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The Secret Behind Making Perfume

by Roberto_Sedycias

Perfumery, that is the art of making perfume, is quite an ancient
art that was first started in Mesopotamia as well as in Egypt,
sometime during the 2nd millennium, BC.

During those days, perfumes were mostly made using spices such
as coriander, almond, bergamot, etc and various kinds of herbs
too. Surprisingly, they did not use flowers to make perfumes
during the early days of perfume making. The use of flowers for
perfume making was discovered by a Persian chemist and doctor,
who first experimented with roses, to manufacture perfume. Rose
water was an instant hit among the perfume users, owing to its
more delicate nature, and since then there has been no looking
back for perfumes using flowers.

However, nowadays with the commercialization of perfume making,
and with the development in the technology, the production
techniques have undergone a massive change. Perfume making has
now become a job that requires great expertise and knowledge.
Though most commercial perfume makers do not like to reveal the
secret behind their perfumes, we know for sure that perfume comes
from various sources, including plants (including flowers,
fruits, leaves, seeds, resins, etc) , animals (such as musk,
honey comb, civet, etc), and various other natural sources. These
days the benefits of using genetically modified plants for
perfume making is also being realized by manufacturers.

These days it is not very uncommon to find perfume makers using
synthetic sources to make perfumes. Though there are very few
manufactures who use synthetic chemicals to produce perfumes,
they are nevertheless gaining popularity among the perfume
lovers.

Though there are various methods of making perfumes, and each
perfume producing unit adopts a different way suitable to their
choice and style, some of the basic techniques still remain the
same.

The first step comprises of understanding the organization of
typical various ingredients present in the perfume oil. These
ingredients are primarily divided into four categories on the
basis of the specific roles they play. These include the primary
scents, the modifiers, the blenders and the fixatives. Different
primary scents as well as supporting ingredients may be found in
the base, middle and top notes of fragrance.

In the next step, the fragrance oils then need to be blended
with water and ethyl alcohol that have been aged in specific
tanks for at least fourteen days, and well filtered off from all
unnecessary sediments. These days most perfume manufacturing
units, instead of building their perfumes from the `ground-ups`,
prefer the use of bases for the same purpose, owing to the
various benefits it provides.

However, once a perfume has been manufactured, it is difficult
to understand its composition. This is obviously due to the
presence of various kinds of oils that makes the structure of the
perfume all the more complicated to break up and understand.
However, an expert may use reverse engineering techniques to
understand the nature of the perfumes. Reverse engineering is
particularly helpful for understanding a perfume that is not too
complex in nature. Nevertheless much also depends on the GC/MS
equipments being used for the purpose. Customers as well as
competitors often use this tool to understand the formula used in
manufacturing a perfume.

Perfume making industry is a big one, employing a number of
experts to experiment and devise new concepts for perfume making.
One of the most amazing features of this industry is the
maintenance of secrecy, and the hard work that is put into the
making of each and every perfume, so that each bottle contains a
unique combination in itself. Thus next time you spray perfume
all over yourself, just recollect the hard work gone into it so
that you keep smelling sweet the whole day long and say a silent
thanks to the creator!!

This article can also be accessed in portuguese language from the
Article section of page <a
href="http://www.polomercantil.com.br/perfume-fragrancia.php">www.polomercantil.com.br/perfume-fragrancia.php</a>
Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for <a
href="http://www.polomercantil.com.br">www.PoloMercantil.com.br</a>

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