Perfume recipes protection
Perfume
industry is the most shrouded industry in the world !
The
perfume world is a large business, but it's a business made on partiality
tastes, and the ability to defend your recipes
There
is no lawful defense for a perfume formulation. If I mix a group of elements
and come up with a great perfume, anyone who can figure
out my formula is free
to market the perfume. There is actually a tiny sub-industry of chemists who
are doing that very thing, trying to imitate perfumes with drug-store knockoffs
labeled "Smells Like White Diamonds" or "Smells Like Eternity."
To
protect formulas, perfume experts rely on one ancient and one modern technique.
The ancient technique is secrecy. You could probably get the formula for
Coca-Cola more easily than you could dig up the ingredients for a hot new
scent. "Noses," the people who invent the scents, work in secrecy and
often lead tremendously low-profile lives despite the fact that they are highly
sought after professionals.
Added
clandestine of the perfume industry is a pretty . It's understandable to most
perfumistas, and it ought to be obvious to people who buy perfume, even if they
don't really think about it much. Here it is: The people who attach their names
to the perfume are not the ones who invent it.
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Good
old-fashioned secrecy about perfume formulas still works great in the perfume
industry, but that does not stop copycats from trying to steal the formulas.
The modern technique to help prevent perfume piracy is making the perfumes
incredibly complicated.
Way
back in the 1920, the same approach was taken with perfumes like Chanel No. 5,
Youth Dew, and Evening in Paris, in that they used dozens of ingredients in
precise proportions. Even if you could figure out what most of the ingredients
were (and Chanel No. 5 has over 100), you could spend a lifetime in the lab
experimenting to get the proper balance
This
is legal, but it's really not a good thing. First of all, it probably does
smell vaguely like the original, but it is doubtful that a "nose" who
could steal the exact recipe for a perfume would work for one of these copycat
labs. You're dealing with an approximation, and that's on the best day.
Second,
this kind of "smells-like" scent is marketed entirely on price; they
are the bargain fragrances. This means you can expect a lot less fragrance and
a lot more alcohol, smaller sized bottles, and all round cheaper development
and production.
Most people I know who have tried a copycat product are
disappointed because it just doesn't measure up to the real thing in terms of
quality
Of
course, many would-be perfume lovers find the cost of their perfume habit
prohibitively expensive. However, there are lots of good reasons to stick to
the real deal.
Perfume manufacturers put their reputation into every bottle;
they tend to manufacture smooth scents, nuanced, with top-quality ingredients,
carefully packaged, and delivered safely to market (particularly online).
Knockoffs and counterfeits are out to make a profit on a cheaper product; these
guys cut corners and not always in places you can see.
From missing or
substandard ingredients to weaker solutions, higher alcohol content, and
dubious marketing, the knockoffs are really just out for your money and the
counterfeits are thieves.
The
other kind of perfume pirate is a counterfeit producer.
These guys not only
create imitation perfumes, they put them in original or "forged"
bottles and packaging and try to pass them off as the real thing. What they're
trying to do is counterfeit an original and still be able to sell it for
significantly less (price is the only drawing card for these guys).
Don't
count on this stuff for purity, high production standards, or not getting you
in trouble. Yes, you can get in trouble if you purchase counterfeit
merchandise. Besides, these guys are stealing a legitimate product and trying
to pass it off as their own. Don't get mixed up in that.