THE SENSE OF MY PERFUME

LongLasting and Royal

Perfumes are complex and it is not easy to articulate what we smell with our noses. We struggle with the vocabulary when describing a fragrance. We might use terms such a 'nice' or 'sweet' but these are not very specific and they are our personal opinion. Instead, what is required is something like a 'perfume language' that is as objective and as neutral as possible. In this guide, we introduce the language of perfumers, how they speak about fragrance to each other. Considering that our nose can smell a trillion different ingredients, shows how difficult fragrance descriptions can be, for anybody.