What are the Process of Perfume Production?

Perfumes and the art of making perfume is an art that is thousands of years old. There are three ways to make a perfume:

Distillation;

Extraction;

Synthetic fragrances use.

The main process that allowed to make perfumes in an initial phase was the maceration. As the word itself says, it is the process of crushing some substances and collect their essence. Maceration consisted in mixing flowers with cooked and purified animal fats.

Distillation is a technique used for getting aromatic compounds from plants. The raw material is heated and the fragrant compounds are re-collected through condensation of the distilled vapour. Distillation is the most prominent method used to extract aromatherapy oils.

This technique uses water and a solvent mixture. Currently these solvents are volatile, meaning that they evaporate at room temperature, such as ethanol, most commonly known as alcohol.

Synthetic fragrances are produced in a laboratory and they give off a lot of different smells. When combined together, they create a great variety of perfumes and colognes.