Discover why modern perfume feels different from fragrances of decades past. Watch Darryl R. Hunter explain how perfumery has evolved over the last 50 years in this short video.
Natural, to me, is not a marketing claim. It is a relationship between material, maker, wearer, and effect. In this article, I share why I use a high concentration of natural materials, why I still embrace select modern perfumery ingredients, and how skin remains the final judge of every Dragon Perfumes creation.
Dragon Perfumes Journal You’re smelling perfume wrong. A field guide to navigating perfume shows, expos, and fragrance events with a better nose, a better method, and a much better chance of finding something actually worth wearing. Darryl Hunter Perfume Perception Field Guide For perfume shows, expos, and sampling events The real problem Most people walk into a perfume show thinking the goal is to smell as much as possible. That instinct ruins the experience almost immediately. By the time most people hit the fifth, eighth, or twelfth fragrance, they are no longer evaluating perfume clearly. They are evaluating interference, fatigue,...
Dragon Perfumes Journal Perfume Perception Skin vs Paper Strips You can learn a lot from a blotter strip. But if you want the truth of a fragrance, you have to let it meet skin. When you test perfume on paper, you are smelling a clean evaporation story. When you test perfume on skin, you are smelling a living collaboration between scent and body. Both matter. They just answer different questions. What a blotter strip tells you A paper strip is cellulose, which means the perfume sits on fibers and releases into the air with almost no interference. On paper, you...
I do not want you to feel like you are wearing perfume. I want it to disappear into you. You do not wear perfume. You consume it.
향수가 지난 수십 년 동안 어떻게 변했는지 궁금했지만 140년간의 향수 판매 데이터와 레시피를 파헤치고 싶지 않으셨나요? 제가 여러분의 수고를 덜어드렸습니다 😁. 여기 있습니다... 10년별 향수 성분입니다. 저는 10년 동안 최고의 향수를 살펴본 다음 노트를 살펴보았습니다. 이것은 1880년 이후 가장 많이 팔린 향수 중 약 70-100개를 기반으로 합니다. 🌸🌹🍋🌿 1880년대 - 1890년대: 상위 노트: 시트러스 오일(베르가못, 레몬) 하트 노트: 플로럴(로즈, 재스민) 베이스 노트: 머스크, 바닐린, 쿠마린 1900년대 - 1910년대: 상위 노트: 알데히드 하트 노트: 아이리스 뿌리, 라벤더 베이스 노트: 사향고양이, 암버그리스 1920년대 - 1930년대: 상위 노트: 알데히드 하트 노트: 샌달우드, 베티버 베이스 노트 : 오크모스, 파출리 1940년대 - 1950년대: 상위 노트:...
