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Choose Your Wedding Perfume

Getting ready for your wedding is a long and time-consuming process. Choosing your dress, your makeup and your venue are enough. So, we are here to help you with our top five favorite perfumes for a bride.

Things to bear in mind:

* Take your time choosing your perfume, this scent will always remind you of your wedding day.
* Make sure your partner enjoys the scent since you will be standing and dancing together the whole night.
* Try to choose a fragrance that does not clash with the scent of your bouquet.

Now let’s go through the list of our favorite wedding perfumes:

1. Vera Wang Eau De Parfum
This vibrant and flirtatious scent is a blend of Gardenia, Lotus, Iris, and White Stephanotis.

2. Elie Saab L’eau Couture
“Here, Orange Blossom unveils an unexpected facet, inspired by the fleeting period when the newly-bloomed blossoms exude slightly almond notes. As its traditional honey-like aromas are subdued, Orange Blossom inhabits the fragrance like a poetic whisper. Its subtly textured floral freshness, upheld by intricate transparency, is an echo of sun-kissed femininity.”

3. Annick Goutal Rose Splendide

This feminine fragrance’s notes are Rose, Musk, Magnolia, & Pear.

4. Creed Love In White
This harmonious and feminine scent is a blend of South Spain Orange Juices, Italian Jasmine, French Riviera Narcissus, Tonkin Rice, Egyptian Iris, and Guatemala Mountain Magnolia.

5. Gucci Bamboo

Fragrances notes are Italian Bergamot, Casablanca Lily, Ylang Ylang, Comoros, and Sandalwood.

My honorable mentions are Marc Jacobs Daisy Dream and, Flowerbomb. The reason I didn’t add them in the list they are so popular that many of the guests may be wearing them. If that’s not a deal breaker for you give them a try too.

Wish you all the best. 👰

June Empties

We are back with another empties post. So read along to see which bottles were emptied by our pocket perfumes during June.

1. Eau de Pamplemousse Rose Hermes Unisex

The hesperidin theme, conveyed here by the grapefruit, takes on new life when infused with the rose. A fine balance of materials is struck, with the citrus setting the tone in harmony with the radiant gossamer of the flower.

2. Creed Aventus for Men

This popular fruity and tropical designer fragrance is a blend of Black Currant, Bergamot, Apple, and Pineapple. One of our most popular men’s fragrances.
Full Bottle: $211.00
Pocket Perfume: $23.25

3. Versace Man Eau Fraiche

This fresh and aquatic scent is a sophisticated blend of Lemon, Bergamot, Rosewood, and Rose.
Full Bottle: $33.99
Pocket Perfume: $5.5

4. Amouage Reflection for Men

Fragrance notes are water violet, purple freesia, tropical green leaves, magnolia, and jasmine.
Full Bottle: $144.00
Pocket Perfume: $10.75

5. Versace Bright Crystal Absolu for Women

This perfume is a blend of Yuzu, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Peony, Magnolia, Lotus Flower, Amber, Deep Acajou Wood,& Bright Musk.
Full Bottle: $40.95
Pocket Perfume: $10.95

What to do with your empty perfume bottles?

We have been collecting our perfume bottles to do a series of DIY projects. I personally think these bottles are too beautiful to be thrown out, so let’s recycle them.

First Project is a decal display. This one is the easiest one.

All you need is empty perfume bottles and a clean wall. Using a mounting tape, tape your bottles to the wall in your own design. This works for a bathroom, beauty room or even a bedroom.

This is a sample picture to show you can do this with as little as 3 bottles and the more you have the more designs you can make. You can play with colors to make it more interesting.

I hope these fun little projects help you to save and recycle your fragrance bottles.

May Empties

It is the last Thursday of May which means we are back again with another Empties.

