Perfume Facts

• Freud said 100 years ago, "The quickest way to trigger an emotional response is with scent".
• The world's first perfume was incense.
• Scent is a mysterious and essential power.
• Babies identify their Mother's by scent.
• Mohammed granted great medicinal virtues to perfumes.
• Scent can change the way we live and feel.
• Fragrances frequently figured into prescriptions during the middle ages.
• France is the perfume capital of the world.
• Ancient India, Arabia, Greece, Israel, Egypt, and Rome used scent to heal, attract and anoint.
• The nose is the gateway to the consciousness.
• Perfumes are composed of notes, much like music top notes, middle notes and base notes.
• Scent emanations are an essential element in one's choice of a partner.
• In the middle ages, pleasant scents were the main weapon against bodily & atmospheric pollution.
• Scent is the center of emotion and memory, (the limbic part of the brain.)
• All perfumes & blends fall into distinct groups-
• Florals, Green & Grasses, Citrus, Woods, Resins, Plants, Oriental's & Musk.
• Queen Elizabeth wore an amulet (perfume necklace bottle) to carry her scent everywhere she went.
• The Aborigines originated the use of eucalyptus for healing.
• The Greeks were the 1st to recognize that aroma has stimulating, seductive and calming effects.
• Perfume can be applied externally and affect us internally.
• Perfume can release emotion, awaken joy, bewitch and soothe, inspire and transform, take us back in the past or lead us on into the future.
• Scent can simply enchant us now, or send us off on paths of dreams and fantasy.
• Fragrance layering - scented bath & shower gels, after bath scented bath oils, application of a scented body lotion, after bath splash and then perfume oil applied on all pulse points.