Scent Word Families: Aging
What Does Aging Mean in Perfumery?
Aging: What Does it Mean in Perfumery?
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Aging is a process used by perfumers who make alcohol-based perfumes. It doesn’t apply to oil-based or solid perfumes.
Aging is simply a reference to the length of time that passes between making your initial perfume formulation and the final result. Alcohol-based perfumes tend to change in their scent composition over time. This makes them more difficult to create than oil-based perfumes. It is also why perfumers can take months, sometimes years, to create the perfume scent that they want to capture because the slightest change in one ingredient can alter the whole aroma/feel of a fragrance.
Different types of perfumes can take longer to age than others. And adding in tincture bases can alter the fragrance process, too.
Aging is one of the first stages of the perfumery process. Next week we’ll be looking at another scent word in this scent word family(TM). Join me then!
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“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
Betty Friedan (1921-2006), American writer and activist
In all my years of practice I never knew that aging was only important when doing alcohol based perfumes. I heard it took time for the blend constituents to 'marry' and produce the final scent. This was a revelation. Thank you!
Yes, this makes scents (sense). I love the tagline quote. Who is the quote from?