Do all body care products or colognes use pure essential oils for aroma?
No, most large scale products use fragrance oils which are derived from synthetics or constituents isolated from a botanical. Many high end colognes can contain a combination of pure essentials and synthetics. It is often hard to know exactly what chemical or compound has been used to create a scent as the term “fragrance” or “parfume” for example is an accepted term for labeling purposes. When products contain pure essential oils they are generally labeled as “essential oil” or “essential oils of….” Product prices depend on the compounds or essential oils used to make a fragrance which can impact cost. Botanicals are a commodity and are affected by things like scarcity, method of extraction or manufacture and the degree of difficulty to extract or isolate an aroma.
