The Journey of a Bottle of Perfume

Dominique: A bottle of perfume is 85% alcohol mixed with 15% what we call a juice for lack of a better word. The transformation of the leaves or the flowers into an essential oil or extract is fundamental because this is where the creation of the perfumer palate happens, he says. Dominique: For a long, long time, perfumes were only natural and it's only about the half of the 19th century that the synthetic molecules were beginning to be invented.