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A perfume or a Parfum (franz.: parfum = smell; out lat.: by = through and lat.: fumum = smoke, steam; derived from the use of smoke-openly) is a usually liquid mixture from odoriferous substances. While the often precious smell compositions of the do not serve other purpose than the personal well-being and the self-manifestation, odoriferous substances are used also to make for the consumer a multiplicity of products attractive. are practically all products in bath, kitchen, house and garden. Products with an unpleasantly strong self-smell, like e.g. Cleaning agents or hair coloring means, are made pleasant with odoriferous substances of the nose of the buyer. In the foodstuffs industry flavour materials are likewise indispensable, one think of the vanilla, which is used equally in sweet foods and perfumes.
Basic elements of a perfume are mainly in approx. 80% alcohol loosened ethereal oils of vegetable or animal origin as well as synthetically manufactured odoriferous substances. Most of these odoriferous substances can be manufactured today in larger quantities and therefore more favorably synthetically. Altogether today about 2,000 smelling materials are well-known, about 30 to 80 different materials for a perfume composition are mixed. Under these contents materials 26 is dangerously classified as for Allergiker. The declaration takes place since 2005 European Union far after the INCI system.
, Dependent on the concentration at smell oils, the following dilutions are differentiated:
Only some examples. Without enumerating chemical formulas for obvious reasons one does.
A perfume can accept a great many different smell notes by different portions of the basic elements. It consists of head, heart and basis note.
The head note is to be noticed immediately after laying the perfume on on the skin. Since it is important for the first impression and the purchase decision, is the head note more intensively than the others and of volatile odoriferous substances is usually coined/shaped. (For this reason one should already test some time before the purchase a perfume on the own skin to smell in order to be able to judge of - for the carrier more important - the smell of the heart note.) the heart note is in the hours after the head note evaporates has. The basis note is the last part of the expiration of smell and contains long-responsible components.
Perfumes can be relatively for a long time stored, be flown best in a dark and cool area, thus no light, no humidity and no heat the perfume leave impaired or the smell. With to long or bad storage it can come however to an unpleasant change of the smell.
A Parfum can exhibit blumig feminine, maskuline, eastern, fruchtige, pudrige, zitrusfrische or classical-elegant smell nuances.
The perfume as Wohlgeruch is used both of women and of men mainly to underline the own personality and the own taste/style. Each smell note on the skin of different humans develops differently. Therefore it is a little meaningful to give away smells after the impression on a Teststreifen or on the own skin. Smells should be up-sprayed on well supplied with blood places, as at the hand pulses and behind the ears. One should not exaggerate it with the private perfume cloud also, since this can affect other humans in particular in the working sphere much disturbing. In the USA there is already a movement for a smell-free work atmosphere, which proceeds against intensive perfume smell clouds as annoyance. Sensitive persons can react to the partially toxic substances in Parfums with behaviourness, racing pulse, breath way complaints, asthma accumulations, headache, burning eyes, deafness feelings and nausea. Many products fall through therefore also with tests of the magazine test, because you can endanger the health of humans and the environment. Allergiker should do completely without Parfum and products, since the number of Duftstoffallergiker almost doubled itself in the last years. Odoriferous substances stand on place 2 of the most frequent allergy trips equal behind nickel. Problematic a once acquired allergy is the whole life usually exists here.
For many well-known mode manufacturers the licenses for smells and Kosmetika are a very important source of income.
Besides perfumes in many products find a use. Prime data area are products for the hygiene, in addition, life and luxury (e.g. sweets, cigarettes, teas) can be in order to produce a certain of smell taste experience. Meanwhile whole business premises are in order to support certain sensory impressions.
As capital of the perfume the French city Grasse in the Alpes maritime is considered.
In the novel "the Parfum" of Patrick is impressively described the world of the smells.
In order to increase the sales from perfume to and to make thus the customers before the purchase with the different smells familiarly can, become Testflakons (with approximately 2 ml contents) to trying out to the order placed. Small 5 ml Flakons are offered for collecting tanks, see photo. The large and small Flakons (Dummies) for decoration purposes are called Facticen.
The conversion with lady and gentleman smells of the so-called prestige and luxury category (the inexpensive smells not considered) amounted to according to Fragrance Foundation 2004 in Germany 790 millions EUR (previous year 773 millions EUR). In an inquiry indicated 59% of the women starting from 14 years within the last week a smell water to have used; with men the appropriate portion was only with 35% (however 65% a after Shave used). At present altogether 1,100 smells are in the trade available, each year approx. 200 new smells of introduced, of it approx. 60-80 luxury smells. 97% of the new publications are reset within three years, since they could not become generally accepted economically at the market.
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