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The World Of Perfumes - Online Term Paper

The World Of Perfumes

Few would dispute the importance of petroleum to the world economy. In fact, some argue that in 1991 the United States and its allies fought a war in the Persian Gulf over this liquid that, at current prices, cost less than half a cent per fluid ounce and doesn't even smell all that good.
Imagine the lengths one might go to protect access to a liquid that, in some cases, cost over $100 per ounce-20,000 times the cost of crude petroleum. Wars may be fought again-advertising wars- this time to claim a portion of the international perfume market, which, according to Smithsonian magazine, has sales of $10 billion each year.
Ever since the ancient Mesopotamians first used perfume in burial ...

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tissue, insecticides, or even cattle feed.
With that in mind, we'll first discuss the ingredients of perfume and then we'll examine some of the new commercial applications of perfume
Let's start with the ingrediets.
Quite likely, you think of perfume only as a smelly liquid. But many connoisseurs of the stuff would disagree. In fact, perfume is complex mixture of many ingredients.
The most important ingredients of any perfume are a variety of aromatic oils, usually called essential oils. According to Edwin Morris in his book Fragrance, essential oils have two important properties- they easily evaporate and become gas at room temperature, ann they detectable to us as fragrance, in umimaginalbly minute quantites. The essential oil of the vanilla bean, for example, can be detected as a fragrance when present in the air at amounts of just two parts per million.
Some essential oils are found in animal products. According to Diane Ackerman in her book A Natural History of the Senses, the ...

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Added: 12/21/2005 09:32:56 PM
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