While not all women are into the same perfume notes, the one thing all of them can agree on is that they love to wear perfumes. Whether clean and gentle or stronger and more sensual, perfumes are women’s essential accessory. They have the power to evoke a plethora of feelings like love, sensuality, happiness, awe, peace and confidence.
Given the fact that there is an extensive range of perfumes from which you can choose, you have all the freedom in the world to find a perfume with the right ingredient combo. Selecting a perfume with the main ingredient being of your choice will certainly improve your confidence. As we all know, fragrance designers take inspiration from nature and quite often use natural ingredients in their scents to improve the scent’s quality and longevity. If longevity and pleasantness are what you look for in a perfume, then you should consider your perfume to have some of the most popular scent ingredients.
Jasmine
Jasmine is a sweet-smelling white flower that is one of the most common ingredients in women’s perfumes. Whether used as a top, middle or base note, jasmine is an essential part of most fragrances, especially if knowing that there are about 200 variants of jasmine flower. However, out of all, two of them are considered among the most commonly used ones in the perfume-making industry:
- Sambac Jasmine – Also known as Arabian or Tuscan jasmine, this is one of the most prominent types of jasmine that is used in most popular fragrances.
- Jasminum Grandiflorum – This is another commonly used jasmine variety in perfumes, mainly cultivated in the Grasse region in France where the famous brand Chanel grows its own jasmine variety.
Generally speaking, this perfume ingredient is considered one of the most expensive and luxurious ones in the fragrance industry because, for only 1ml of jasmine scent, perfumers will need to use an extract from 8000 flowers. Additionally, jasmine is an extremely delicate flower, so in order to maintain their integrity, they need to be hand-picked which, on the other hand, requires serious amount of labour.
Aside from the large selection of jasmine varieties, you should know that jasmine plants smell different depending on where they’re planted and grown. That being said, the notes range from sweet, musky and green, so perfumers are looking for the right one to create the most unique fragrance combos.
Rose
Rose certainly is one of the most popular and romantic flowers of all in the whole world. Aside from its unique appearance and colour, it’s its intoxicating smell that makes it even more appealing, so it’s free to say that the rose is the queen of all flowers.
This ingredient is an impactful floral note in the perfume industry, especially because of its many varieties and smells. However, just like jasmine, aside from the large selection of varieties, only several types of rose are used for the creation of heavenly-smelling rose perfumes. So, when in the search for a heavenly-smelling rose perfume Australia perfumers say you should pick one with the following ingredients:
- Rosa Centifolia which in France is known as cabbage rose.
- Rosa Damascena which is common in Bulgaria and Turkey.
Regardless of the type of rose variety used in perfume, it has been proven that rose has stood the test of time because of its ability to blend seamlessly with most woody, floral and citrus scents.
One of the most commonly used rose varieties for making a rose perfume Australia-wide is the Rose de Mai distillation of the Centifolia rose which is grown in the famous Grasse area in France. Given the fact that the fields for the production of this rose are limited, this explains its high price tag. The smell of this scent is warm, rich and voluptuous with hints of honey which makes it sweeter. This scent is mainly used in most luxury and pricey modern fragrances like Jean Patoy Joy and Chanel N°5.
When in the search for perfumes containing rose, make sure to look for ones that contain pure natural rose extract, otherwise, you risk investing in one that may cause you skin irritation. What’s more, the longevity of these perfumes simply cannot be compared to one of those perfumes that contain pure rose extract.
Patchouli
Patchouli is an Indian bush the extracts of which are used for adding woody notes in perfumes. However, this woody scent doesn’t come from the wood itself but from its leaves. This is an old perfume scent that became popular in Europe with Napoleon Bonaparte.
Patchouli is known for its mystery, magical and spicy aroma that is mainly used as a base note in most perfumes. Just like with jasmine, its entire scent and aroma profile can differ because it depends mainly on:
- time of harvest
- cultivation techniques
- drying process
- distillation techniques
According to perfumers, this scent goes well with lavender, sandalwood, rose, clove, cedarwood and labdanum.
Sandalwood
The last but not least ingredient you can find in perfumes is sandalwood. This is another woody scent that comes from Asia. It has a sweet and intoxicating smell that goes well with most floral scents. Quite often, this scent is used as a base note because of its calming, relaxing, captivating and long-lasting smell.
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