In addition to Chanel № 5, "palm" of all aldehyde odors rightfully hold such famous perfume aldehyde as Lanvin Arpege, and Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. The first aldehydic perfume came in a few years before Ernest Bo, experimenting with aldehydes, created the iconic fragrance Chanel № 5 - before it is time to make Robert Bename with his scent Houbigant Quelques Fleurs (1912) and Henri Almeras with the scent of Rosine Le Fruit Defendu (1914). Some of the aldehyde compounds present in natural materials (for example, rose essential oil, cinnamon bark, orange peel), but today most of the aldehyde compounds synthesized artificially in chemical laboratories, and found no odor of aldehyde compounds is virtually impossible. In fact, the aldehydes are artificially created chemical compounds that differ in chemical structure and, consequently, by the smell.
Modern perfumers have become skilled chemists (many of them, incidentally, are even higher education is in chemistry), and it all started at the dawn of the twentieth century, when the world were introduced aldehydic perfume.įiguratively, aldehydes in perfumery became a symbol of a kind of revolution in the world of fragrance, perhaps the first synthetic compounds that in large numbers began to be used to create perfumes. In fact, it became a harbinger of aldehyde fragrance of what is happening in the perfume world today - the replacement of natural to artificial. Today, when the art of making perfume of new products has turned into a mathematically precise process, and the mystery of the selection of fragrant essential oils were replaced by experiments with chemical formulas, it is difficult to imagine that just a few decades ago, synthetic notes in the perfume was very little.