Showing posts with label woody floral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woody floral. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2015

What are Floral Perfumes?

Fragrances can be classified by certain olfactive families, or themes, or accords.

Floral:

the most popular in perfumery, includes both single floral scents and floral bouquets,. Floral scents can be either rich or light and airy in character. Single florals, also called soliflore, would be tuberose, hyacinth, lilac, honeysuckle, and gardenia, lily of the valley, orange blossom, jasmine, violet, carnation, rose and jasmine. Floral bouquets weave scents together to form a unified scent.


Monday, January 5, 2015

What are Woody Fragrances?

Fragrances can be classified by certain olfactive families, or themes, or accords.

Woody:

fragrances derive their scents from aromatic woods such as sandalwood, patchouli, aloes, cedar, agarwood (oud), rosewood, cypress, tobacco, tonka, pine and scents like oak moss which are reminiscent of the odor of the forest floor. Usually accompanied by other notes such as citrus, herbs, spices, incense, and balsamic notes like vanilla or benzoin. Animalic notes such as ambergris, leather, musk, castoreum and civet often give depth to woody fragrances and enhance their longevity.

The subdivisions of classifications in this family are:

  • Woody Amber
  • Woody Aquatic
  • Woody Aromatic
  • Woody Chypre
  • Woody Floral 
  • Woody Floral Musk
  • Woody Hesperidic Coniferous
  • Woody Oriental
  • Woody Spicy
  • Woody Spicy Leather




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