Men’s Colognes and Women’s Perfumes are Categorized
jaydlynch on Feb 6th 2010
A popular women’s and men’s item is wonderful, fragrant perfume or cologne. Using men’s colognes or women’s perfumes is a normal behavior for many men and women, and they put it on regularly to increase their fragrant call to others they may encounter. The fragrance companies are continually introducing innovative scents, many of which rapidly reach their peak in popularity, only to become yesterday’s fragrance as they are supplanted by the freshest, newest and greatest aroma. Fragrances fit into one of five scent groupings: floral, Oriental, wood, clean and fougere.
So how are fragrances categorized and classified? Michael Edwards, a fragrance industry consultant, originated a diagram known as the fragrance wheel. The wheel places the basic fragrances into groups. At the hub of the wheel is the fougere group (it’s pronounced foo-jeer), which contains elements of the other four groupings, and as a result is its own family with distinctions and likenesses of the others. Each of the other four groups (floral, oriental, wood, clean and fougere) occupy places around the perimeter of the wheel. Subgroups further characterize the fragrances. Typically, men’s cologne is characterized by combinations of the groups, with the exception of select fragrances from the floral family which are primarily used in women’s perfume.
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