Conservative Fashionista

Scent is the sense most associated with evoking emotional memories. It is no wonder, then, that so many people cherish a special fragrance. Major perfume houses and independent retailers release hundreds of new perfumes annually, so every woman can find her signature fragrance or sample a bouquet of scents. Understanding Perfume Composition With an available range of thousands of natural and synthetic scents, perfumes can be quite complex. A single perfume can contain hundreds of individual scents. Others consist of only a few. Fragrances are notoriously hard to describe in words, but perfumers have developed a language of scent to make communication easier.   Many of the terms are analogous to music; designers compose scents as musicians compose a symphony, and they also use notes. Perfumers also bring in descriptive adjectives from other senses to communicate more about a fragrance note , which is why some perfumes are described as having green notes or a milky middle no...