{"id":11781,"date":"2020-02-27T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T12:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:58:22","slug":"11-mind-blowing-facts-about-perfumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/11-mind-blowing-facts-about-perfumes","title":{"rendered":"11 Mind-blowing Facts about Perfumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn\u2019t it amazing how wearing the right perfume can have an instant positive effect on you? It boosts your confidence and gives you imaginary wings that inspire you to soar high in the sky. People put time and effort to choose the right fragrance according to their taste and personality. After all, choosing perfumes is no less than an art. Therefore, we\u2019ve gathered some mind-blowing facts that will take you by surprise and change the way you look at perfumes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ambergris is a rare and most valuable raw material in perfumery that is actually \u2018whale vomit.\u2019 It is produced by the intestines of sperm whales, which is why it\u2019s smell is described as oceany and sweet<\/li>\n
  2. Your nose gets used to your perfume fragrance that\u2019s why you can only smell it when it\u2019s first applied and slowly disappears after sometime<\/li>\n
  3. When you apply perfume, it mixes with your skin\u2019s chemistry, environment, and even your diet. That\u2019s the reason the same scent can smell different on two individuals<\/li>\n
  4. Research has shown that a spray of perfume can alter the mood you\u2019re in. When feeling low, the lavender fragrance can promote relaxation and a citrus scent can awaken your senses<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. People spritz perfume on their hair thinking it can make them smell great. However, perfumes contain alcohol that can damage your hair and cause dryness, if applied frequently<\/li>\n
  6. Spritzing perfume on certain areas of the body or pulse points like on the inner wrists, the base of your neck, behind the earlobes, and your inner elbows can maximize its smell. These spots radiate heat that helps the fragrance radiate from your skin into the air<\/li>\n
  7. Different parts of plants are used to create new scents that include barks, leaves, fruits, resins, roots, lichens, seeds, and microorganisms<\/li>\n
  8. The earliest perfumes were made from herbs and spices, such as frankincense and coriander. That\u2019s why the word \u2018perfume\u2019 is devised, which means \u2018through smoke\u2019<\/li>\n
  9. Bacon by Fargginay was created by a Parisian butcher in 1920 using a blend of 11 essentials oils and the essence of bacon<\/li>\n
  10. In the year 1921, Molihard released a fragrance called \u2018Habanita\u2019 that intended to smell like cigarettes<\/li>\n
  11. Grasse is known as the world\u2019s perfume capital since the 16th<\/sup> At that time, the scent was used to hide the awful odours from the tannery industry and to produce fragrant gloves for the king.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Isn\u2019t it amazing how wearing the right perfume can have an instant positive effect on you? It boosts your confidence and gives you imaginary wings that inspire you to soar high in the sky. People put time and effort to choose the right fragrance according to their taste and personality. After all, choosing perfumes is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions\/11783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fnp.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}