What kind of chemicals do expensive perfumes have?
Meli asked:
Expensive perfumes such as channel, escada, gucci , and others.
Like the general ones most carry?
Expensive perfumes such as channel, escada, gucci , and others.
Like the general ones most carry?
Yes, but the formulations are proprietary. E.G. The essence oils are of high quality plus millions of dollars on research, testing, quality control, merchandising, image, etc. When you buy an expensive perfume you pay for all of this, not only the chemicals. That’s why cheap imitations cannot match the originals. They invest only hundreads of dollars and not millions, but never get to the original quality.
Well the all contain ethanol, which is why they feel cold when you spare them. Also water is amjor component of most perfumes.Water and ethanol make up the carrier of the scent this is the actual bulk of the perfume probably around 80%
The scent of the perfume comes from very many differnt classes of compounds for instance.
You have essential oils like spearmint oil, or sandelwood etc all from natural plants.
Also there are single organic molecules, some natural, most synthetic, p-anisaldehye( almond scent) or eugenol (cloves, nutmeg) etc lots of thesse actual some perfumes have literaly thousands of molecules.
Must of the compounds that are relate to the scent have a polar nature to them and are normally aromatic rings that are substituted. There are compounds that are m,ade just by altering one hydroxy position on natural occuring molecules to make whole new smells.
my personal favourite, Channel No5 contains-
an aldehyde- 2-methyl undecanal, this compound produces the “top note” of the fragrance (i.e. the first part of the aroma that we detect, the most volatile one)
middle note is based on a tropical flower, ylang ylang
bottom note is vetivert, derived form a tropical grass.
check out thislink for structure of top note.