Floral
Oriental Perfume & Fine Fragrance
Perfume
Guide - Perfume
Categories - Floral
Floral
Traditional
Floral perfumes were one of the first perfume categories created
and they remain one of the most popular perfume categories
for women, with large numbers of floral perfumes created each
year by fragrance houses to compliment the demand for this
group. Floral fragrances tend to be created for women only
as they have a distinctive feminine quality.
Floral perfumes have a vast array of colours and flavours,
they can be full creations taking many aspects of this huge
range of scents, or simple odes to a particular flower, such
as Acqua Di Parma's Iris Nobile. Floral perfumes continue
to inspire, especially with the new headspace technology that
is now available to perfume houses. This headspace technology
offers perfumers the option to clone the essence of flowers
from which no oils can be extracted and has led to a surge
of new an interesting new scents, such as Marc Jacobs Daisy.
Due to the sheer volume of scents that can be captured the
floral perfume category is one of the most distinctive and
diverse.
Perfumers can let their creativity run wild, enriching florals
with green, aldehydic, fruity or spicy hints. With its natural
scent, the floral note is one of the most widely used in women's
perfumes. Recently
the trend has moved away from traditional floral scents with
green notes, white flowers, carnations, roses, jasmine and
aldehyde and perfumers have begun to add sweeter, fresher
fruit notes to floral fragrances, giving the traditional floral
perfume yet another dimenson. Since 1995 these perfumes have
grown in number, with the floral body easily identifiable,
and the fruity notes, such as apricot, raspberry, lychee and
apple are often layered over the top. These new fruity floral
perfumes include, Guerlain My Insolence, Donna Karen Red Delicious,
Hugo Boss Femme, Lacoste Touch of Pink perfume and Nina Ricci
Nina.
However, the more traditional Muget floral perfumes are beginning
to become popular again, people are delighting in the fresh
nature of these perfumes. These floral scents retain a rich
floral bouquet whose keynote is lily of the valley. This timeless
white flower, gives perfumes a fresh note of springtime and
are a welcome break from the fruitier options preferred by
many perfumers today. Muget Floral perfumes include Estee
Lauder Pleasures, Cacharel Anais Anais, Dior Diorissimo, Ralph
Lauren Glamourous and L Lamb by Gwen Stefani.
Floral
Fragrances for Women include:
Other
Floral Fragrances:
Perfume
This
is the extract or extrait of a fragrance and represents
the scent in its purest form. This often creates a smooth
and round texture, which is hard to achieve with the
dilution represented in the other concentrations of
fragrance.
EDP
Eau
de Parfum or EDP is one of the most popular forms of
fragrance. Eau de Parfum contains between seven to fourteen
per cent of fragrance oils and perfume elixirs and is
the second strongest, and longest lasting means of wearing
a fine fragrance.
EDT
Eau
de Toilette or EDT is fast becoming the most common
means of wearing a fragrance or perfume. EDT’s
are not as highly concentrated in oils and elixirs as
an EDP or Perfume would be and contain one to three
per cent of fragrance oils. This impacts the ability
of the fragrance to last and around eighty percent of
the oils in an EDT fragrance will evaporate within three
hours of application.
EDC
Eau
de Cologne’s or EDC’s were first popularised
by Napoleon. These fragrances are often constructed
in a different manner to the traditional French Model
and are formulated in one single burst. As a result
of this process, EDC’s or Eau de Colognes last
the least amount of time on the skin and can dissolve
within a couple of hours. EDC’s should be worn
as a invigorating spray. |
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