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Perfume description
Perfume – a spirit solution of a compound fragrance - a liquid mixture of natural and synthetic fragrant substances. Type of fragrant substances as well as the mixture ratio is assorted by perfume creators. Four perfume fragrance groups can be distinguished.
Group 1. Flower fragrances (where basic components are natural and synthetic flower oils, e.g. Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio, Kenzo Flower by Kenzo);
Group 2. Oriental scents (where basic components are resins of oriental trees, e.g. Thierry Mugler Angel);
Group 3. Chypre type scents (among the fragrant substances prevail citrus oils, flower oils, also natural and synthetic animal scents, e.g. Ch. Dior Poison);
Group 4. Sea fragrances (a new group, e.g. Davidoff Cool Water, Issey Miyake Leau dIssey).

FRAGRANCE PHASES
Substances in perfume fragrance compositions differ in persistence i.e. evaporation rate.
HEAD NOTE
– so called top fragrance, i.e. volatile substances that evaporate first and disappear. It is the first sensed scent on opening a bottle, once the alcohol has volatilized (these are for instance citrus oils and lavender oil). It is the freshest and lightest fragrance.
HEART NOTE
– so called mid-fragrance, i.e. medium volatile substances (modifiers). This note is composed of flower-fruit-spice type scents, and persists on the skin somewhere round 1 or 2 hours.
DEEP NOTE
– so called fragrance well, containing fixatives, substances leaving the scent for the longest time, and adding a heavy note to perfumes. They are obtained by extraction of resins of oriental trees (forest notes), or may be of animal origin (musk, zibet, ambergris) – natural or synthetic (heavy notes). Owing to them after the fragrant bouquet has been displayed, the perfumes stay long.

PRACTICAL HINTS
1. Keep perfumes far from light and heat, in a thoroughly closed phial.
2. Waters provided with an atomizer are more practical than those in stoppered phials. You can spray over the body with a fragrant cloud and, which is most important, extend the perfume life by keeping them germ-free and air-free.
3. Before pouring perfume into a spray-bottle provided with atomizer pump, first make it free from previous fragrance, using a solution of salt and vinegar (take 3 tbs of vinegar per one tbs of salt). Shake the bottle, rinse it thoroughly with water, then with spirit, and leave until dry. Now you may pour the perfume into it.
4. To make the atomizer pump sterile, pump pure spirit through it several times until the spirit is scentless.
5. If you wish to leave off the perfume for some time, put it into its product packaging and place in a refrigerator, best if at such angle that the bottle neck is full. This way the air cannot get into the bottle.