What is the difference between cologne and perfume?
What’s The Difference Between Perfume and Cologne? Perfumes, colognes and other body scents trigger our strongest, fastest sense — the sense of smell. Perfume is the strongest and therefore the longest lasting fragrance available. Just a bit will net you hours of scent — days actually. Cologne is just a bit weaker and is sometimes mischaracterized as a men’s product. Perfume To talk perfume it is almost a necessity to go to the source of the perfume industry, France. The French didn’t discover perfumes (the Egyptians did) but the French turned perfume into an industry and they turned perfume making into a science. The most important discovery made by the French perfumers was a way to overcome the fact that every scent will, over time, fade and the corresponding fact that some scents fade faster than others. The French answer to this was layered fragrances — three layers, to be exact. In the perfume industry these layers are called notes: there is a top note that consists of the most
