Perfume 101 | A Comprehensive Reference for Fragrance Beginners

Hey! How’s it going? Today’s video is for anyone that is just getting into fragrances. I wanted to create a super simple guide for newbies that contains what I think are some perfume essentials based on my own personal experience.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:50 History
3:30 Terminology
3:43 Concentration
4:38 Notes
4:53 Perfume Pyramid
6:35 Accords
6:53 Feminine, Masculine, and Unisex?
8:07 Performance
8:30 Lasting Power
8:52 Projection
9:29 Sillage
9:43 Houses
10:00 Designer
10:21 Niche
10:58 Indie
11:37 Celebrity
12:16 Dupe Houses
12:59 Seasons
13:40 New Words...Maybe?
13:47 Atomizer
14:28 Blind-Buying
14:43 Cloying
14:52 Declutter
14:54 Dry-Down
15:06 Flanker
15:14 Gourmand
15:36 Haul
15:40 Heavy-Hitter
15:56 Juice
16:06 Layering
16:23 Nose
16:48 Oud
17:31 Testing
18:06 Take Notes
19:11 Application
20:19 Samples/Decants
23:00 Bottle Sizes
26:51 The Internet
27:45 Final Thoughts

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Outro Music: Oh My by Patrick Patrikios (YouTube Audio Library)

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