PERFUME BODY OILS

Perfum -”Per Fumum” Latin meaning “through the smoke”. In ancient times, fragrant resins were burned as incense offerings. That was the origin. Today, we understand perfume to be a solution containing 30 % to 15% perfume oil and 70% to 85% alcohol, respectively. What happened to perfumes between the origin and today? What is the secret? OIL. The answer is oil-based perfumes. If you’ll think back through history, some of the precious gifts of Kings, Queen and other nobility were perfume oils. Even Jesus was brought oils of frankincense and myrrh. Understand that oil penetrates any porous material (e.g. paper, wood, hair, skin, etc.); therefore, oil-based perfumes will penetrate the skin, causing the fragrance to stay. Alcohol is a drying agent. Alcohol dries (evaporates) from the most porous material within a short period of time.

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All commercially available “perfumes” are actually perfume oils with fillers. The fillers are mostly alcohol; sometimes even water. The alcohol filler has two main purposes:

First and foremost, it causes the perfume oils to evaporate much faster than they would alone, up to 10 to 15 times more quickly! This gives the impression that the perfume is stronger than it actually is. Have you ever put on a fragrance, and the aroma seems overwhelming at first? This is why. It is also the reason the scent is almost all gone within a few hours. The perfume oils have evaporated along with the alcohol!

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The second reason for adding those fillers is just ‘good’ marketing. A bigger bottle of fragrance plus fillers seems like a much better buy than a smaller one of pure oil. This illusion is further reinforced by the strong, short lasting aroma.

The difference is that the pleasant, sensuous scent of oil-based perfumes will LINGER LONGER.

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You will only need a drop for all day fragrance.