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The Botanical Scents Fragrance Wheel: Breaking Down Floral

The Botanical Scents Fragrance Wheel: Breaking Down Floral

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Sharon Falsetto Chapman
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If you’ve been following along on my recent series in reimagining the traditional fragrance wheel

Making a Botanical Scents Fragrance Wheel

Sharon Falsetto Chapman
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May 29
Making a Botanical Scents Fragrance Wheel

This week, we are starting a new journey - and a new project - after over a year of getting to know Scent Word Families(TM). If you are familiar with the world of perfumery, you have no doubt heard of fragrance families (not to be confused with my own Scent Word Families(TM)) and/or the fragrance wheel. Both are tools to understanding how scents are cla…

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you will know that we just completed the final spoke in the wheel. If you missed it, here’s a quick catch up on the posts in the series:

  • Floral

  • Bright

  • Vintage

  • Sweet

  • Green

  • Dark.

And I promised a “bonus wheel” for paid subscribers in a breakdown on the central floral wheel. So in this week’s paid subscriber post, I am including just that. It might surprise you how I have done this - and also wet your appetite for what is to come!

Let’s see how this fragrance wheel has developed…

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet and writer

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