Bold and alluring, oriental perfumes are intense, mysterious, and sensual. You will not make a mistake if you decide to use an oriental fragrance for an evening out. Famous for their spicy notes, oriental perfumes often feature exotic fragrance notes...

Patchouli is an exotic bush from the mint family with pinkish-white flowers. It grows mainly in India and has a very strong aroma. It’s been used for its scent since antiquity in perfumery, in incense, and in insect repellents. The...

Bergamot is often found as a top note in perfumes because of its ability to combine very well with other aromas to create more complex scents. It is produced by cold-pressing of the outer layer of bergamot orange fruit (Citrus...

Benzoin resin is commonly used in the perfumery because of its great fixative properties and its unique sweet and warm scent of vanilla and caramel. Apart from perfumery, it is also used in a lot of other areas – cosmetics...

Vetiver (also known as Chrysopogon zizanioides, or vetyver in French) is a very commonly used perfume ingredient. It is a plant that looks like very long grass with reddish-brown blossoms. You can find this plant in India, Indonesia, Haiti, China,...

Amber has been famous for its charm, warmth, and grace ever since antiquity. There are a lot of poetic descriptions of this fossilized resin: Tears of the sun, Tiger’s soul, Hardened honey, Window to the past… The usage of amber...

The term musk refers to a class of fragrant substances and it is usually used as a base note in perfumes. Its Latin name is Moschus Moschiferus and it can be derived either naturally (from the perineal glands of the...