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According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia Source Wikipedia Perfume: Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body a pleasant smell.
There are a few types of perfumes classified by concentration and volume of aromatic compounds: Perfume Extract, Eau de Perfume, Eau de Toilette, and Eau de Cologne.
An other traditional classification which emerged around 1900 features the following categories of perfume organized by type of scent:
Single Floral - Fragrances that are dominated by a scent from one particular flower such rose, lilas, etc.
Floral Bouquet - Fragrances containing the combination of several flowers in a scent.
Ambery: Fragrance class featuring the scents of vanilla and animal scents together with flowers and woods.
Woody - Fragrances that are dominated by woody scents, typically of sandalwood and cedar.
Leather - Family of fragrances featuring the scents of honey, tobacco, and wood bringing the scent that alludes to leather.
Chypre (Cyprus in French) - Fragrances built on scent of bergamot, oakmoss, patchouli, and labdanum. <<BR>Fougère (Fern in French) - Fragrances based on lavender, coumarin and oakmoss scents. Many men's fragrances belong to this family of fragrances, which is characterized by its sharp herbaceous and woody scent.
Since 1945, due to great advances in the technology of perfume creation, compound design and synthesis, as well as the natural development of styles and tastes the new categories have emerged to describe modern scents:
Bright Floral - Combination of traditional Single Floral & Floral Bouquet categories.
Green - Lighter and more modern interpretation of the Chypre type.
Oceanic-Ozone - Newest category in perfume history, appearing in 1991 with Christian Dior's fragrances featuring a very clean and modern smell.
Citrus or Fruity - Creation of primarily citrus fragrances and colognes with fresh citrus and fruit scents.
Gourmand - Scents with edible or dessert-like qualities, containing notes like vanilla and tonka bean, as well as synthetic components designed to resemble food flavors.
The use of perfumes, colognes, and products which contain fragrance have increased tremendously over the past few decades. Historically, fragrance has been for luxury and special occasion use. Since the 1970s fragrance has become a part of daily life.
