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Years ago, cosmetics companies were responsible for the designer perfumes that lined counters in posh department stores. Names like Estee Lauder, Chanel, and Guerlain, were all the rage and these companies would often get celebrities to endorse their designer perfumes. Now days, celebrities dont seem to want to endorse another companies designer perfume. The rage in Hollywood is for every starlet to have her own line of designer perfumes and cosmetics.

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Do The Celebrities Actually Have A Hand In Things?

The extent to which a celebrity is involved in the designer perfume that is sold in their name can vary. Some celebrities turn the design tasks over to professionals and simply give their approval on the finished products. Other celebrities are involved in the process from the conceptualization stages to the marketing of the designer perfume.

While Celine Dion says she was involved in every aspect of the development of her designer perfume, that doesnt mean she donned a lab coat and actually mixed the vials of scent like a proverbial mad scientist. Rather she was involved in the development process that decided just what kind of scent she wanted to manufacture. She also took part in designing the bottle and the marketing of her newest line.

Jennifer Lopez is another celebrity that likes to be involved in the production of her designer perfume. Having once worked at a cosmetics counter, she knew exactly what she wanted her signature fragrance to smell like. The company that worked out the fragrance combination credits her with adding the hint of sake scent that tops off the perfume. She even had the bottle design include a pretend diamond ring or necklace on the neck in tribute to her penchant for wearing jewelry. By keeping involved with each aspect of her scents development, she can make sure that the perfume genuinely reflects who she is.

Paris Hilton doesnt claim to be involved in every aspect of her perfume designs however she does take a large role in the marketing of her perfume. Without her famous face, the perfume would probably get lost amidst the many other fragrances at the local drug and discount store.

Celebrity Designer Perfumes Grow In Popularity

When celebrities, such as Elizabeth Taylor, first introduced designer perfumes decades ago, the reaction was mixed. Some critics felt that celebrity perfumes were just a fad. Today with many celebrities, such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Britney Spears, joining the ranks of perfume makers, the sales of celebrity fragrances is growing in leaps and bounds.

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The trends in perfumes today are certainly a lot different from what they were when Cleopatra used them and when they were mostly used for religious ceremonies, and according to legend Cleopatra even managed to win over the Romans with her excellently smelling perfumes. Today, it is products such as Christian Dior perfume that are winning over peoples from all parts of the world and even though there are no new territories to conquer, such perfumes have certainly made it possible to win many a partner over.

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If a woman wants to win her man over, there would hardly be any other perfume quite as enticing as a Christian Dior perfume and even though every second day there is a new line of perfume hitting the market, staying with a tried and tested name such as Dior will stand you in good stead. Perfumes may come and go, but Christian Dior will live on and with so many appealing fragrances to choose from, you wont be constrained for choice either.
However, before picking a particular Christian Dior perfume, makes sure that it suits your personality and you can choose from between different categories that include floral, flowery aldehydic, citrus, green, oriental, soft-oriental and also woody and watery. You will find some excellent oriental fragrances in the range of Christian Dior perfumes that are sensuous and also very exotic and which allude to mysteries unknown.

With Christian Dior perfume you should also find that the perfumes smell fresh much like greens and the often will remind the wearer of grass that has been freshly cut, pines and also herbs and it is ideal for wearing in the outdoors, and its sporty fragrance will be well appreciated as it provides a naturalness of character that is also married to a fruity and also floral note as embodied in the Christian Dior Poison perfume.

And, one must not forget mentioning the Christian Dior perfume that has floral fragrance that is certainly a very commonly found fragrance in every line of perfumes, though the Christian Dior JAdore perfume is quite exceptional that has an ensemble of different floral notes to please the senses no end, and it can certainly remind one of the valleys and rose as well as jasmine.

So, the next time you are looking for outstanding perfumes, the name of Christian Dior will certainly figure among the best, and as the modern methods of perfume making have changed, it is only names such as Dior that are able to offer many different perfume types including JAdore and Dior Ella to name but the best which are so compelling that they will be hard not to buy.

