Round the Fragrance Wheel The Fragrance Wheel Families We start our exploration of the Wheel with the Citrus family, which captures the zest, and The Fragrance Wheel Families vibrancy that we so often associate with citrus fruit. This family also permits a glimpse Perfumes have hundreds of possible ingredients and billions of different into perfume history, as the gradual addition of more complex citrus and herbal notes has combinations and we have a Fragrance Wheel to show the relationship elevated scents in this family beyond the realm of lightly scented waters and into real between fragrances. Citrus fragrances. The Fragrance ...
It’s Time to Change May I give you the heads-up on a change we are making to the FRAGRANCE WHEEL and to some of our FRAGRANCES OF THE WORLD family names. This comes after years of consultations with the oil houses, perfumers, brands, bloggers, and the Fragrance Foundation. There has been a lot of discussion, particularly in the US and the UK where our work is used extensively, about the term Oriental being outdated, and in some contexts, offensive. Barack Obama enacted legislation banning the word in government documents as a description for people of Asian heritage. In the ...