of making perfumes. Perfume was produced by ancient Greeks, and perfume was also refined by the Romans, the Persians and the Arabs. Although perfume and...
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Perfume (UK: /ˈpɜːfjuːm/, US: /pərˈfjuːm/ ) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in...
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Government of India. Kannauj's perfume sector has a storied history. Due to the role of perfume production in Kannauj, the city is known as "the perfume capital...
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Perfume (パフューム, Pafyūmu) is a Japanese girl group consisting of Nocchi, Kashiyuka, and A-chan. The group formed in 2000 in Hiroshima, Japan, then moved...
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Eau de toilette (category Perfumes)
(French: [o d(ə) twalɛt], meaning "grooming water") is a lightly scented perfume. It is also referred to as aromatic waters and has a high alcohol content...
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Shalimar is a perfume originally created by Jacques Guerlain in 1921 for French perfume and cosmetics house Guerlain. In production continuously since...
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Tom Ford (brand) (redirect from Rose Prick (perfume))
2021. Herz, Rachel Sarah (2011). "17.2 Brief History of Perfume". In Gottfried, Jay A. (ed.). Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward. Boca Raton, Florida:...
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notability. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Perfumes. Perfume List of celebrity-branded perfumes (in French) Simon Barbe. Le parfumeur français qui...
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Perfumes of Singapore, formerly known as Perfumes of the Orient, was a defunct perfume company which produced the scent series called Girl. Notably, it...
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Opium is an Oriental-spicy perfume for women, created for the French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent by perfumers Jean Amic and Jean-Louis Sieuzac. Introduced...
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Niche perfume is an alternative to mass perfume production. Niche is limited by the clientele and therefore with a limited sale range, thus the goal of niche...
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Jicky (category Perfumes)
produced perfume in the world. Jicky was one of the first perfumes created with the addition of synthetic materials, and was the first abstract perfume in history...
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Sassafras albidum (category Trees of Northern America)
Historical Society Dugan, Holly (September 14, 2011). The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England. Johns Hopkins University Press...
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Lorenzo Villoresi (category Perfume houses)
descriptions of perfumery techniques, an overview of raw materials and essences, separate chapters on the history of perfume and famous perfume quotes in...
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pioneered critical scholarship on the history of perfumery, while his fragrance wheel marked a major innovation in perfume retail. He resides in Australia,...
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Creed Fragrances is an Anglo-French multi-national niche perfume house, based in Paris. It is owned by the luxury group Kering and managed by its beauty...
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Sandalwood (category Perfume ingredients)
Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume, Gibbs Smith, 2001, ISBN 1-58685-702-9 Dorothy Shineberg (1967), They came for sandalwood; a study of the sandalwood...
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Ambergris (category Perfume ingredients)
likened to the fragrance of isopropyl alcohol without the vaporous chemical astringency. Ambergris has been highly valued by perfume makers as a fixative...
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Traherne, Historical Notices of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea (Llandovery, 1840), p. 16. Holly Dugan, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early...
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Mandy Aftel (category Perfumers)
(born 1948) is an American perfumer. She is the owner and nose behind the natural perfume line Aftelier as well as the author of nine books, including four...
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Joy is a perfume created for Parisian couturier Jean Patou by perfumer Henri Alméras in 1929. It is considered to be one of the greatest fragrances created...
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Kannauj (category History of Uttar Pradesh)
kilometres west of the state capital, Lucknow. Kannauj is famous for distilling of scents and perfumes. It is known as "India's perfume capital" and is...
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Parfums Lubin (category Perfume houses)
Parfums Lubin is one of the oldest perfume houses in the world. Its early history is linked to the high society of the Napoleonic era, and its products...
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from plants for medicine and perfume, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze. The protoscience of chemistry, and alchemy, was...
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Houbigant Parfum (redirect from Houbigant (perfume))
perfume manufacturer founded in Paris, France, in 1775 by Jean-François Houbigant of Grasse (1752–1807). The brand originally sold gloves, perfumes,...
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Spikenard (redirect from Nard (perfume))
family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China, and India. The oil has been used over centuries as a perfume, a traditional medicine, or in religious...
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Eau de Cologne (redirect from Cologne (perfume))
generic term for perfumes marketed toward men. It also may signify a less concentrated, more affordable, version of a popular perfume. The original Eau...
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is a perfume launched in 1976 by Van Cleef & Arpels with notes of hyacinth, rose, jasmine, amber and sandalwood. Jean-Claude Ellena is the perfumer, and...
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Attar (redirect from Indian perfume)
of Ibn Sina. New York: Institute of the History of Medicine Books. p. 163. ISBN 087395226X. EL-SHIMY, Mohamed (2003). Preparation and Use of Perfumes...
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"Perfume of the Timeless" is a single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, the first from their tenth studio album Yesterwynde. It was released on...
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