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Some 8,000 perfumes were profiled in the 2015 printed edition of Fragrances of the World, accompanied by brand name, date, fragrance family and gender.The online database, updated weekly, archives profiles of over 17,000 perfumes, listing brand name, corporate group, creative director, gender, perfumer, date, country of origin, bottle designer, fragrance family, an image, an olfactory pyramid ...
Guerlain ( French pronunciation: [ɡɛʁlɛ̃]) is a French perfume, cosmetics, and skincare house which is among the oldest in the world. Many traditional Guerlain fragrances are characterized by a common olfactory accord known as the " Guerlinade fr ". [ 1 ] The house was founded in Paris in 1828 by the UCI Pictures Pierre-François Pascal ...
Castoreum / kæsˈtɔːriəm / is a yellowish exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers and platypuses. Both animals use castoreum for various purposes; beavers use it in combination with urine to scent mark their territory, [ 1][ 2] while platypuses use it in reproductive communication. Both beaver sexes have a pair of castor sacs and a ...
This is a list of some of the most widely known commercially available perfumes from the 14th century onwards, sortable by year, name, company, perfumer, and the authority for its notability. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Civet is a soft, almost liquid material. It is pale yellow when fresh, darkening in the light and becoming salve -like in consistency. Its odor is strong, even putrid as a pure substance, but once diluted it is pleasantly and sweetly aromatic. It is prepared for use in perfumery by solvent extraction to yield either a tincture (10 or 20 percent ...
Perfumer. A mockup of a 'perfume organ' (lacks a weighing scale). The organ is traditionally where a perfumer works on the composition of various perfumes. However, samples are now weighed and blended by technicians in larger flavour and fragrance companies. A perfumist is an expert on creating perfume compositions, sometimes referred to ...
Website. creedfragrance .com. Creed Fragrances is an Anglo-French multi-national niche perfume house, based in Paris. The company was originally founded as a tailoring house in London, England in 1760 by James Henry Creed. [ 1] It has boutiques in Paris, London, New York City, Beverly Hills, Sydney, Dubai, Kuwait City, Vienna, Manila, Cebu City ...
Opium. (perfume) Opium is an Oriental-spicy [ 1] perfume created for fashion brand Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) by perfumer Jean Amic and Jean-Louis Sieuzac of Roure, first marketed in 1977. [ 2] Its top notes are a mixture of fruit and spices, with mandarin orange, [ 3] plum, clove, coriander and pepper, [ 2] as well as bay leaf. [ 4]