by Jeff Lakie

There have been fortunes made in the fragrance industry. Cologne, perfume and other products can make a person smell good, but that’s not all there is to fragrances. Take a look at some of the reasons people wear particular colognes and perfumes.

The name is sometimes the most important aspect of a particular fragrance. When a celebrity endorses or manufactures a line of perfumes, that’s sometimes enough to make the perfume a success. In many cases, those names behind the products or emblazoned on the bottles make the fragrance popular regardless of the smell.

Some colognes and perfumes are popular because they are part of a particular line, the product of a specific company, or even packaged in a certain way. This is much the same as celebrity endorsements.

The marketing aspect can’t be overlooked. As with any product, even colognes and perfumes without celebrity endorsements and those from companies that aren’t well known can be promoted to success. Advertising campaigns can mean the difference when a consumer is about to choose a cologne or perfume.

For some people, the smell is all that matters. No matter what celebrities are willing to say this is a great perfume, or what awesome marketing campaigns are driving consumers to a particular product, there are those who will overlook all those for the smell that attracts their attention.

Research over the past few decades shows that fragrance has some particular roles in our lives, from promoting romantic tendencies to prompting memories.

For some people, perfume and cologne is all about self-image. There’s nothing that makes a woman feel prettier, cleaner or sexier than an awesome fragrance. It’s really no different for men.

You can trace the origins of perfumes and colognes back to the days when bathing was an irregular event. Then, the purpose was mainly to cover body odor though the decisions of which perfumes to use were also carefully considered. During times of economic depression, women have still found fragrances. Vanilla or other spices, when there was little money for luxuries like perfume and cologne.

The next time you’re standing at the counter trying to choose a fragrance, take a minute to consider what’s going to drive your decision.

Jeff Lakie is the founder of www.womens-fragrance.info and www.discount-fragrances.info websites providing information on Cologne.

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by Criss White

The history of perfume oils dates back to ancient Egypt when these fine scented oils were presented to royalty as gifts. In modern times, however, when the word ‘perfume’ is said, most people think of department store fragrances, which consist mainly of the concentrated oil and alcohol solution. Nevertheless, as more and more people are finding out about them, perfume oils are experiencing great popularity. Here are some interesting facts about perfume oils:

1) Strength of smell - Perfume oils are highly concentrated and up to ten times more concentrated than department store perfumes. This quality allows oils to last longer than their eau de perfume counterparts.

2) Alcohol - Perfumes have alcohol in them, which creates different smell effects. Most body oils use carrier oils like jojoba or grapeseed oil in place of alcohol. In some fragrances, the smell can change as the alcohol evaporates different scent notes through time. With oils, the scent is more constant.

3) Price - A noticeable difference between perfumes and perfume oils is price. Perfumes have a very high markup and great profit margins, which is perhaps why many celebrities have embarked on the trend of creating their own perfumes and colognes. Perfume oils can be sold very cheaply, or even more expensively than the perfumes, depending on how they are positioned in the market.

4) Body chemistry - Just because a perfume or cologne smells good on you, doesn’t mean that the oil version will. Perfumes only have a small percentage of oil, so they are quite different than pure body oils. This interaction between the fragrance and your body may produce a different scent perception altogether.

5) Packaging - Clearly, department store perfumes are very nicely packaged and thus make great gifts for friends and family. Many perfume oils are sold in less attractive containers, which is part of the reason for their lower price.

6) Uses - Perfumes are only intended for use on the body, but perfume oils can be used to create a variety of scented products, like soap, candles, bath oils, air fresheners, and many other types of scented products. Be aware that there are different types of fragrance oils and that pure uncut oils are not safe for use on the skin.

In summary, whether you choose to use perfume oils or not will depend on the factors above. Try out a small sample first and who knows, you might just discover a delightful new product to add to your personal inventory.

Criss White is a professional web writer on baby and new mother topics for baby and pregnancy websites. See Body perfume oils( http://www.bestperfumeoils.com/ ) and Designer Perfume Oils ( www.mybabyshowerfavors.com/perfume ) for more perfume oil information and supplies. Note: If you find this article useful, you may reprint it on your website, e-zine, or in your newsletter as long as the credits and resource box remain in tact and the hyperlinks are active.

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by The Team

How to choose the right perfume is a short article to help you with the sometimes difficult task of picking that perfect scent.

Because we have customers email and call us here at PerfumStop frequently to ask this question, we thought it would make sense (no pun intended) to offer the following guide.

