Le Sens

rfumes are made with a combination of three main constituents. These are essential oils; ethyl alcohol; and distilled water. Lasting time for all our perfumes are 7 to 8 hours depending on the skin type and how it’s been used. Some of the raw materials used in our perfumes could be: flowers; grasses; spices; fruits; wood; roots; resins; balsams; leaves; and gums. Collection: before any manufacturing process can begin, all the initial ingredients must be brought to the manufacturing centres. Plants substances are harvested from around the globe, and often hand-picked for their beautiful fragrances. Perfume chemists are the people who makes perfumes. Blending: Once the perfume oils are collected, they are ready to be blended in together according to a formula determined by a Master in this field, and knows as the “Nose”. Most full perfumes are made of about 10-20 percent perfume oils dissolved in alcohol and a trace of water. Aging: Fine perfume is often aged for several months or even years after it is blended. Following this a “Nose” will once again test the perfume to ensure that the correct scent has been achieved. Each essential oil and perfume has three notes – ‘notes de tete’, meaning top notes; ‘notes de coeur’, meaning central or heart notes, and ‘notes de fond’, is the base notes. Top notes have tangy or citrus- like smells; central notes have aromatic flowers like the roses and jasmine. It provide body; and the base notes - woody fragrances will provide an enduring fragrance. More “notes” of various smells may necessarily be further blended. Quality control: Because all our perfumes depend heavily on harvests of plant substances and therefore perfumery can often turn risky. Thousands of flowers are needed to obtain just one pound of essential oils, and if the season’s crop is destroyed by disease or could be due to adverse weather, our perfumes could be in jeopardy. In addition, consistency is very hard to maintain in natural oils. The same species of plant raised in several different areas with slightly different growing conditions may not yield oils with exactly the same scent. Synthetic perfumes have allowed perfumes more freedom and stability in their craft, even though natural ingredients are considered more desirable in the very finest perfumes. The use of synthetic perfumes and oils can eliminates the need to extract oils from animals and removes the risk of a bad plant harvest, saving much expense and the lives of many animals.