lift a mood, evoke fond memories, or just simply help you smell really good. You know that there are some people that they just always smell really good, like the smell become a second skin and a signature.

In fact, wearable scents have become a multi-billion-dollar-per-year business. However, how will you know you are choosing the right perfume or an authentic one? Not to worry, these are some of the questions this post will answer and provide you with some perfume terminologies.

Absolutes

Pure, natural extracts and oils from flowers and other vegetable materials. Very expensive for a small amount. Example: pure rose oil.

Eau de CologneEau de Cologne is three to five percent oil in a mixture of alcohol and water. It tends to be lighter and refreshing, typically with a citrus oil component.

Eau de ToiletteIt contains about the same amount of perfume oil or a little more with and can be between four and eight percent than Eau de Cologne, It is mixed with alcohol instead of water.

Eau de ParfumThis type has a higher percentage of perfume oil which can roughly be between 15 to 18 percentages. Eau de Perfum is mixed with alcohol and that makes more expensive than the other two.

Perfume on the other hand is what most of us call it, it is 15 to 30 percent perfume oil mixed with alcohol. Because it contains such a high percentage of perfume oil, it is far more expensive than Eau de Cologne, Eau de Toilette, or Eau de Parfum.

You’ll also hear other terminology from your helpful scent-spritzer to describe scent families. For a woman, these will be citrus, fresh, floral, oriental, sweet, spice, or wood. Fragrances for men include those and also other more masculine scents like leather, tobacco, musk, and mosses

In my next post, I will be talking about the tips you need in picking the right perfume.