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  2. History of perfume - Wikipedia

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    The perfume references are part of a larger text called Brihat-Samhita written by Varāhamihira, an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer living in the city of Ujjain. He was one of the ‘nine jewels’ in the court of Vikramaditya. The perfume portion mainly deals with the manufacture of perfumes to benefit ‘royal personages’.

  3. List of perfumes - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Arden (See List of celebrity-branded perfumes) Jim Krivda 2006 Ange ou démon: Parfums Givenchy: 2006 Amour : Kenzo: 2006 Aoud Damascus: Montale: Pierre Montale 2006 Forever and Ever Dior : Dior: 2006 Black Orchid: Tom Ford: David Apel and Pierre Negrin (perfumers of the fragrance company Givaudan) [47] [48] 2006 Bvlgari Pour Homme ...

  4. Guerlain - Wikipedia

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    Guerlain (French pronunciation: [ɡɛʁlɛ̃]) is a French perfume, cosmetics, and skincare house which is among the oldest in the world. Many traditional Guerlain fragrances are characterized by a common olfactory accord known as the "Guerlinade ". [1] The house was founded in Paris in 1828 by the perfumer Pierre-François Pascal Guerlain.

  5. File:The Story of Perfumery and the CPC.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Original file (2,639 × 3,931 pixels, file size: 4.53 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 26 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  6. List of celebrity-branded perfumes - Wikipedia

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    The designation of a celebrity fragrance is also a balance between the public figure's notoriety and the separate reputation of the brand. For instance, Paloma Picasso , Paris Hilton , and Ivanka Trump each have famous fathers, but the degrees to which each woman is associated with beauty, fashion, and retail vary.

  7. Chanel No. 5 - Wikipedia

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    Its success inspired Beaux to create a feminine counterpart, whose starting point was the chemical composition of aldehydic multiflores in Houbigant's immensely popular fragrance, Quelques Fleurs (1912). [2]: 55 His experiments with the aldehydes in Quelques Fleurs, resulted in a fragrance that he called Le Bouquet de Catherine. He intended to ...

  8. Acqua di Parma - Wikipedia

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    The company's original fragrance, Colonia, was created in 1916 in a small perfume factory in the center of Parma's historic old town, after which the company is named.. At the time, the majority of commercial perfumes were much stronger and heavier in composition; so the unusually light and refreshing fragrance from Parma found wide success in Europe.

  9. Fragrances of the World - Wikipedia

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    Some 8,000 perfumes were profiled in the 2015 printed edition of Fragrances of the World, accompanied by brand name, date, fragrance family and gender.The online database, updated weekly, archives profiles of over 17,000 perfumes, listing brand name, corporate group, creative director, gender, perfumer, date, country of origin, bottle designer, fragrance family, an image, an olfactory pyramid ...