General Information

Smell types

 
Citrus – Hesperidia
It comprise by raw materials like bergamot, lemon, orange, mandarin, grapefruit, orange blossom, lime, petitgrain and neroli oil. Its used for giving freshness and lightness to the perfume. Its a good harmony with woody and spicy notes.

Gourmand
This include the smells which remind edible food flavors like coffee, caramel and cake.

Fruity
These are the single or combined fruit smells like Melon, peach, apple, mango, pineapple and papaw which are felt distinct.

Floral
They are flower smells. In this group, as a single flower(soli flora) can be perceived clearly, a combined flower smells(floral bouqet) can be percieved too. Just like the smells of Garanium, hyacinth, oleaster flower, jasmine, orchid, lavender, lily, rose can be sample. Lily of the valley reminds the innocence and purity. Orange tuberose or ylang-ylang reminds the sexuality and iris which is known with the smells of violet, muguet reminds the spring. And the group named as bright floral is known as a mixture of single and multiple floral groups.

Spicy – Aromatic
They are exotic, burning and strong smells. Like bay leaf, sage, anise, juniper, pepper, rosemary, basil, lavander, little coco, black pepper, cardamom, clove, mint, saffron, cinnamon, tarragon, allspice, ginger, curcuma and thyme can be example.

Fougere
Fern in French means love stairs. Generally contains lavander or coumarin which when smell gives a freshness and a quite spicy feeling, mainly contain the smells which are used for men perfume.

Green, Herbaceous
It expresses the herbal smells like grass, lawn. Gives a sense of freshness. Most of the green smells spring up from galbanum(fresh, woody, spicy). Green smells express the naturalness, freshness and youth. It was interpreted as a lighter style of Chypre.

Chypre
Chypre type smells which mean Cyprus in French are hard and strong(leathery). They are a combination of floral smells like lily, rose or jasmine with the mixture of woody smells . They are not much prefered style present day.

Zoic
Civet, musk and amber are that kind of smells. Amber notes are warm, sweet and lascivious. They generally are used as a base note because the zoic smells has fixation feature too. The zoic smells can be unify with smells of vanilla, flower, wood, camphor or tobacco.

Oriental
They are intensive , strong and exotic smells. They comprise combination of musk, vanilla, spices, tropical flowers, perfumed plants, tobacco, animal notes and special wood balsam.

Tobacco
Its smell is quite strong. It can be combined with woody, vanilla, powdered and soft fragrances.

Woody
They are warm, strong and heavy smells. They express virginia cedar, gaiacwood, patchouli, vetiver, oakmoss and sandalwood as if just cuted or dry wood and jungle.

Aldehyde
Those smells consist mainly aldehyde chemicals and excite the nose a little like bitter almond. Aldehyde chemicals mainly are used in women and softener smells.

Relevant to Water and AirOceanic, Ozone, Aquatic, Marine, Cool
It expresses the modernism and cleanlines. Expresses the smells of waterfall, the fresh air, the transparent like a wind which all give freshness. When they are used with green notes they remind the smell after rain. They are mostly combined with raw materials of moss (oakmoss).