Do different perfume ingredients evaporate at varying speeds.

If one has ever tested a fragrance and taken in the sweet aromas, only to find that later the scent has changed significantly, it is probably due to the evaporation speed of certain compounds to some degree. The various perfume ingredients and aromatics contained in a fragrance or perfume all have varying evaporation rates. As such, the fragrance will develop over time as the various evaporations occur, and eventually leaving the final scent of the fragrance for your enjoyment. These varying degrees of evaporation and the chemical contents referred to are the top, middle and base notes. A citrus aroma for instance, would evaporate quite quickly, and would therefore fall into the top note category. The earthy, woody scents are from the base notes, and in turn take much longer to evaporate and are most likely to remain long after the remaining notes have long evaporated. In order to understand the evaporation rate of some of the key components of perfumes and fragrances, a list follows herewith indicating the faster evaporating ingredients, to those, which are longduring:

• Bergamot, lemon and grapefruit – citrus notes.
• Rosemary and mint – herbaceous notes.
• A grassy scent – green notes.
• Synthetic floral or feminine scent – aldehydic notes.
• Melon, pineapple and apple scents – Fruity notes.
• Blossomy scents, rose and lavender – floral notes.
• Cinnamon, cumin and peppery scents – spicy notes.
• Woody scents like sandalwood and cedarwood – woody notes.
• Tree sap scents – balsamic notes.
• Tonka bean and vanilla bean scent – sweet notes.
• Oakmoss scent – mossy notes.
• Musk scent – animalistic notes.

The evaporation process is well documented in perfumeries and as such, the various fragrances are manufactured with the evaporation speeds being borne in mind, in order to deliver to the consumer, fragrances of quality and sophistication that will diffuse well during the natural evaporation process. Our fragrance shop provides full information about fragrance notes for most perfume lines.