Perfume From Exotic Flowers - Smelling Heavenly!

Flowers have almost always played a vital role in perfumery. While most early perfumes were made from spices and barks (they were easier to transport than flowers), it is known that flowers were being used for scents as early as 2000 b.c.

Flowers continue to be important in the manufacturing of perfumes. In fact, they may be more important than ever. Modern transportation has made it easy to deliver flowers to anywhere in the world before they die. This has made it possible for perfumeries to include the scents from flowers all over the world in any one of their perfumes.

What gives a certain flower or plant its fragrance is called the essential oil. The finest essential oils are called the "absolutes" and only come from certain plants. The most important absolute essential oils, as far as perfume is concerned, come from jasmine, roses, and orange flowers. Every high quality perfume has at least a small percentage of at least one of these oils.

Jasmine
Jasmine is maybe the absolute most commonly found in perfumes. It is estimated that Jasmine and synthetic versions of it are found in 83% of women's perfumes.

These flowers are harvested right before dawn, when they are the most fragrant. They are put in special baskets so the flowers do not get bruised; this would unbalance their scent, and the quality of the scent would suffer. The flowers must be processed into absolute immediately, so the freshness of the flowers doesn't fade. It takes eight thousand jasmine flowers, just to make 1/25th of an ounce of absolute.

Roses
Roses have been used for perfume since the times of the ancient Greece and Rome. The essence of them can be found in 75% of perfume today, and is one of the most valuable ingredients in fine perfume.

Roses are the most fragrant before sunrise, so they are gathered at night. The two types of roses that are used most commonly for perfume are Rosa centifolia, a southern French variety, and Rosa damascene, or the Damask Rose, which is found mostly in Arab countries. Roses are gathered at night since they are at their most fragrant before sunrise. The two main species of roses used in perfume are the Rosa centifolia, found in the South of France, and the Rosa damascena (Damask Rose) located primarily in Arab countries.

Orange Flower
The bitter orange tree is very versatile for producing essential oils. Orange flower absolute can be obtained from the flowers, orange flower oil, or neroli oil also comes from the tree. Distillation of the leaves and twigs produces yet another oil, oil of "petit grain".

Orange flower absolute is fairly scarce, but neroli oil is commonly used in perfumes and colognes. Bitter orange trees grow in southern France, Italy, Spain and North America.

There are so many ingredients that go into perfume that it is baffling. Many of them are derived from flowers or other plant parts. These 3 flowers, jasmine, roses and orange flowers, produce absolute pure essential oils that are basically the foundations of fine perfumery.

If you know you have a fondness for any one of these particular fragrances, you should try to find a perfume that uses one or more of them. This is even easier than ever to accomplish. There are websites online that offer fine perfumes at discount prices. In order to smell the perfumes you are interested in, take a trip to your local department store, and then order them at discount. The added savings is worth the added effort. There are literally thousands of perfumes on the market, so you are sure to be able to find what you like.

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