The Perfume

Some perfumes demand attention. Others arrive quietly, like a certainty. Fresh fragrances belong to the second category. They do not try to convince. They…

Some scents need no introduction. Vanilla is one of those rare materials that resonates immediately, effortlessly. Warm, soft, comforting — it settles into something…

Perfume is not just a pleasant smell. It accompanies a presence, evokes a memory, or expresses a sensitivity. Some fragrances even become true signatures….

In the complicated world of perfumery, fragrances are not just ingredients and notes that are danced together. They are the fruit of stories, rituals…

A perfume extract is the most concentrated form a fragrance can take: the most intense, the most lasting, the most precious too. Here is…

At Carrément Belle we offer you feminine fragrances… But also men’s perfume! While our name could make you say the opposite, we also like…

Eau de Cologne has become a must have in perfumery. To some people, it reminds scented memories and apothecary bottles in their grandparents’ bathroom……

The origins of perfume go back to the dawn of time. The attar is one of the first form of fragrance that came into…

The history of perfume in France begins long before Grasse and Versailles, and it has never stopped. In seven centuries, a craft brought in…

The history of perfume is made of travels and discoveries, but also and above all of some great perfumers and chemists who have considerably…

A perfume is often made of dozens of ingredients that evolve over time on your skin. These are orchestrated in a specific way in…

Like every art, perfumery has its own language. To organise thousands of fragrances, perfumers built a classification into 7 olfactory families: citrus, floral, fern,…

Masculine yet feminine, wild yet refined, powerful yet delicate… In perfumery, leather puts us off the scent. Yet its animal smell has been linked…

It’s time to go back to work! We take this opportunity to look back at our books and review the classics of perfumery. The…

Like fashion, perfume trends evolve over the years. Like the reflections of a society and an era, fragrances adapt and the highlighted ingredients change….

Since the beginning of the 20th century, perfume and haute couture have shared a common history. They are so strongly linked that it is…

Perfume is an ancestral art whose evolution is rather slow despite great technical advances such as the appearance of synthesis at the end of…

After a century of technical progress that saw the emergence of synthetic chemistry and the advent of new and more creative scents, modern perfumery…

We continue our journey back in time to explore the history of perfume. After the frenzy that perfumes experienced during the Renaissance, the art…

As we saw in our article last month, perfume was considered frivolous during the Middle Ages. It was then adopted for its medicinal properties,…

A perfume creation is a long and delicate process. It can take a while, months or even years to achieve the desired fragrance. Thanks…

We have already explored the origins of Perfume through a journey into Antiquity until the fall of the Roman Empire. To continue our set…

To know the history of Perfume it is important to look at its origin. As far as our knowledge of the world goes, perfume…

Spraying your perfume has become a natural gesture in your daily routine. But what happens between the harvest of the raw materials and the…

Understanding the difference between eau de cologne (EDC), eau de toilette (EDT), eau de parfum (EDP) and perfume is not always easy! The world…