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Perfume

Of or pertaining to products that emit an attractive fragrance when applied on the body.

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Perfume

Evaluation

Personal care products; Perfume

It means the selection of fragrances, for a specific purpose, from a number of available alternatives. In recent years a whole new profession has emerged in the perfume industry consisting of experts ...

Erotic

Personal care products; Perfume

Perfumes which, in addition to their general leasing and harmonious qualities, are also accented. With warm animal notes in combination with certain flower oils, are said to have an erotic effect. ...

Essences

Personal care products; Perfume

These are alcoholic or aqueous plant extracts. They are hardly ever used in the perfume industry today, but they are widely employed in the cosmetic and flavour industries.

Enfleurage

Personal care products; Perfume

It's a process for the extraction of valuable plant extracts. Plates of glass, covered on both sides with animal fat into which blossoms have been pressed, are placed on wooden frames. Spent blossoms ...

Encapsulation

Personal care products; Perfume

To encapsulate, in the perfume industry sense of the word, means to enclose perfume oils in tiny gelatin capsules. These capsules can be applied to the skin together with an alcoholic perfume. When ...

Eau de toilette (EDT)

Personal care products; Perfume

An alcohol/water based perfume solution containing 3 to 8 % perfume compound.

Eau de parfum (EDP)

Personal care products; Perfume

An alcoholic perfume solution containing 10 to 15% perfume compound.

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