Perfume and cologne - fundamentally different perfumed products, although, of course, in fact they may well be called "next of kin". By and large, the only difference lies in the concentration - spirits have the most intense flavor, but as part of cologne concentration of aromatic substances, providing a distinct flavor of any perfumed products, much less. However, much more significant difference between perfume and cologne is that the spirits - a traditional example of women's perfume and cologne - Fragrances exclusively "male", originally invented several centuries ago just for the stronger sex.

Perfume and cologne "concentrated" difference

If for a moment forget that perfumes and colognes - absolutely different representatives, in essence, perfume categories of female and male, the only difference between the perfumed products is their concentration. The spirits (or eau de parfum, that is actually a "pure" perfume) has the most high concentration of aromatic substances. The perfume composition usually can be seen from 15 to 40% aromatics, which provide perfumes smell it. Most often, the concentration of aromatic substances as part of the spirits hovering around 20%, in very rare cases - close to 40%.

Not surprisingly, produced spirits tend to miniature bottles (because only one or two drops of aromatic liquid enough to fragrant skin for several hours) and are quite expensive.

Cologne as a separate version of the concentration, not an independent perfume product came about in the late nineteenth century, when, with the invention of the first synthetic molecules that have replaced natural fragrances, perfumes companies were able to produce a much more cheap perfumes. And there was a cologne or Eau de Cologne - the easiest option concentrations of perfume products, involving no more than five percent of the fragrances in the composition. Interestingly, initially at a concentration of eau de cologne perfume their products come even traditionally "female" brands - including Chanel, Dior, Guerlain. But just a few years the concentration of "eau de cologne" was treated exclusively to men's fragrances Men's Fragrances - from cologne to citrus fantasies .

Cologne as an independent "perfume product"

Unlike perfume, cologne in the perfume industry - a phenomenon, in fact, unique because cologne - is not only one of the many variants of the concentration of perfume products, but also quite independent perfume "work", "invention" of a few centuries ago.

History of cologne as the single representative of men's fragrances has its roots in the distant past. Back in 1709 a certain Giovanni Maria Farina, an Italian perfumer, has created (and according to some legends simply stolen by Italian nuns) special "recipe" of the original flavor and founded in the German city of Cologne, the entire factory for the production of cologne. The name of the original flavor is obtained after Cologne - German its name sounds like «Kölnisch Wasser», or "Cologne Water" and in French - «Eau de Cologne», that is, in fact, "cologne." The name original perfume product enterprising Italians kept to this day.

Thus, long before the 19th century enterprising perfumers borrowed the original name of cologne for a fundamentally new version of the product concentration of perfume, cologne perfume as a standalone product is already popular. The original cologne had such a pleasant smell that very soon its "author" Giovanni Farina became the official supplier of many royal families (known, for example, that a big fan of "Cologne Water" was the Prussian King Frederick II).

Tatiana Smirnova

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