The person who knows about perfume is called a Nez. The French word Nez means nose but the proper term for a perfume expert is to be defined as ’The Perfumer’. Every factory or parfumerie has its own perfumer overseeing production of the various aromas produced. The job of the perfumer requires great skill as well as some knowledge of chemistry. The perfumer will have a very keen sense of smell and will be an expert in the process or composition involved in creating new smells.
Designing perfume
The perfume company will decide that they need a new brand of perfume to launch onto the market. This may happen as a result of a customer request or may be brought about to satisfy a particular market niche. The composition must begin with the perfumer who will begin by blending fragrances and perfumes until the formulation meets the criteria specified by the company or the customer. The criteria can be anything from a Christmas scent (usually pine blend) to an after bath fragrance (almond blend, perhaps) but the process could take a considerable time before the product goes into full production.
Basic Technique for Perfume making
As perfume oils can contain hundreds of ingredients this is a synopsis of the main constituents. An anti-oxidant is important as it preserves the product and ensures a very long shelf life (as is the norm with true perfumes). Color additives are important for marketing the perfume because it obviously has to look right as well as smell delicious. The primary scents have to be decided upon as for example the two (pine and almond) mentioned in the previous paragraph.
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Rose (floral) is a very common primary scent but other are ‘fruity’ and ‘woody’ by definition or perhaps the more obscure ‘citrus’ and ‘fresh’ fragrance. When a primary scent is newly developed and is deemed to be outside the norm it is referred to as an abstract scent.
Blenders are required to bulk up the primary product. They are often the major component of the primary fragrance but they are neutral and will never detract from the primary scent. Blenders are often referred to as bases.
Perfumer’s Art
Another main component is the glue in the perfume which keeps all the ingredients bound together, this glue is called the fixative. They can be natural products and may be scents in themselves. Common fixatives are amber and a number of different wood resins.
It is the perfumer’s job to mix and match these ingredients until the fragrance is the one desired or requested. A top perfumer can build a perfume from scratch but nowadays they use fragrance bases to speed up the work.
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