The fragrance notes
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
The usual way of describing a perfume is using the elements of the fragrance notes. We use a musical language to describe the perfume, and this is called the fragrance notes. This musical methaphor has 3 types of notes, the top notes, the middle notes and the base notes. This is then called the mermonius scent accord. You can use these notes to describe all type of perfume, like the Eau de Parfum Women and Eau de Toilette Women.
The top notes is the scents that are perceived immediately on application of a perfume. Top notes consist of small, light molecules that evaporate quickly. They form a person’s initial impression of a fragrances and thus are very important in the selling of a perfume. Also called the head notes.
The middle notes are the scent of a perfume that emerges just prior to when the top notes dissipate. The middle note compounds form the main body of a fragrances and act to mask the often unpleasant first impression of the base notes, which become more pleasant with time. These notes are also called the heart notes.
The base notes are the scent of a fragrances that appears close to the departure of the middle notes. The base and middle notes together are the main part of a perfume. Base notes bring depth and solidity to a perfume. Compounds of this class of scents are typically rich and are typically not perceived until 30 minutes after use.
Perfume Ladies has a good guide telling you more about how to describe the various scents in perfume. Overall though, the scents in the top and middle notes are influenced by the base notes. The scents of the base notes will be altered by the type of fragrance materials used as middle notes. Manufacturers of perfume typically publish perfume notes and typically they present it as fragrance pyramid, with the components listed in imaginative and abstract terms.
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