Six Fascinating Facts About Perfume | Axe
To day I am going to share with you what one of my friends told me all about how the Axe’s develop their fragrances. And the steps behind Axe is no joke, they use more than one major perfume house to come up with their complex body sprays. And my that friend had visited two of those perfumeries (International Flavors & Fragrances and Firmenich) along with fragrance designer Anne Gottlieb in France once. Here were 6 little bits of his story I jotted down:
Ø AT IFF's Perfumery School, perfumers get 5 to 7 years of training to hone their craft.
Ø Your sense of smell is like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger and more discerning your nose becomes.
Ø For many years the hot ingredient in perfume was civet, oil from the sex glands of a particular type of cat.
Ø One of the best places to put your scent? Gottleib loves dotting it on her temples. That way when someone goes in to kiss her cheek hello, they get a lovely whiff.
Ø If you are doing a lot of perfume sniffing all at once and need to cleanse your nasal passages between scents, taking a deep sniff of your arm skin (in a spot without perfume, of course) will do the trick.
Ø Ever notice that scents smell different on different people? Well, perfumers say that's because your body chemistry can "push" certain notes in the fragrance thanks to genetics or what you've been eating.
All pretty interesting no? Anyone know what scents they tend to "push"? Have you ever heard of “civet” before (I had not!)? Go spend some time in the comments.
