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What makes perfume? |
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Perfume is made up of vegetable oils,
the odours of certain animals and chemical additives. Perfume-making, like
cookery, is done from a recipe, a formula. The perfumer takes his list of
ingredients and boends them together in a special way. One of the expensive
perfumes worn by women on their throats and wrists (the heat from the
throbbing at these pulse points brings out the smell) may contain up to two
hundred ingredients. The first smell that reaches you when you open the
bottle and dab on the scent is the vegetable oil, a bl
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end of the oils of flowers and herbs varying from lavender, jasmine and
pose, to clove and rosemary and even carrot and onion oils. They extracted
by squeezing, or by the use of solvents. The second category consists of
animal odours which give the sent persistence. These include ambergris,
which is phlegm coughed up by the sperm whale, a gland secretion of the
civet cat, musk from the musk deer and castoreum resin from the beaver. The
third set of ingredients, the chemical ones, are used to set off and fill
out the flower and animal products. They are much cheaper. The blending of
these ingredients calls for great skill, and a perfumer takes many years to
learn his art. Not all perfumes are sold on bottles or even in cosmetic
products. One of the perfume’s main tasks is to disguise the bad smells in
products such as detergents and plastics, and to provide the smells which
people have come to associate with certain products. Plastic car seats are
given the smell of leather. Restaurants cam buy a bottle of bacon and
hamburger essence for an appetizing aroma. |
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