There are lots of things to consider when you are choosing a new perfume. Certain key ingredients are said to release certain feelings in people when they smell them.
Spicier fragrances like musk are said to arouse sexual feelings and vanilla is also believed to be an aphrodisiac by many people worldwide. Fruit and floral scents are seen as calming, fresh and sensual.

How to test a perfume.

It has also been advised that when you test a variety of scents, you should think how you would describe it to yourself, and remember that is the message you would give out to people; ’sweet’, ‘fresh’, ’sexy/sensual’ etc.

Perfume scents and skin types.

Never assume that because a perfume smells good on your friend it will smell exactly the same on you. Everybody’s skin reacts differently.
Always spray the perfume onto your skin rather than just sniffing the bottle, as again it changes when it meets your skin. Leave it to develop for about 10 minutes to get a proper idea of how it will smell.

How to apply perfume.

Try not to test more than 3-4 fragrances at once, because your sense of smell will become confused and they will blend together. Apply one to each wrist at the pulse and one in the crook of your elbow.
Fresh, floral and fruity fragrances are often more appropriate in the summer, whereas spicier and warmer scents are more suited to the colder months.
Perfume is best applied to pulse points: the inner wrists, behind the ears, and lower neck. If you spray a bit on your hair from arm’s length, the scent will float into the air everytime you move your head.

Perfume your linen.

Another way of making your mark with your perfume is to lightly spray it on your mattress as you make the bed - the fragrance will subtly remain on the sheets. Reapply your perfume throughout the day as the smell will fade after 4-6 hours.

To tell weather a perfume suits your not!!

This is very true, once you apply a perfume, after about half an hour… if you can’t smell you have it on, but other people can… this means it suits you!
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by Mike Taylor

The word perfume is from a Latin phrase meaning “through smoke” and was thought to have been invented by the ancient Egyptians who burned fragrant woods and plants for their pleasant odors. Over the years perfume has been used, refined and enhanced by every major civilization and today perfume as we know it is a very big business.

Today’s modern perfume has three main components:

The scent – Virtually anything natural or synthetic that has an odor can be used in the making of perfume. Typically scents are made from flowers, citrus, spices, woods and sometimes even leather.

The fixative – These ingredients act to stabilize the aromatic compound and help to make the scent last longer.

The solvent – This is usually alcohol and keeps bacteria from forming and helps maintain an even consistency so it can be easily applied.

The category a fragrance belongs to is defined by how much of the scent (or aromatic compound) is used in the product. This also plays a factor in determining the price as the higher the concentration of scent the more expensive the fragrance will be:

Lotions and aftershaves generally have a 1 to 2% scent base

Eau de Cologne products are generally 2 to 3% pure scent

Eau de Toilettes run between 5 to 20% scent

Eau de Parfums will have from 10 to 30% aromatic compound in them

Perfume Extract or Parfum has the greatest concentration of scent, between 20 and 40%

Women’s products are usually categorized as perfume, eau de parfum, toilet water, and cologne and for men’s products are sold as perfume, cologne, and aftershave.

Surprisingly fragrances and music share a common term, notes. Perfumes are often described by the different “notes” that make up the scent. These notes are designed to emerge at different times during the scent span of a fragrance just as an orchestra will have different instruments playing throughout a musical composition.

Top Notes are the strongest scents but do not last very long. This is the initial burst of smell you get when you first take a sniff of your favorite perfume or cologne. The top notes are often spice or citrus based.

Middle (or heart notes) makes up the main part of the scent that emerges after the top notes start to fade away and are usually softer and mellower than the initial scent. These scents are usually floral in nature.

Bass notes form the foundation of the scent and are usually deep and musky in nature and emerge to blend with the middle notes not to replace them.

Fragrances are very complex products that go through many stages of development before reaching the consumer. There are tens of thousands of different perfumes and colognes available today, each one having its own unique scent signature and what once was reserved for the wealthy and privileged is now available to everyone.

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by Andrew Gates

Shopping for perfumes or personal fragrances can be a daunting task, particularly if it’s for a friend or lover. Obviously online at Myshopping.com.au you cannot compare the actual scent of different fragrances. But, once you have a fairly good idea of what you are looking for, you can compare the different offerings from different brands and vendors very easily. So, how do you know what you are looking for? The following simple steps will narrow the search down somewhat.

Fragrance & PerfumeThe fragrance must suit the personality

The essential oils of a perfume react differently with each different person. Some perfumes are more suited to some personalities than others, and some perfumes are gregarious, others are more reserved. Your choice needs to suit the wearer’s attitude as well as demeanour, as well as reflect the status of your relationship with the wearer. For example, you wouldn’t buy the same fragrance for your mother as you would for a recently acquired girlfriend.

