How Are Perfumes Made?
Collecting Perfume makers collect the raw materials that become the essential oil scents for the perfume including natural plants, and animal products such as musk and synthetic chemicals. Fatty portions of animals contribute musk and other animal products. Plant odors come from flowers, spices and fruits, but not all plants can produce scented components. A small number–2,000 of 250,000 plant species–can create the oils needed to manufacture perfumes. This requires that many of the scents in perfumes begin in a laboratory where artificial chemicals combine to create the basis essential oils to add to the perfume. Extracting Synthetic and animal products already have an odor concentration sufficient for mixing for the final perfume, but plant materials require an extraction of their essential oils. A perfume manufacturer has several options from which to choose. The oldest and simplest method, expression, manufacturers use today almost exclusively for citrus odors from the peel. The
