The content in perfumes essential oils known to all who use perfume and toilet water. Many even have heard about how the production of certain perfumes can be expensive, because to get the required amount of essential oil fragrance for the new collection, it is necessary to collect more than one kilogram of petals exotic flower. Of course, all this develops in considerable cost of the final product. Why use aldehydes in perfumery know a few, but often their use does not cause delight the user who seeks to acquire all natural. In short, synthetics. However, without that synthetics it would be impossible to create a multi-piece perfume trends, and without them, many spirits would be no different from each other.

Why aldehydes

The aldehydes are organic compounds with a complex molecular structure, but without the water molecule. The aldehydes contained in many plants, but the formula can be derived and synthetically. Opening aldehydes made a huge contribution to the perfume industry in the early twentieth century, and it is with the use of aldehydes in the composition of perfumes started a big way modern perfumes, where one bottle of eau de toilette Eau de toilette - light fragrance Lady   It may contain about twenty different notes, opening on the skin one after the other throughout the day.

The history of modern perfumery complex began at the dawn of the twentieth century. Perfumery art for centuries, but until then been used in perfumes, natural essential oils and flavors are not is complex and multifaceted. The legendary perfume Chanel №5, by a French "nose" Ernest Beaux, have become a real breakthrough in the industry, because their formula was very complicated, and that yield results in the form of enchanting sparkling flavor, which if in a kaleidoscope pulled one note for a different, gradually opening new faces on the skin.

Creating such a flavor of old technologies with the use of various essential oils would be technically impossible. The fact is that whatever the essential oils used in perfume creation, when a large quantity of them are mixed fragrances and perfume alone would almost indistinguishable from others. The main advantage of aldehydes - the ability to use them to mimic natural scents, which greatly simplifies and reduces the cost of the process of creating the fragrance formula. For aldehyde perfume should advocate including supporters of the protection of wildlife, for the use of aldehydes eliminates the need to take to create a natural fragrance material of animal origin.

Aromatic diversity

Species aldehydes, which are used in perfumes, a lot - some are used to simulate the natural flavor, while others enhance the flavor of other, giving spirits saturation, depth and mnogoottenochnost. One embodiment of the concentrated aldehyde can have one scent, and if it is diluted, it gives a completely different odor. This variation opens up a vast field for experimentation and creation of new titles that could be of perfume legends. Today, it is impossible to imagine the modern fragrance aldehydes without novelty, but it all depends on the manufacturer and his willingness to production costs, as well as by the perfumer, to create a composition.

The aldehyde mirtsenal has a strong floral scent and is often used to create floral aromas multicompound Top floral scents for women - elected perfume . Phenylacetaldehyde used by perfumers to create a characteristic gentle spring fragrance, because it has the smell of hyacinth. Citral - nezameniny aldehyde of the formula for creating citrus fragrances, also to simulate the flavor of lemon and orange can be used octanal or caprylic aldehyde. From pine needles can be extracted aldehyde dodecanal, which provides a range of perfumes conifer notes. In the fruit-scented water is often used propanal, which gives the composition a sweetness and juiciness. The aroma of almonds can be obtained using benzoic aldehyde. Pelargonic aldehyde in nature can be extracted from the essential oil of citrus fruits such as lemon, tangerine, lemongrass. In diluted form, he has a distinct smell the roses, so widely used in the perfume with notes of pink.

Formula for Success

Aldehydes are widely used in different flavors, but it is impossible to imagine without them it is difficult multicompound heavy perfume, oriental, with lots of different floral and citrus chords. Suffice it to recall Chanel №5 and the number of notes, which are included in its composition. If you buy a French perfume brand with a long history, it is unlikely to do without the aldehydes in the composition.

Widely known perfume legends, its interesting that the formula required to aldehydes, very much. Among them Dune (Dior), Dia pour femme (Amouage), Aprège (Lanvin), Rive Gauche (Yves Saint Laurent), Joy (Jean Patou), Climat (Lancôme), Calèche (Hermès).

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