There are six different categories of scent that express different moods. If you know the favourite brand of the person you are buying for, a scent in the same family, or one in a complimentary family will be a reasonably safe purchase.

Floral

This is the largest and most popular category and is created mainly from flowers, including rose, carnation, orange blossom, gardenia and jasmine. These are often blended together to produce a distinctive floral bouquet. Some popular examples in this category include Clinique Aromatics Elixir, Ralph Lauren Romance and Yves St. Laurent Paris.

Citrus

Fragrances in this group come from citrus fruits such as lime, lemon, tangerine and mandarin. These fragrances project a sharp, tangy aura, which are naturally refreshing and uplifting. Citrus blends are among the oldest known scents. They were first worn by men and are now popular with women as well. Some popular examples include Calvin Klein CK One, Gucci Gucci and Jessica McClintock Jess.

Chypre (Cyprus)

This is a woody fragrance created by French perfumer Francois Coty, based on his impression of the island of Cyprus. The fragrance is dominated by pine aromas with hints of bergamot, oak moss, citrus and patchouli providing an earthy suite of aromas. Some popular examples include Dior Miss Dior, Hermes Caleche, and Cindy Adams Gossip.

Oriental

Oriental fragrances are a heady mix of spices, amber, balsams and resins suggesting warmth and exotic sensuality, and are popular for evening wear. Some examples include Calvin Klein Obsession, Yves St. Laurent Opium and Five Star Royal Secret.

Green

Green fragrances are fresh and alive aromas, with a hint of sharpness from young grassy scents blended with pine, juniper, leaves and herbs to create memorable perfumes. They reflect sporty personalities and most suited to daytime wear. Popular examples include Cartier So Pretty, Ralph Lauren Safari and Hanae Mori Haute Couture.

Fougere

This sixth category is a combination of fresh herbs and mossy ferns blended in to produce a sophisticated urban style, with earthy overtures. Some popular examples include Elizabeth Arden Blue Grass, Perry Ellis Reserve, and Davidoff Cool Water.

Seasons and Strengths

The choice of fragrance that one wears is often affected by season and event. Summer calls for cooler lighter fragrances, whereas winter might suggest more intimate and warmer aromas. Spring is the return of freshness, and autumn is a period of subtlety.

Daywear and a choice for everyday work calls for a different perfume to an evening out. An intimate dinner might suggest a different aroma to a family get-together. When you are buying perfume for someone, consider when he or she might wear your choice.

The other consideration is the relative strengths of the essential oils, and the amount they are diluted. There are four different categories according to the strength of the oils.

Eau de toilette has a typical concentration of 8 to 15 percent essential oils.

Eau de cologne (or Cologne) has a concentration of 4 to 8 percent of essential oils.

Eau fraiche is the most diluted of scent with just 1 to 3 percent concentration of essential oils.

The degree of concentration often suggests the size of the bottle and its price point. A larger portion will cost less per millilitre, but even small quantities of popular choices can cost a lot of money. This is where making comparisons with Myshopping.com.au can really pay off. The standard fragrance size bottles are usually in the 50ml, 75ml, 100ml or 125ml range. You can buy what is commonly known as a trial size, and this is a good choice if you are experimenting with new fragrances or just want a choice for travelling. These are usually 25ml to 40ml. Finally, a collector’s size that is commonly known as a miniature bottle might be 7ml or 10ml

Trials and Testing

It is common practice when buying a perfume is to visit the fragrance counter and spray different scents on different parts of your body so you can compare them. We suggest you avoid this because after two or three applications your olfactory responses (that’s your smell and taste senses) can easily be confused and your brain will be remembering and blending previous sniffs rather than sampling new ones. Secondly, how are you going to remember which you sprayed where. If you are going live shopping, we suggest you do something more like this.

Use fragrance blotters to gather your samples of different scents. These are small porous cards and are usually available at the perfume counter. Once you’ve sprayed the card you can write the name of the fragrance on the reverse side, that way you can identify the fragrance when you need to, and you can more readily compare the different aromas.

All fragrances take a few minutes to develop once they’ve been exposed to the atmosphere. Allow a few little time after it’s been applied before sniffing the fragrance. To overcome nose fatigue (confusion of the olfactory), leave the smelling alone for a while and take in some fresh air, or smell something that carries your own body odour (armpit of your shirt sleeve for example). Sometimes eating a mint can refresh your olfactory senses.

