Perfume is made from alcohol and oils. It
is the most expensive type of fragrance because of the amount of essential oils
in it. EDP or Eau de Parfum has about 15-22% essential oils. Eau de Toilette or
EDT has 8-15% essential oils. The weaker type of fragrance is called Eau de Cologne
which has only 4% oils. An example of one of the most popular colognes is
Abercrombie and Fitch, Fierce. The most subtle type of fragrance is called Eau Fraiche
which only contains 1-3% essential oils. It has a very light dilution of
fragrance.
There are about six categories of fragrance
–
- Oriental
- Floral
- Floriental
- Green
Marine
- Chypre
- Fruit.
These are samples of plants that are
typically used in making of perfumes –
bay leaf, cedar wood, eucalyptus,
jasmine, lavender, lily, magnolia, pine, vanilla, etc.
