Question:How is perfume made?

Question:How is perfume made?

At present, there are many of fragrant flowers materials; According to the extraction and manufacturing process can be divided into four categories:

Question:How is perfume made?

1.extract essential oil directly from the flowers
2.from flower extract and after concoctive
3.from flower extract is research
4.made of artificial flowers

There are five types: concretes, absolutes, distilled and fractionally distilled oils, expressed oils and tinctures.


Many factors determine which method is used. Among these are cost, quality of essence, and use of the product.

The basic ingredients are odorants:

1. concretes - first extraction with hydrocarbon solvent.

2 distilled and fractionally distilled oils - involves steam extraction and fractionation. Oils are skimmed off condensed water, is inexpensive and rapid but destroys some fragrances.

3. absolutes - produced by extracting concrete with alcohol; waxes and glycerides are left behind, alcohol is evaporated, most perfumes are mixtures of absolutes

4. tinctures - substances are heated in alcohol, used mainly for animal substances.

5. expressing oils - oils are pressed out of tissue - citrus rinds.