Perfume Facts

Freud said 100 years ago, "The quickest way to trigger an emotional response is with scent".
The world's first perfume was incense.
Scent is a mysterious and essential power.
Babies identify their Mother's by scent.
Mohammed granted great medicinal virtues to perfumes.
Scent can change the way we live and feel.
Fragrances frequently figured into prescriptions during the middle ages. 
We are many people in one - each should have a different scent.
France is the perfume capital of the world.
Ancient India, Arabia, Greece, Israel, Egypt, and Rome used scent to heal, attract and anoint.
The nose is the gateway to the consciousness.
Perfumes are composed of notes, much like music top notes, middle notes and base notes.
Scent emanations are an essential element in one's choice of a partner.
In the middle ages, pleasant scents were the main weapon
against bodily & atmospheric pollution.
Scent is the center of emotion and memory, (the limbic part of the brain.)
All perfumes & blends fall into distinct groups-
Florals, Green & Grasses, Citrus, Woods, Resins, Plants, Oriental's & Musk.
Queen Elizabeth wore an amulet (perfume necklace bottle)
to carry her scent everywhere she went.
The Aborigines originated the use of eucalyptus for healing.
The Greeks were the 1st to recognize that aroma has
stimulating, seductive and calming effects.
Perfume can be applied externally and affect us internally.
Perfume can release emotion, awaken joy, bewitch and soothe, inspire and transform, take us back in the past or lead us on into the future.
Scent can simply enchant us now, or send us off on paths of dreams and fantasy.
Fragrance layering - scented bath & shower gels, after bath scented bath oils, application of a scented body lotion, after bath splash and then perfume oil applied on all pulse points.