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In today’s market you can find literally hundreds to thousands of different types of perfumes. All tastes and pockets are targeted with perfumes available from inexpensive to moderate expensive to very expensive types. You don’t have to go far in order to find major brands available.

To describe a perfume the most common way is to consider its concentration level, the notes of the scent and where it has been originated from. Floral scents are the most common ones with ingredients such as jasmine, violet, orchids or organge blossoms just to name a few. All perfumes and colognes are different and they are meant to associate the personality and skin type of their users.

On order to classify a perfume or cologne you can consider the percentage of concentration by volume of perfume oil:

• Perfume usually has 15% to 25% of perfume oil in its content.
• Eau de Perfume usually has 8% to 15% of perfume oil in its content.
• Eau de Toilette usually has 4% to 10% of perfume oil in its content.
• Eau de Cologne usually has 2% to 5% of perfume oil in its content.

New categories have been added due to the available modern technology of perfume manufacturing:

• Bright Floral - most popular one, meant for almost everyone and every occassion.
• Earthy or Woody - straight from the environment of the forest with a very refreshing smell. This one has a strong appeal to the older generation.
• Green - popular with the younger generation.
• Spicy Fruit - a good choice for tropical weather.
• Oriental - meant for special occassions and composed of spicy scents.

The largest source of fragrant compounds are plants. Fruits such as limes, lemons and oranges are also widely used. Some seeds and woods are very important providing the base notes to a perfume.

Most modern colognes and perfumes are made using the fragrance oils developed by fragrance houses using aromatic chemicals and essential oils. They are blended with ethyl alcohol and water and then aged in tanks for a certain time. Before they are considered to be ready to go into the perfume bottles they are filtered through processing equipment.

The fragrances with names of well known designers are often constantly improved to be top quality perfumes. It is suggested that the perfume industry will keep on a fast mode for quite some time in the future due to the high demand that major brands experience.

You always have to keep in mind that different people have different tastes. A frangrance is a very personal thing and the reactions can vary dramatically from one person to another. So better try before you buy!