Try to narrow your selection to two or three fragrances and then spray some on your skin, making a point to remember what you sprayed where. Now you need to go and do something else. You need to remove yourself from the perfumery (too many other smells in the air) and take your mind off the fragrance shopping altogether.

Let ten or fifteen minutes go by and then smell those parts of your skin that you sprayed. Let your gut reaction tell you which is the most effective, relative to the reason you are buying the fragrance. Then go to Myshopping.com.au and find that fragrance and compare prices and vendors.

Andrew Gates is a writer for MyShopping.com’ target=’_blank’>Australian comparison shopping site MyShopping.com.au. MyShopping.com.au helps you compare perfume and buy online from top-rated online stores. You can also read perfume reviews and specifications.

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by Terrie Tulane

Are celebrity endorsed perfume brands better than natural and synthetic perfumes? Walking into the local department store will have you literally bombarded with individuals wishing to test a fragrance on your wrist.

Many of them have no real suggestion what is in them but they are sure to tell you just who is endorsing them. As a consumer, you should know a little more about the cosmetics you are applying to your body before you put them on. And, you should notice the quality of the product far more so than the name on the label.

Celebrity Perfume: Worth It?

Celebrity perfume is one of the highest selling sorts of perfume. From Celine Dions to Jennifer Lopezs, each celebrity these days is putting their name on a bottle of the stuff. But, dont think that they really have much to do with truly inventing the fragrance themselves.

In the most ideal case scenario, they may smell a multitude of options and then choose the one that fits their tastes the best (and that doesnt mean they will wear it all the time either) In fact, Glow, the fragrance that JLo herself has chosen along with different other in the family bring in about $100 million a year, which gives her a cut anywhere between five and ten percent of it.

Organics Instead?

While it is fashionable to wear celebrity perfume, it isnt necessarily the best way to get the smell that you will love. Instead, consider the fragrances of natural products such as lavender and vanilla. The nature-based products are more of a nature-based smell, one which is lighter and often more powerful that what you would get through a bottle of perfume.

It is also safer to wear if you have reactions to this type of cosmetic. Yet, they definitely are not going to be stylish without a name brand on them.

What are you to do to decide on the perfume that is just the right selection for you? It is wise to take just a few steps like these.

Get Sampled. Get a few samples from either the perfume counter or through requesting them online. Take your time smelling them and leave them near you for multiple minutes to make sure you can handle it. If you are able to, make sure to do this with several perfumes so that you can really tell the difference.

Find Out Whats Inside. It is also central for you to know what is in the product. If you are like many, you will want to stick with a more nature-based product simply because it is the most natural.

Price And Love. It is fundamental for you to really love the perfume that you decide on. Youll definitely get sticker shock from the celebrity perfumes out there. But, if it is just the one for you, then by all means buy it up. But, dont go for the celebrity versions if they are in fact terrible smelling to you. After all, you are the one that will need to smell it day and night.

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by Terrie Tulane

Economical internet perfume is prevalent and easy to find; many perfume sites constantly offer perfume at costs considerably and noticeably lower than those offered at perfume outlets, and even have many mark down or sale prices for a variety of types and brands.

Buying Affordable online perfume gives you the benefit of not only being able to obtain a wider variety of perfumes than you can get in your local department stores, but you can also purchase them for far less. Buying perfume online makes it possible for you to save as much as 73% on your preferred perfumes and colognes.

Comparison shopping for the best prices on Economical online perfume is another great advantage you get when shopping for Low-priced perfumes. Although there are many sources for internet perfume, some sites offer greater values than others. By taking your time to do some research and compare prices, you can ensure that youre getting the best possible prices on your perfume-which means you can purchase bigger quantities or more brands.

And you can find every brand of perfume imaginable internet, and from the personal space of your on home or office. You can shop for Inexpensive online perfume at your convenience and have it delivered right to your door. This saves you a lot of time and money-which means you can acquire more perfume and even experiment with brands you might not be able to afford otherwise.

While you really cannot have enough perfume! And one of the best aspects of buying Low cost online perfume is that no one has to know you didnt pay full price for those lovely scents. Whether youre a Marc Jacobs fan, a Calvin Klein devotee, or a Ralph Lauren fanatic, buying Affordable internet perfume means you can have the scents of your dreams at dream prices.

The only note of warning is make sure that any Internet source that youre thinking of buying Cheap internet perfume from is reputable and selling the real deal. Beware of scams that are selling knock-off designer perfumes. And be sure to take as much care in choosing your Cheap internet perfume source as you do in choosing your special fragrances or perfumes.

The internet is a great place to find Affordable perfumes internet.

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