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What To Know Before Using A Reed Diffuser

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In recent years, consumers have increasingly opted for reed diffusers as a way to fragrance their homes. This comes as no surprise, as they’re eco-friendly, don’t consume energy and are usually made of natural or recyclable materials. And unlike candles, they can be left unattended without any risk of the…

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Scented Candles: To Each His Own

Scented candles are no longer just about perfuming your home; they can now also be a  decorative element of the rooms you add them to or they can fulfil specific needs. Nowadays, consumers want more than just a nice smell: they are also looking to project an image through these…

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Fragrances For a Good Night Sleep

The use of fragrances to improve sleep has a long history. In ancient Egypt, for instance, people used to burn kyphi, an odorous resin containing various ingredients, to induce sleep and enhance dreams. According to recent studies, more than 30% of adults regularly experience some form of sleep disorder, mostly…

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Chypre, a perfume with a 4000-years history

  • Iberchem Fragrances
  • 21 November, 2019
  • Categories: Scents, History

Cyprus, the Mediterranean island and birthplace of Aphrodite – the mythological Greek goddess of love – lends its French name to one of the most successful and long-lasting fragrance families. What is not mythological, but rather discovered by archaeologists, is the fact that the island was home to the oldest…

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The enigma of scent: brain or nose?

  Can you recognise hundreds of perfumes? When you enter a place, is how it smells the first thing you detect? What most people understand by the word smell actually refers to thousands of molecules that activate tiny sensors in our nostrils. To say that we smell with our noses…

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Local Scent: Telon Oil

When asking people from our Jakarta office what smell reminds them the most of their childhood, the answer is unanimous: telon oil. In Javanese the word telon means “three”, which perfectly describes what telon oil is made of: three different oils. More precisely, telon oil is a formulation of fennel…

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