Don’t Turn Your Nose Up At Cheap Perfume

Once upon a time, perfume could only be made with certain, hard to find ingredients like essential oil from flower petals or resins, ambergris from whales or the musk glands of civet cats. The entire perfume depended entirely on the purity and quality of these expensive ingredients. A perfume made with only those ingredients would have an alluring and charming odor. Those that were made with inferior stuff smelled like an indoor garden in a busy cathouse. Those perfumes made with inferior ingredients were called “cheap perfume”. And, indeed, they did cost a lot less than perfume made of the real ingredients. Back then, to give a woman a gift of cheap perfume was considered an insult.

That Was Then, This Is Now

What gives a perfume its smell? The combined chemical combination of the ingredients does. With the rise in science and the decrease of animals hunted for the perfume industry, scientists discovered what the chemical formulas were of the things that smell so good, but were scarce. Now, we can make synthesized perfume that smells identical to the natural perfume.

Since this perfume can be made in a factory or a lab, it doesn’t cost so much to make. Consequentially, the perfume is usually sold for a fraction of the cost of perfume made only from the original scare ingredients. Synthesized perfume, because of its low price, has been unfairly labeled “cheap perfume”. Although it is inexpensive, it still smells wonderful.

This Tester Not For Sale

Cheap perfume can be found in a staggering amount of stores. You can find cheap perfume online, in department stores, from cosmetics lines, grocery stores, discount stores and even in the corner drug store. What makes shopping for cheap perfume fun is that you are allowed to try it on and take it with you before you buy. Many cheap perfume displays come with a generous amount of tester bottles of cheap perfume for you to try on, walk around the store to think about it, and then go back for it. One of the fascinating things about the science of smell is that every single person has unique body chemistry. This chemistry reacts to cheap perfume or very expensive perfume. That is why you just shouldn’t sniff the bottle cap of cheap perfume before buying it for yourself – try the stuff on. The chemistry of cheap perfume might blend in with your own body chemistry than with incredibly expensive perfume.