Note (perfumery)

Fragrance notes are groups of fragrances, for certain characteristics are typical. Thus perfumes can, for example, generally in two groups, in women's notes and in men's grades, which starts to dissolve the boundary between masculine and feminine fragrances in recent years and are increasingly finding their androgynous scents their place in the perfumeries. There have been and always endeavors to classify the variety of scents. There are historical fragrances that have shaped its own scent, such as " Chypre " or " Fougère "; but there are also often become fragrance creations, the basis for a new scent, such as " Thé vert ".

Below, the most famous scents are described, without following a specific ordering principle.

Ladies notes

• Floral Floral notes are present in virtually all perfumes. The most common floral notes are jasmine and rose. Fragrance creations in which is dominated by a floral note are also called " Soliflore " (for example, lily of the valley = " Diorissimo " by Dior ). The mixture of different floral notes is called a "bouquet " (for example " Quelques fleurs " by Houbigant ).
• Floral - fruity complement the fruity notes the flowery, but no case should they drown ( for example, " Amazone " by Hermès ).
• Fruity fruit flavors, such as peach, raspberry, plum found in perfumery as nuances of use. Furthermore, there are citrus notes, the so-called Hesperides. There are some women who do not like " edible " fruit notes, as they do not want "like a fruit salad " smell, but also the very fruity, sometimes referred to as the " gourmand " fragrances, perfumes nowadays increasingly popular and are in no way more frowned upon.
• Erogenous erogenous fragrance notes are achieved with warm, animal notes, such as musk, civet, ambergris and castoreum (for example, "Poison" by Dior or "Spellbound " by Lauder ).
• Chypre collective term for perfumes, on the one hand in the top note characterized by citrus freshness and the other in the base notes of oak moss and patchouli. Many perfumes of the chypre type are warm, sensual fragrances ( for example, " Femme" by Rochas and "Miss Dior " by Dior ).
• Oriental Wakes associations with the balsamic scents and spices of the Orient. So-called winter and evening perfume. Typical fragrances are amber and vanilla. A famous first fragrance of this type is " Shalimar " by Guerlain.
• Powdery scent impression, which arises when cooperating long-lasting, mossy, woody, sweet and crystalline elements. It arises in many perfumes, when the fresh and floral volatile components.
• Sweet Sweet acting scent blocks are included in many perfumes type chypre and oriental, but also floral and fruity scents can sometimes seem very sweet. The best known sweet -smelling natural product is the extract of the vanilla bean.
• Hot Characteristic are the animalistic scents in the perfume of the type chypre and oriental.
• Spicy scents are strong fashion, but are indispensable as cinnamon and clove in oriental perfumes.