subject: Of Fragrance And Perfumes: Changing Moods [print this page] No one can resist the enticing note of that sweet and musky smelling odor emanating from a cabinet. It was that eau de toilette whom an average Joe worn for his dating pleasure. It is his tool to completely attracting his love interest, the person in front of him.
Colorful and novelty bottle designs adorn most peoples grooming kit and wardrobe. Perfumes come from different brands, origins, compositions and purposes. They mask stinky odors coming from kitchen burnt cooking. They afford protection against bad smell. They adorn car interior with that lavender smelling potpourri car freshener.
Fragrance can either give positive or negative feelings to the one who smells it. It can affect and change ones mood. It can shift in just a speed of light. When a certain smell smites a persons nose, it detects right away if one likes or hates it, causing one to either get closer or farther to that person wearing the fragrance or perfume.
Most certainly, everyone wants to smell the fragrance that inspires and shifts bad mood or temperament into a good one. Imagine standing in a dark place with lots of rubbish around, one can barely breathe because of the smell that the air spreads. However, in a place where the odor smells fresh, one is inspired to work. Not a single person, who thinks and acts physiologically correct, favor bad smell from the fragrant and good one.
Fragrance and perfumes are marketed with different types and concentrations.
Types
Perfumes These are made with 15 to 30% concentration of perfume base essential oils and extracts.
Eau de toilette contains 4, 5 to 15% base content which maybe diluted with alcohol, water and oil.
Eau de cologne contains 2, 3 to 6% perfume and is considered to contain weak fragrance note. An alcohol based perfume commonly used as after shaved or after bath perfume.
Health benefits
Perfumes also have health benefits such as using herbal aromatherapy potpourri to infuse selected aromatic oils. Using essential oils, it utilizes gas diffusion, topical application and inhalation to apply medication. In inhalation, gas infusion is done by pouring oil in a diffuser, which evaporates essential oils and turns them into a smoke.
One can avail or buy herbal incense online or visit herbal stores where many aromatic herbs are offered. Herbal incense found online, are great resource for selecting rare and upcoming perfumes. In soap, hygiene and detergent industry, perfumes are found, almost, in every product. Bleaches, fabric conditioners and shampoos all contain fragrance which can be natural or synthetic.
Fragrant origins came from floral essential oils namely rose, chamomile, lavender, violets, jasmines and plumeria. Resins coming from pine tree, myrrh and Boswellia sacra tree. Herbal sources include Ylang-Ylang, lavender, rosemary, lemon grass which forms some of herbal potpourri bulks perfumes. Moreover, animal sources supply some of the best perfumes. Ambergris, which is a whale vomit, turns into a part alcohol smelling fragrance. It is used in perfumery as fixative to encourage slow evaporation of alcohol based perfumes.
