11 facts about fragrance

Beauty/News

Every woman has perfume. We use it every day, but you did not know about it very interesting.

Here is 11 facts about perfume.

1. The first European spirits were not intended for the body. They were for leather products: gloves, belts, boots, etc. With their help, people fought off an unpleasant smell freshly tanned skin.

2. Scents perfumes associated with loved ones, a person is able to remember for their entire life.

3. Your Nose Doesn’t Know: Apparently, your nose gets used to your signature fragrance, and you can only smell it when it’s first applied or when you consciously pay attention to it. Lesson: do not over-sprits for the sake of those around you.

4. Expensive taste: The most expensive perfume in the world is Clive Christian’s Imperial Majesty, priced at $215,000 for 16.9 ounces. It’s served in a Baccarat crystal bottle with an 18-carat gold collar and five-carat diamond.

5. Humble beginnings: Chanel No. 5 ($98)—one of the best-selling perfumes of all time and the only one Marilyn Monroe famously said she wears to bed—had a surprising start. Coco Chanel came from humble beginnings—her mother was a laundry woman—so the smell of soap and freshly scrubbed skin was something that stayed with her years after. Chanel No. 5 was the first perfume she selected from the ten samples perfumer Ernest Beaux’s presented, and the first perfume to be made with aldehydes, a synthesized component of an organic compound that just so happens to smell like—you guessed it—soap.

6.In the modern fragrance industry uses more than 6 thousand different ingredients. The cost of perfume is directly proportional to the number of ingredients applied in its production. For example, Chanel №5 mixed 80 different components - hence the high price.

7.One of the most expensive perfume ingredients - is the essence of iris flowers. A kilo of raw material for its production is worth about 40 thousand euros.

8.The most expensive perfume oil - pink. The best oil is considered to be made in Bulgaria. It is sold for more than 5 thousand dollars per kilogram, which is not surprising: to produce a kilogram of the need to recycle 5 tons of rose petals.

9. The perfumes are often used disgusting smelling substances aldehydes. In its pure form, they stink of rancid fat, in combination with other components - create stunning compositions. An excellent example of such a composition is the legendary perfume Chanel №5.

10. The development of the original design for the perfume bottles is expensive - up to 100 thousand dollars. Therefore, the designer bottles dispensed only luxury perfumes. The rest of the packaging - it’s a variety of options for the standard bottle, the shape of which was invented in the XIX century. To make such bottles just a little individuality; manufacturers change the glass color and thickness, as well as vary the form of labels and caps.

11. Dry skin holds scents much better than wet. Therefore, you should not use perfume immediately after a shower.