Exotic, sensual, sweet or spicy ... perfume can win the heart of every lover of fragrances and, in fact, they gave life to the contemporary women's spirits. Long before the perfumers turned to chemists, and learned how to synthesize in the laboratory artificial perfume substances that mimic natural scents of perfume raw materials, spices widely used in Eastern countries. With incense, not only gave a pleasant smell of skin, clothing, hair Hair: structure, characteristics of growth and development But treated all kinds of diseases, to praise the gods and religious observances.

What is incense

Generally perfumes are a variety of fragrant substances of vegetable or animal origin. Historically, perhaps the first in the history of mankind incense incense became Frankincense is a gift of the Magi   - Even in the Christian tradition, it was the custom to burn incense when making prayers and worship. In the East variety of spices more than a few dozen: it incense of animal origin, such as operkulum, musk, amber (today they are widely used in the manufacture of so-called oriental, "eastern" spirits with exotic strong flavor), and fragrances of plant origin - camphor, myrrh, sandalwood and incense is still the same.

The tradition of using incense is rooted in the deep past - the simplest herbal incense have been known since the dawn of mankind, when people only learned to make fire and as a source of heat began to burn wood. It was then opened and the first fragrant resin, and special types of wood combustion of which gave off a pleasant aroma. On the "commercial" basis for the production of incense has been put in hundreds of years before our era - in ancient Arabia enterprising traders were produced and then sold to neighboring countries (including Egypt, India, and even Greece and Rome), various aromatic resins, aromatic oils frankincense, myrrh. In ancient China, musk, as one of the most common spices, used not only as a proper fragrance, but also as a remedy for the treatment of various diseases.

Kinds

In appearance, composition, method of manufacture and method of use of incense, even today, very much - and in every country, all these characteristics are different. All variety of incense is very easy to divide the whole into two basic categories - according to the method of use. From this point of view, all spices are divided into combustible and non-combustible.

Non-combustible incense - is perhaps the most exotic variety of spices, which distinguishes a specific method of incense: incense are to get a nice smell, should be placed in a special censer for burning coal. Of course, at home such incense hardly usable, so very popular incense fuel - that is, those that are easy to ignite. Typically, these are made in the form of incense sticks, cones or spirals, the tip of which is ignited, and then a long dleet, giving a strong smell.

How to choose a perfume

Once, long ago, incense became a harbinger of the birth of the traditional spirits - because if you want to really enjoy the fragrance of incense, and do not choose them as exotic souvenirs, you must choose a perfume just as well as spirits. In no case can not be guided by the scent of incense and even more so - to the smell, which is felt immediately after ignition incense.

As with modern spirits, the smell of incense from the complex, "complex" and drop gradually. Have incense and own the top, middle and base notes. The smell, which is felt immediately after ignition incense - a kind of top note perfume fragrance, intense and sometimes too sharp, which quickly disappears. Choose a fragrance should be on the "heart note" of the central and soft note of flavor that persists for several hours. And finally, the "base" note incense as "base" note any spirits - a combination of fragrances, the aroma of which is stored in the room where incense is ignited, for a very long time, sometimes up to several days.

Tatiana Smirnova

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