Floral Perfumes For Women and Their On-going Popularity

Floral Perfumes For Women and Their On-going Popularity



The gorgeous fragrance of nature‘s
abundance of flowers are superbly captured in quite a lot of
floral perfumes these days. This is mainly due to the
imagination and creativity of the skilled perfume makers that
make them. Many of these artisans are absolute perfectionists,
who refuse to give up until they achieve their set goals of
creating fabulous scents. Some of the blends they come up with
smell identical to the scents of various fresh flowers we are
familiar with and other botanical odors like cut grass, herbs
and leaves. They are also able to create other odors that do not
smell like any recognizable or naturally occurring fragrance,
but that smell divine all the same.

Most floral scents are actually created from aroma chemical
molecules rather than natural essential oils. The fact that
these perfumes are mostly created from man-made ingredients does
not mean they are inferior or less beautiful because they are
not made up with essential oils. As a matter of fact, it is not
uncommon to find outstandingly floral perfumes that are made up
with 100% odor molecules created in a chemistry lab.

Ultimately, the creation of masterpiece perfumes is usually down
to the use of top quality perfume ingredients and the talents of
creative perfumers and dedicated alchemists who are forever
coming up with exceptional fragrance notes to titillate and
entice our senses.

Here are some extra interesting information about floral
perfumes:

Question 1 – What is the origin of floral perfumes?

Answer: Floral perfumes are not new to the perfume industry; in
fact they are perhaps the earliest perfume classification. In
the early days of perfume making different types of flower
blossoms were distilled or soaked in volatile solvents to
extract their fragrant essences. The oils and distillates
obtained during these processes were then mixed into different
of bases such as oils and alcohol to dilute them and make them
safe for application on the body.

The flowers most commonly used then were roses, jasmine,
tuberose, narcissus, orange blossom and geranium; all of which
are available in various varieties.

Each variety has different nuances and characters. In addition,
the countries they are from, the weather, the nutrient content
of the soil they were grown in and how they are harvested all
play a big role in the final quality of the essential oils
obtained from them. All these factors put together can affect
the quality of the essences obtained in the harvest of a
location from year to year. In one year it might produce the
very best quality and the following year one not fit for use.

Question 2: Why are floral perfumes so popular among women?

Answer: Floral scents and interest in flowers on the whole is
more commonly associated with women. So, it is not surprising
that the love of floral perfumes is fundamentally feminine.

Question 3: Can men use floral perfumes?

Answer: Going back to the history of perfumes and its early
days, floral perfumes were the main type of perfumes available
for both sexes and that was what they used. As a matter of fact
during the regency period, records show that men wore a lot more
perfume than women. There were several references made in books
about the fashionable men and dandies of the day dousing
themselves in rose and jasmine perfumes to cover up the odors of
unwashed bodies. There were also many anecdotes and jokes in the
society papers about men who wore so much strong scents that it
used to send the ladies into a swoon at social gatherings.

What’s more, by comparing the ways perfumes were made in its
early days to the modern perfume making process, it is very
clear that floral ingredients still play a very prominent role
and are still incorporated in both men and women’s perfumes.

It’s actually quite interesting to note that a woody, fruity,
spicy or fresh perfume can still contain a substantial amount of
floral notes.

So whether you are a woman or a man, a great way to have a say
in what fragrance suits you best is to make your own perfume.
The art of creating a perfume is all in the blending and in
knowing how much of what to add to a composition to create
perfumes that will appeal to a man, woman or both sexes. You can
experiment with different fragrance notes and decide which ones
to put together to make your ideal blend. The sky is the limit
once you know how to go about knocking together your own
perfumes blends. It’s as easy as ABC!