Women’s Perfume – Perfection in a Bottle

Women’s perfume has been popular for centuries so it comes as no surprise when you walk through the isles of many department stores you see them lined with different varieties of perfume. The nose twitches when presented with the various aromas from countless bottles of perfume. Each perfume being specially crafted to bring about a specific sensation or specific experience – at least in the mind.
Ladies perfume does fit into various categories. These include citrus, amber, woody, flowery, powdery, cedar, leather and more. With these sort of descriptive names there is no doubt that there will be some seriously interesting aromas to be smelled by the perfume wearer and those around her.
Ladies perfume requires a skilled person to produce it – a perfumer who is familiar with many, many different scents and one who knows how to create a very fine balance with the right mix of each individual extract. Just as would a specialist wine taster know his or her craft very well indeed, the same can be said for the specialist perfumer.
You may have come across the term “notes” when used to describe the aroma of a womens perfume. There are three levels of notes – the top note, the mid or heart note and the base or bottom note. Maybe sounds a bit like music and indeed these notes are also crafted together to bring about a very finely tuned result. The notes are what makes a perfume a particular perfume – they provide for the specific aroma.
Further to the creation of the perfect scent, the women’s perfume will be packaged in such a way as to reflect its character. Not only the scent but also the name. The bottle and packaging will be styled in such a way as to reflect the underlying theme. Its not the case any more as it was at one time to disregard the bottle and packaging to the point that it was somewhat bland. Now the packaging and bottle design can make or break a perfume so its vitally important to get this right.
Furthermore todays perfume bottles and packaging are produced at least to some extent to reduce light and oxygen reducing the quality of the perfume. If too much of either is allowed to interfere with a perfume then it causes degradation in a fairly quick manner.
Due to the cost of the more pure perfumes on the market, which applies to men’s fragrances too, manufacturers these days offer lower concentrations of a particular perfume to make them more affordable to the customer. There are various perfumed products available such as body sprays, lotions, creams and soaps to name a few. These do indeed contain some of the scent of the more pure perfume but obviously at a lower concentration, thus being affordable to almost anyone who wishes to indulge but may not have the financial means.