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http://www.bojensen.net/EssentialOilsEng/EssentialOils.htm
Described as "a small guide to nature's fragrances - aspects of the chemistry of essential oils (and other materials
of perfumery or culinary interest)", this website designed by a scientist features a compendium of fragrance ingredients.
The site has four indexes: English, Latin genus, Latin systematic, and chemical. Includes dense, compact descriptions,
images, and diagrams of molecular structure.
An adequate synopsis of the subject, with few errors. Explains olfactive (fragrance) families; fragrance "notes"
(top, heart, and base); natural and synthetic ingredients used and the processes involved in obtaining them; and a brief history
of perfume and perfumery. Also contains a list of some of the most famous perfumes, the year they were created, and the artist
(or "nose") responsible for creating them.
Go to wikipedia "Perfume" article
This is the official website of the Fragrance Foundation, a marketing
and public relations organization founded in 1949 by six fragrance industry leaders. Members include manufacturers, suppliers,
media, advertising and public relations agencies, as well as designers, packagers and retailers.
Go to the Fragrance Foundation website
www.fragrancesoftheworld.com
This is a commercial site owned by Michael Edwards, a perfume writer
and critic. He produces an annual perfume reference guide for retailers, Fragrances of the world. This website offers
several interactive features, including a "fragrance wheel." Each color on the wheel stands for a particular subcategory
of fragrance (e.g., "floral oriental" or "green"). When you roll your mouse over a color, you see a description of that
subcategory, along with the brand name of a perfume belonging in that group. The site also offers a limited version of Edwards'
Fragrances of the World marketing database. It contains information on fragrances currently distributed in the U.S., including
launch dates (US and European), description, fragrance family category, essential oil house, as well as distributor and company
contact information.
Go to Fragrances of the World website
www.healthy.net
This health-oriented website--unfortunately replete with advertisements--features "A History of Fragrance," an excerpt from
Aromatherapy: A Complete Guide to the Healing Art, by Kathi Keville and Mindy Green, published by Crossing Press.
It contains an excellent introduction to the history of perfume, especially during ancient times.
To reach the article, you must click on "Aromatherapy" under "Alternative Therapies," about half-way down the page, or you
may use the link below.
Go to "A History of Fragrance" article on the Health World Online website
www.en.museesdegrasse.com
This is the official website of the three Musees de Grasse (museums
of Grasse, France), one of which is the International Perfume Museum. The website is available in French, English, and Spanish.
Go to Musees de Grasse website
www.nstperfume.com
This perfume blog features a comprehensive glossary of perfume terms.
Go to "Now Smell This" perfume glossary
www.osmoz.com
This commercial website is available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The "encyclo" section of
the OsMoz website is truly encyclopedic; it covers history, ingredients, production techniques, olfactory families, as well
as a complete list of brands and fragrances. Comprehensive, well-organized, and beautifully illustrated.
Go to OsMoz "encyclo"
www.perfumersworld.com
This site features a glossary of perfume terminology, a short introductory
course on perfume composition, and a description of raw materials used in perfumery. Click "Discovery" in the menu bar at
the top.
Go to "Perfumers World"
Go to Perfumers World videos
www.perfumes.com
This commercial website has detailed background sections on the history of perfume; on the required characteristics of a "nose,"
or perfumer; on the manufacture of perfume (methods of extraction of essential oils); raw materials (flowers, fruits, leaves,
roots, and animal ingredients) used; the stages of perfume evaporation (top, middle and base notes); perfume families (categories
of fragrance); and a history of perfume bottles (ancient to contemporary). Navigate using the links on the menu bar at top.
Worth a visit.
Go to Perfumes.com website
www.profumo.it
This website features an "alphabet of smell," which has a dropdown menu of many natural perfume ingredients.
Go to the "Alphabet of smell"
www.quantal.demon.co.uk/saga/ooc/perfumery.html
This is a four-page paper titled, "Perfumery in Western Europe around the 13th century." It is unsigned, but is
part of a larger website devoted to roleplaying games. It lists plants "likely to have been available for collection
or cultivation" and "ingredients possibly available by trading," and cites two reputable print resources in
its bibliography.
Go to "Perfumery in Western Europe around the 13th century"
www.scentedpages.com
"ScentedPages" is a virtual bibliography of print (and a few documentary film) resources primarily about the cultural history
and sociological meaning of perfume. The resources are in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish; only one
of the monographs is described or annotated (the book, Perfume: culture, history, and techniques, is synopsized at
length). There are annotations for popular magazine and newspaper articles dating from 1870 to 1979. Those published after
1979 are not annotated.
Although the resources are grouped into categories ("Culture of smell," "Perfume culture," Perfume houses," "Perfume bottles,"
"Monographs," and "Miscellaneous"), the boundaries between categories are fuzzy. For example, works are listed in more than
one category.
Go to "Scented Pages."
www.sciencenews.org
An interesting article about the attempt to understand the molecular biology underlying floral scent.
Go to "Save the flowers" article
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