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Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel did not literally create the fragrances that bear her name. Her first creation occurred as she was on the brink of stardom, about to launch a new line of fashion. She wanted a perfume to symbolize that line of clothing, so she sought out the services of a Russian-born perfumist living in Paris at the time. The year was 1923. Still, she had some very specific ideas about fragrance. She told Ernst Breaux, the perfumist, to come up with something "completely artificial."

Up until that time, fragrances were completely natural. Natural ingredients were all that were ever used to create scents, which varied widely not only by geography but also from batch to batch. In regions that grew lavender, there were lavender scents. If you were fortunate enough to have gardenias and roses, they showed up in the perfume.

Exotic ingredients like sandalwood from India were rare and extremely costly. Coco Chanel had a different vision not only for fashion but for fragrance. Her idea was that fashion, like art, was something contrived, invented, man-made ... artificial. Just as her famous suit and pillbox hats were human inventions rather than natural, she wanted a perfume to reflect that.

Breaux did not invent aldehyde but his sample fragrances for Miss Chanel used this particular synthetic fragrance. Aldehyde is best described as a synthetic fragrance molecule. It is not found anywhere in nature; it is cooked up in a lab.

According to legend (and so many are told, it's hard to sort out what really happened), Breaux made six samples, numbering them Chanel No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and so on. Coco Chanel picked No. 5 as her fragrance. There are versions of this story that say she picked No. 5 because she loved it best. There is another version of the story that claimed that since Chanel would be unveiling her new line on the fifth day of the fifth month, she decided to pick the fifth sample.

Chanel No. 5 was not the first perfume to use aldehyde but it is the first major perfume to take advantage of synthetic fragrance. Like all great perfumes, Chanel No. 5 is a mixture of many different scents. Of course, some floral notes were mixed in as well.

The best way to describe how aldehyde smells is that it adds "sparkle" to the scent. Today, many perfumes use aldehyde and some perfume experts even consider aldehyde a fragrance family or category. A very powerful "hard-core" aldehyde scent was just released in early 2007; it's called Aldehyde 44 and it's by LeLabo, carried by Barneys. An aldehyde scent you can buy more easily is Greed by Gendarme.

With today's general sentiment that natural is better than synthetic, some might be perplexed that the perfume world is contrarian. While some perfumistas do claim to prefer natural scents, most perfume today is synthetic. And there are some good reasons.

Synthetic molecules are much easier to control for uniform product. Take a lemon note for example, used in a lot of fragrances. How can a manufacturer keep that same intensity and quality consistent over thousands of ounces with natural lemons? Different products picked in different places can produce wide variations in odor.

More importantly, synthetic scents help preserve the environment. There is no need to threaten the indigenous sandalwood trees of India or the musk deer with extinction because perfume lovers can get those same scents without destroying plant or animal life.

A great example of why perfume is synthetic today is musk. True musk is actually a natural substance taken from the sexual glands of a male musk deer. Sometimes other animals could be used. In order to harvest the musk, the animal was killed; musk is mainly used in the base notes of certain perfumes. Today, it's synthetic.

Amber is sometimes listed as a perfume ingredient, but it isn't the golden fossilized resin that is sometimes used in jewelry. It's a nickname for ambergris, which is a substance that comes from sperm whales. During the whaling era, whales were slaughtered for their meat, blubber (rendered into whale oil and used for lamps), and ambergris for perfume. Today, ambergris is synthetic.

In fact, if you ever read through the various "notes" in perfume, you find a lot of things with strange names that have to be synthetic. Quest by Niel Morris has ozone notes, Coney Island from Bond No. 9 lists margarita mix.

The original "artificial" perfume, Chanel No. 5, is still on the market. They don't keep such a thing as the perfume best-seller list but it is likely that Chanel No. 5 remained consistently popular over the past 80-some years.

Joanna McLaughlin's articles on perfume and fragrance can be found at
http://www.theperfume-reporter.com

Her favorite scent today is Aegean by Niel Morris.

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