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Palette: The range of aromatic materials from which a perfumer selects to use in the formulation of a perfume.
Perfume (Extract): "per fumum" - comes from the Latin, meaning "through the smoke." In ancient times, fragrant resins were burned as incense offerings that were the origin. Today, we understand perfume to be a solution containing 15% to 30% perfume oils and 85% to 70% alcohol, respectively. Most highly concentrated form of fragrance, containing between 20 - 50% perfume compound, It’s the strongest and the longest lasting.
Perfumer:
1)one who mixes perfume
2) perfumer seller
3) perfumer creator.
Pheromone: Chemical substance secreted by an animal to produce a response by other members of the same species.
Pomades: Fats and flower oils saturated with flower oils such as produced during the effleurage process.
Potpourri: A fragrant mixture of dried herbs and flowers, usually scented with synthetic fragrance oils.
Powdery: It’s an effect produced when a heavier sweet or woody note is blended with a lighter note such as citrus, fruity or light green note. Such as is obtained when mixing vanilla with lemon in a sorbet (sherbet).
Pikaki: It’s a form of jasmine (jasminum sambac) grown in Hawaii and used for making leis. Also known as Arabian jasmine, and widely used to make jasmine tea.
Prices: Prices of perfumery materials vary greatly, often by a factor of 10 times according to source, quality, quantity purchased.
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