perfume parfum
Posted on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Is there a quantitative difference in the chemical composition between perfume and cologne?
Most of us agree that women wear perfumes and men wear cologne. But what is the difference in composition of the two? Does one differ markedly in chemical composition? And what is the difference in eau de toilette and parfum or parfume?
How would you go about manufacturing cologne or perfume? How would you make scented oils such as patchoulli?
Eau de Cologne is Koelnisches wasser, which is a diluted perfume. Parfum is French. One cannot make patchoulli oil: One must extract it from the source and then blend it with many others.
To know all the technologies by which perfume has been made over the centuries, you must read a novel, "Perfume," by Patrick Susskind. It is available in cheap paperback from amazon.com.
Rachel Hurd-Wood as Laura in Perfume / Parfum
