Sunday, November 3, 2013
Perfume - The Ultimate Women's fragrance
The
moment we hear the word fragrance or perfume, our mind takes us into a
different world all together of pleasantness. Our imagination takes us to a
level of peace and bliss. We generally associate perfumes with women. The
lingering effect of the fragrance takes many of us down the memory lane.
Although men also have their own range of perfumes in the market these days but
the majority of them is for the female clique. Next time when you hear the word
perfume, your imagination will have something related to women’s fragrance in
particular as it is more feminine.
The
history of perfumes is as old as human existence. Perfume is derived from the
latin word "per fumus", which means through smoke. If we refer to the
history of perfumes we get to know that the art of making perfumes began in
ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and was further refined by the Romans, the
Persians and the Arabs. While perfume and perfumery also existed in East Asia,
much of its fragrances were incense based.
The
world's first testimony of a chemist is a person named Tapputi, a perfume maker
who was mentioned in a Cuneiform tablet from the 2nd millennium BC in
Mesopotamia. She distilled different types of oil, flowers and calamus with
other aromatics ingredients then filter them back into distill several times
before getting the pure perfumes. Perfume types reflect the concentration of
aromatic compounds in a solvent, which in subtle fragrance is typically ethanol
or sometimes a mix of water and ethanol. So even in our history it was more of
a women’s fragrance that was associated with perfumes.
Perfume
as such is not gender biased but still it is more feminine when we hear it.
These days we see it as a fashion statement. The perfume brand which you wear
speaks a lot about your overall personality. Many times a typical women’s
fragrance helps you to identify her without even having to look at the person.
As we are in the technological era the fragrance as such has undergone lot of
changes ever since its evolution. Wearing branded perfumes makes the persona of
an individual appear more rich, sophisticated and glamorous. The association of
beauty and glamour of a celebrity is often the selling point of a women’s
fragrance in the fashion industry.
Perfumes
can be categorized in different fragrance segments like floral, oriental,
citrus, chypre, green, Fougère, fresh etc. Women’s pay lot attention when it
comes to choosing the right perfume. The fragrance gives them the choice to be
someone very special. People apply perfumes behind the ears, insides of wrist,
elbows, nape of the neck so that fragrance continues to spread. Often
fragrances are termed as Eau de Parfum (EdP) which is concentrated than Eau de
Toilette (EdT) and in turn Eau de Cologne (EdC). Most of the perfume varieties
are sold as women fragrance except the Edc.
Women
let your fragrance define you next time you step out of your home.
by |Jordan
Sawaged
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