Why Choose Natural and Organic Perfume?

Natural and organic perfume offers:

You will also be helping to support small companies concerned with creating healthy, natural scents, sustainability and good work environments.

What's In Your Perfume?

There is a big difference between organic perfume or natural perfume and the big name perfumes we see advertised. It's all about the ingredients. Natural fragrances should contain mostly natural ingredients while the big name and celebrity brands are mainly synthetic ingredients with little if anything natural in them. Here is an example. Take a look at the ingredients in Curious by Britney Spears:

Alcohol Denat.; Fragrance (Parfum); Water (Aqua); Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone; Benzyl Benzoate; Benzyl Salicylate; Citral; Citronellol; Farnesol; Geraniol; Hexyl Cinnamal; Hydroxycitronellal; Isoeugenol; Limonene; Linalool; Tetradibutyl Pentaerythrityl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate; Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane; Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate; Ethylhexyl Salicylate

There are a few naturally derived ingredients in here but as you can see mostly synthetic ingredients. The biggest problem is the word fragrance. What is in this ingredient fragrance? To the company making the perfume it is probably a trade secret so we can only guess but often it is a mix of synthetic scent ingredients and chemicals including petroleum based ingredients and phthalates, an ingredient that has been linked to hormone disruption in our bodies the effects of which are being studied.

Does that make you think? It's enough to make me want to find something more natural but I have an additional reason to want to know about the ingredients in perfume. I am allergic to fragrances and synthetic fragrances are one of the biggest culprits. So I choose organic perfume for it's natural sourced scents and no chemicals.

Basic Natural and Organic Perfume Ingredients

Organic perfume is healthier. It offers another way to to minimize exposure to chemicals and an added benefit comes from the use of essential oils. You could choose a fragrance that not only smells great but can help you relax, energize or even improve concentration.

When you choose perfume made from organic flowers it eliminates the environmental problems associated with flower growing like the use of so many pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides. When these chemicals are used or disposed of it create problems especially for those people in other countries where most of the flowers are grown and where pesticide use is far less regulated. See organic flowers.

This makes organic perfume the perfect answer.

Choosing Organic Perfume

I always liked the thought of having a signature fragrance. The one fragrance that you always, hopefully pleasantly, associate with a certain person.

Fragrance is a very personal choice. It can make you feel happy, sexy, confident or fresh as spring. Scents can alter depending on body chemistry and often smell quite different from person to person.

Sniff a scent from a bottle or just after you apply it and it may smell one way at first and after awhile reacting to your body chemistry change into something quite different. Sometimes wonderful sometimes not so much.

All this makes trying to buy an organic perfume on-line a problem. I am tempted by all the wonderful sounding combinations but between my allergies to even some natural scents and my complete lack of knowledge of how lavender will smell when mixed with ylang ylang makes that sometimes $50 or more for a bottle of perfume not so appealing. So I have chosen some brands below that offer samples or are affordably priced so that you can feel like you won't be out too much if a fragrance doesn't work out.

A Few Choices For Organic Perfume

If you are a fan of the scent of lavender like I am you will find a wonderful selection of single note fragrance and some interesting blends. This company grows their own certified organic lavender and chooses from 70 different varieties of lavender for their perfumes which include sprays, cream (pure fragrance without the alcohol) and roll-ons. The affordably priced roll-ons are an easy way to enjoy fragrance throughout the day and see if lavender is the scent for you.

As a person sensitive to scent, lavender is one of the few floral scents that I can enjoy without problem. I find it to be lightly sweet and refreshing plus it is very popular for use in aromatherapy.

This wonderful website offers very thorough descriptions of all the ingredients and their source along with elegant and romantic descriptions of the perfumes that can almost having you imagining what the scents would be like. The ingredients are natural, certified organic when available, sustainable, fair trade sourced and cruelty free.

It is difficult to choose from so many different fragrances but they do offer inexpensive samples and small collections along with instructions on how to go about sampling perfume properly. Ayala Moriel Perfums will also work with you to create a signature fragrance by using a fragrance questionnaire and consultation.

The Cherry Mango offers this wonderful line of organic perfumes that has been recently been featured in major magazines. The ingredients are organic and wild harvested plants and flowers. The scents are varied like Bliss which is a romantic blend of ingredients like Bulgarian Rose and citrus, Shambala an uplifting blend of jasmine, lavender, rose and ylang ylang and Foxy Lady with a more sensual scent from ingredients like patchouli, vanilla, ylang ylang and neroli.

They are available in convenient roll-on bottles that will easily fit in your purse for easy application when scent needs refreshing. Prices are affordable and The Cherry Mango frequently runs sales.

Fragrance and Allergy

Fragrances are one of the most common cause of allergic reactions and the mish mash of different synthetic chemicals that are being used to create fragrance are often the problem. Since I am so sensitive to scent I had all but given up trying to find a scent that I could handle. The purity of ingredients in organic perfume gives me hope.

For me that was only part of the answer I had hoped that natural and organic perfumes would solve the allergy problem and they helped but not completely. I discovered several essential oils that bother me which makes sense since essential oils are the essence of flowers or plants some of which cause me to have allergic reactions.

In trying to figure out which scents will not bother me I choose an organic perfume with just a few or even just one essential oil. The fewer ingredients gives me a chance to isolate those that are problematic.

Choosing organic perfume is a way to experience pure, healthy, natural fragrances that do not disguise your natural body chemistry but blend with it to create your unique fragrance signature.

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