1. Creed Love in White
This harmonious and feminine scent is a blend of South Spain Orange Juices, Italian Jasmine, French Riviera Narcissus, Tonkin Rice, Egyptian Iris, and Guatemala Mountain Magnolia.
Full Bottle: $142.5
Pocket Perfume: $9.75

2. Lancome La Vie Est Belle

Iris is the key ingredient of the perfume, surrounded by orange blossoms and jasmine in the heart. The composition’s opening provides fruity flavors of black currant and pear, while the base is warm, gourmand and powdery due to almond-like accords of tonka bean, praline, patchouli, and vanilla.
Full Bottle: $69.98
Pocket Perfume: $7.99

3. Tom Ford Velvet Orchid

Fragrance notes are Cool Citrus, Floral Petal Notes, Honey, and Rum.
Full Bottle: $102
Pocket Perfume: $9.5

4. Valentino Uomo Intense

The composition is suave leathery, deep and bright; a typical Italian fragrance style. While the original fragrance represents white leather, the new version brings the intense scent of black leather. Its top notes contain clary sage oil and fresh mandarin. The heart notes include the elegance of iris absolute and tonka bean, laid on a base of black leather and vanilla bean.
Full Bottle: $72.95
Pocket Perfume: $8.99

Photography Contest

Calling on all photographers and aspiring photographers for this product photography contest.
1.Take a picture of a perfume (preferably one that we sell on our website)
2. Tag Maxaroma in the picture
3. Make sure your profile is public so we can see your photos.
The top 5 will be featured on all our social media channels for voting. The winner gets a free bottle of perfume 🎉
Enter by May 18 or send to a friend who might be interested.

April Empties

If you are new to our blog welcome! At the end of each month, we tell you which one of our bottles got emptied by making pocket perfumes. Basically, it is our most popular pocket perfumes of the month. So let’s get to it.

1. Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue for men

Fragrance notes are Mandarin, Grapefruit, Bergamot, Juniper, Rosemary, Pepper, Rosewood, Musk, Incense, Oakmoss.

Full Bottle: $25.99
Pocket Perfume: $5.5

2. Atelier Cologne Orange Sanguine Unisex

Fragrance notes are Blood Orange, Bitter Orange, Jasmine, Geranium, Amber Woods, Tonka Beans, and Sandalwood.

Full Bottle: $128
Pocket Perfume: $7.5

3. Escentric Molecules Molecule 01 Unisex

It’s a Woody Floral Musk fragrance.
Full Bottle: $102.95
Pocket Perfume: $8.5

4. Armaf Club De Nuit Intense for Men

The fragrance notes are lemon, black currant, apple, rose, jasmine, birch, vanilla, ambergris, musk, and patchouli.
Full Bottle: $25
Pocket Perfume: $4.99

Let’s talk about the Difference Between EDP, EDT, Extrait, EDC and splash.

PERFUME 101 – Concentration

The concentration of a fragrance refers to the concentration of aromatic compounds (pure perfume oils) in the solvent; in fine fragrances this it is typically ethanol or a mix of water and ethanol, as denoted on the list of ingredients/allergens on the box. For the most past, this also determines the longevity (how long) the fragrance/perfume will last… Although general guidelines are presented in the ratio of aromatic compound percentage/concentrations, different perfume houses (companies) assign and adhere to different amounts of essences/oils to each of their perfumes. However, the chart below is basically a rule in which the majority of Fragrances companies are following these days, details below:

concentration-perfume

Perfume Extract (Extrait): The highest level of concentration, typically sold only in the top-of-the-line fragrance families. Concentration levels are between 16% and 40% at the highest point, with 20% being the typical level of concentration.

Eau de Parfum: The next highest level of fragrance and perfume concentration. At this level, fragrance concentration is between 15% and 20% with 15% being typical. This level is also sometimes called Eau De Perfume or Millesime. For example, the house of CREED releases almost all of its scents in the Millesime strength/concentration. This is the strength level preferred by most upper class and rich households. The best brands typically release their fragrances at this concentration level.

Eau de Toilette: This is the strength of most fragrances you will find at department stores frequented by the middle class (think J.C. Penney, Macy’s, etc.). A typical Eau de Toilette may cost between $65 to $95, making it affordable, therefore more attainable.

Eau de Cologne: Typically, these are citrus type scents that work well in low concentrations because they have no base notes. An Eau de Cologne has somewhere between 2% and 5% fragrance oils, with 5% being common.

Splash and After Shave: Products sold as after shaves or splashes have very little fragrance and it will quickly dissipate because the concentration levels of aromatic compounds stand at only 1% to 3%.

by Max Forti