Kama (Ava Luxe) Type: concentrated perfume oil Kama is a musk fragrance with a briefly fecal topnote that sees it frequently compared to the famous Muscs Khoublai Khan by Serge…
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010 (Hyde & Alchemy) Type: concentrated perfume oil No. 010 is a pink-smelling scent with a cheerful cherry blossom note pitched halfway between fruit and flower. The opening is not half…
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Attars & CPOs Mukhallats Musk Single note exploration The Attar Guide The Business of PerfumeMusk: Technicalities, Legalities, and Ethicalities
From here on out, we are going to go material by material, grouped according to the most important scent families for attars, mukhallats, and concentrated perfume oils. Each section will start with a…
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Attars & CPOs Mukhallats Musk Single note exploration The Attar GuideMusk: Perfumery, Profiles, & Ethical Alternatives
Musk in perfumery Musk is one of the four great animalic bases of perfumery, the other three being ambergris, civet, and castoreum. When smelled in isolation in their pure state, all four…
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Attars & CPOs Independent Perfumery Round-Ups The Attar Guide The Business of PerfumeThe Attar Guide: Concentrated Perfume Oils (CPOs)
The final category of oil perfume is that of concentrated perfume oils. You might get to this section and groan. After all, are attars and mukhallats not concentrated perfume oils? The short answer…
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Although I will be doing a much deeper dive on both sandalwood and oud in their respective sections, I wanted to use this chapter and the previous one as an introduction to the…
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Attars & CPOs Sandalwood The Attar Guide The Business of PerfumeFoundational Essential Oils: Part 1 (Sandalwood)
Sandalwood and oud are truly essential oils, in that they are the building blocks of their respective styles of perfumery. In traditional Indian attar perfumery, fragrant materials are distilled directly into sandalwood oil,…
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Now we come to Middle-Eastern mukhallats. First, let’s get etymology out of the way. The word mukhallat simply means blend in Arabic and refers to a mix of pre-distilled attars and ruhs…
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Complex Indian attars are the result of a multi-distillation process, whereby several fragrant materials are co-distilled in the same deg or created by mixing several distillates and attars together after distillation. In…
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Traditional Indian attars (and ruhs) can be divided roughly into two groups. First, there are attars made by distilling a single material, like, for example, rose or vetiver. (These are the subject of…