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An online resource to perfume and fragrances from around the world, past and present. Use our extensive descriptions and resources to find your perfect perfume.

The 5 Different Ways to Wear a Perfume
Perfumes and fragrances now are available in 5 different formulations, to suit your needs and the strength of wear that you want to create. Historically, pure perfumes, pomades, elixirs and oils were the only means available of wearing a fragrance, but as technology has increased edt’s, edp’s and scented body lotions have become available.

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. This makes pure perfumes the most expensive way to buy a scent. Pure perfumes also contain 20 to 40 per cent of fragrance oils and expensive elixirs, which are held in alcohol to enable them to bond to the skin. This is a much higher concentration of oils than in other types of fragrance. The longer lasting base notes often dominates the formulation of pure perfumes, with fifty per cent of the fragrance concentrated at that end. Perfume is generally dabbed onto the skin rather than sprayed on as the propellant added can often damage the oils and decrease their staying power.

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Eau de Parfum:
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. It is estimated that around 70 per cent of an Eau de Parfum can be lost after several hours and approximately 30 per cent will remain 24 hours later. Eau de Parfum’s continue to be popular as they are an economical and long-lasting means of wearing a fragrance due to their high quantity of oils.

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Eau de Toilette:
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. EDT’s are often expected to last throughout the day, but in reality they should be used in the traditional sense, as a toilette water, and splashed all over the body to refresh and revive the senses.

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Eau de Cologne:
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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Scented Body Creams:
Fragranced Body Creams or Scented Body Lotions are an increasingly popular means of wearing a fine fragrance or perfume. These fragranced body products contain around eight per cent of the aromatic oils present in a perfume, and perfumed body lotions are formulated with around three to five per cent. These perfumed body products have a thick cream or lotion base, which allows the scent to bond with the skin and linger in its more concentrated form. Perfumed Body Creams and Fragranced Body Lotions can often be smelt faintly on the body up to twenty-four hours later.

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