When considering what kinds of discount perfumes to buy, keep in mind that just like your retina and fingerprints, your sense of smell is very unique. How you smell and feel about any fragrance scent is also unique. It is good to take the time and explore what perfumes work best with your body chemistry. You can’t assume that a scent that smells great on a friend will be great on you.

So how do you know which fragrances will make you feel beautiful, sexy, powerful or however you want to feel? It helps to understand the different types of scents available, what their fragrance family, notes and concentrations levels are. It is even better to be able to quickly tell which family new designer perfumes you come across, belong to so you can quickly eliminate the unsuitable scents and buy the discount perfumes that suit you best. Here are a few simple facts that will prove useful in your understanding of and shopping for a designer but cheap perfume.

Where Do Perfume Fragrances and Scents Come From?

Perfumes are a blend of essential oils and aroma components, and solvents made to give people an enjoyable smell. The most concrete way to describe a scent is based on 3 things. The fragrance family it belongs to, the fragrance notes of the scent and how concentrated it is. All 3 factors affect the overall impression of a perfume from when you first put it on to the last lingering hint of a fragrance long after you have left.

The Fragrance Families of Designer Perfumes.

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The type of scent of its basic ingredient can be used to classify designer perfumes. A fragrance can be created from a few different scent families. Some of these scent families may not work for you. These fragrance families have been defined and labeled. By knowing where different fragrances are from, you can more easily find the types of women or men perfumes which fit perfectly with your body chemistry to create a great aroma… and great discount gift sets.

The Perfume Scent Families are:

1. Floral – Made from a variety of flowers, these are quite feminine and romantic.

2. Orientals – Based in camphorous oils they include spices, balsams, resins and amber. They smell of musk, vanilla and spices and are intense, sexy exotic. They are considered best for evening events and special events

3. Woody- From the bark and oils of natural woods and other fragrances you might find in a forest

4. Fresh or citrus- Based on the scent of citrus fruits they are energetic and fresh
5. Fougère – based on lavender & coumarin scents. It is very common in men’s perfumes. Smells like wood mixed with herbs.

6. Leather: Based on the scents of leather, wood, honey & tobacco. Very masculine.

Detecting Fragrance Notes Like A Musician Detects Musical Notes.

Perfumes are composed of three notes: top notes, middle notes, and base notes. Top notes are scents that can be detected as soon as you smell the perfume, they make that critical first impression. They are followed by the middle notes and then gradually replaced by the lingering base notes.

Strengths of Designer Perfumes

The most basic strength type of a discount perfume is a true perfume. (A pure perfume.). If you wear a true perfume even if a discounted perfume, you will have a small but relatively expensive bottle of the highest concentration of the fragrance. By wearing the true perfume, you will have the full strength of the scent giving a very distinct aroma.

The type and quantity &nbspof solvent mixed in with the fragrance oil dictates whether a perfume is considered a true perfume, a perfume extract, eau de parfum, Eau de Cologne, or eau de toilette. For your normal everyday use a less expensive, lower concentration discount perfume is fine. The eau de parfume, eau de toilette, eau de cologne are all lower concentrations and are listed in that order. These lower concentrations cost less and so you can buy larger quantities. On the other hand true perfume is more stable
than cologne as &nbspcologne has more alcohol in it.

Learning More about Discount Perfume Families and Notes

If you want to know more about discount perfumes, taking the time to explore these different fragrance families, notes and the concentrations will be very useful. By looking at the most popular perfume at discounted prices and figuring out what groups they fall into, you can quickly determine what the scent will be like.

Some cheap perfumes are obvious about what group they belong to. It may not be cheap but Lily of the Valley belongs to the floral group and so does Chanel No.5. Other classic perfumes are widely known in the industry, but a newcomer will need to research their category.