A perfume addict dictionary that everyone should know. It doesn’t matter how many scents are on your shelf.
The number of people obsessed with perfume is growing steadily. They got the names “perfume addict, perfume maniac or scent hunter.” As a rule, fragrances are more important to them than buying new shoes, traveling or a fur coat. They measure everything in the categories of bottles or casts, go out to drinks and have fun. Let’s take a look at all the terms in order.
A perfume addict is a person who cannot imagine his life without perfumes and spends most of his salary on them. The number of bottles in the closet has been over 100 for a long time, and they want new perfumery discoveries. This is not a kind of addiction at all, but also a kind of addiction that has deep roots.
There are more perfume addicts among women. On the one hand, the instinct of collecting, which has been inherent in us for a long time, is to blame for everything. And if earlier women collected various herbs and flowers, now there are bottles (with herbs and flowers in the composition).
The hunt for fragrances is a favorite occupation of the perfume addict. Just go to the store and buy a bottle is a simple and expensive business.
Therefore, valuable items are hunted at perfume forums, flea markets, Ibee and Avito. This way you can save money and enjoy the search process. Secondly, perfume addicts are often looking for the scent of their dreams. This can be a vivid memory from childhood, when rivers of milk flowed along the banks of the jelly, and they were happy. Or a scent heard from a stranger on the street. Perfume addicts get much more emotion from inhaling a new scent than from reading a book or watching a movie.
Drinking is all about drinking alcoholic beverages, as the name suggests, but dividing a bottle of perfume. As a rule, the contents of the bottle are poured into atomizers. Drinks are arranged in order to save money. Sometimes the budget does not allow buying a bottle, but you can already afford 10 ml of the fragrance today.
Casting – an atomizer or glass vial filled with perfume from a drink. Its volume can vary from 5 ml to 100 ml.
A flanker is not at all a fortification covering the flank, as it seems on first reading. And variations on the theme of a famous scent. The bottle and packaging remain the same, but the color palette changes and new decorative elements are added.
The names of the perfume are expanded with the words summer, legere, etc. As a rule, this is done to attract a new target audience.
For example, the flanker for Chanel No. 5 – Chanel N ° 5 L’Eau is intended for a young audience, for which the classic scent seems too heavy and old-fashioned. The new version is a lighter and fresher interpretation of the original. The record holders for the production of flankers are large perfume houses: Guerlain, Chanel, Dior, Lancome, Cacharel, YSL.
Bodryushage is a difficult to pronounce word denotes an equally complex process – the manual technique of sealing the bottles of the famous Chanel fragrances. The technique has been used for over 90 years, it has been used by the fashion house since 1921 and is used for all fragrances in the Parfum concentration. Thanks to this, the aroma does not fade and retains its freshness for a long time. First, a thin membrane is applied to the neck and the cork of the bottle, then it is fixed with threads of mother-of-pearl cotton. After that, a wax seal is put on the bottle.
Grandmother’s Chest – this is the name for the classic fragrances of the past, which now seem outdated due to the presence of a retronale in them. The feeling of “grandmother’s chest” is most often due to aldehyde notes, which give the scent a soapiness, as well as vegetable musk in the base, which adds powderiness to the scent. This can make scents feel dusty, old and stuffy.
A broken note is a fragrance note damaged by time or storage conditions that does not sound right. The note can become acidic, oily, or simply evaporate. As a rule, this applies to the top notes, as they contain the most volatile substances.
The broken note is most often found in vintage fragrances (over 15 years old). In order to understand that the note is broken, you need to know the original sound of the aroma.
To carry scent means using scent in different weather, season and time of day. The sound of the fragrance can change due to weather conditions, as well as due to hormonal changes. Therefore, before drawing a conclusion, whether you like it or not, it is customary to wear it out.
The dominant is the most noticeable note in the fragrance. For example, there may be floral notes with a jasmine dominant. Or woody notes with a vetiver dominant. Thanks to the dominant, you can form your perfume preferences and understand what you like or not.
A blotter is a piece of heavy paper with a rough, porous, or “corrugated” surface on which shop assistants apply scent to let us taste it. Literally translated from English, blotter is a blotter. It was originally used to remove excess ink from the nib, and then someone noticed that the porous structure is ideal for appreciating the full sound of the scent. This is how paper blotters appeared. Today there are ceramic, volcanic and wood blotters. They are usually used in presentations to make an unforgettable impression on the guests who have come.
Sits close to the skin – this is how they say about a fragrance that does not have a long trail, and only the closest environment or the owner of the very skin on which the fragrance was applied can hear it.
Namaz is not a religious Muslim term at all, but a way of applying a scent. As a rule, highly concentrated perfumes, which do not have a puller, are applied by namaz. Or, in order not to aromatize the space around, they spin the atomizer and apply the aroma to the body with the reverse side of the bullet tube. A synonym for namaz is spot application.
Russian leather is a genre of leather fragrances based on the smell of Russian yuft or leather impregnated with birch tar. For example, Cuir de Russie from Chanel or Cuir de Lancome, Lancome.
Florient scent – the term consists of two concepts: floral, that is, floral and oriental, that is, oriental. It is a floral oriental scent that combines floral notes with a sweet oriental base. This perfume has a long trail and rich warm sound and is suitable for the autumn-winter season. For example, Black Orchid by Tom Ford or Altesse Mysore by Alexandre. J.