Perfume research

Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixtives and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects and living spaces a pleasent scent. the scents created are typically extracted from plants or animal sources. Perfume is genrally used as a way to create a pleasent scent on a person, normally a person would use this in a way of attracting another person. Modern perfume began in the late 1800s with the commercail synthetics of aroma compounds such as vanillin or coumarin.

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