Perfume Families

To better distinguish the scents are divided into families: floral, oriental, spicy, green, woody etc...
Everything becomes easier when choosing a perfume when you realize that the scent that will remain on the skin is not the one immediately exhaled by the bottle but the fragrance of "substance", which will spread harmoniously within hours .

However, you must accurately distinguish this famous scent of "substance" and be able to clearly describe it, to explain your desires to the person helping you in your search. A sweet or bitter, sour or flowery, warm or cool, light and oriental or intense?
For the sake of clarity, perfumers, in recent years, classify the fragrance by families. However, it should be noted that a perfume is generally for many families mingled harmoniously. There are usually 2 or 3 families per scent.


The citrus family:
These are bergamot, lemon, orange, tangerine, lime and grapefruit.
Most men's fragrances and fresh waters within this family.

Family woodland:
Fragrances with vetiver, patchouli and sandalwood bases are in this category.

Family flowers:
The scents can be constructed from a single flower or a mixture of several. If it is a floral scent for male, perfumer usually adds some spicy notes.

The Green Family:
This is one of the families the latest fashion of herbal essences and leaves still being in its beginning.

Family powdered:
This family combines the freshness of bergamot with the intensity of the oak moss.

Family spicy:
It comprises a mixture of many spices like cinnamon, cloves, pepper, marjoram, etc..

Oriental family:
This family, very old, includes a large number of Asian flavors, resins and certain substances of animal origin.

Other families are in addition to these basic families:
That of leather: used especially in men's fragrances.
That of musk: generally reproduced artificially in the laboratory and referring to the famous scent of musk Tonkin, obtained from the gland secretion of a small deer of the Himalayas, very hot flavor.
That of the fern: that includes woody, lavender and musk.
That of amber: that many perfumers related to the oriental family.
And that of aldehydes: synthetic substances used to develop the natural notes of flowers.