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Why do you recommend children don’t use your products?

Essential oils and perfumes are concentrated scents. Children have very sensitive skin and a smaller body volume. Perfumes and essential oils are too strong. Children also have not developed their palette fully enough to appreciate (or even like) the scents until at least 10yrs old but mostly after puberty has begun. For more information we recommend the Basic Scent blending workshop or Potions and Lotions for Young Perfumers for those aged 11 - 15 years.

Should you choose a perfume to please your partner or yourself?

Yourself first. When you are feeling fabulous you radiate a kind of beauty that any partner thats right for you should also love. Of course it helps for your partner to like it too!

Why are the bottles all the same look?

Our fragrances are made in small batches at the Perfumery. This allows us to make available the largest range for you to choose from. While the appearance may be uniform, each fragrance has its own distinct personality beyond the surface of the box.

Are there any animal products in your perfumes?

No. None. The only intentional animal derived product we are aware of is in the silk cream. This contains silk protein powder taken from the discarded silk moth cocoons. We go to great lengths to exclude unnecessary animal ingredients and have a strict no animal testing policy.

What do you mean by botanical extracts?

All of the perfumes are formed using essential oils in their various forms, such as concrete, resin, absolute and liquid oil, that are obtained from plants.

 

What is the difference between natural, botanical, and synthetic?

Natural can be from any source from nature, botanical is from a plant source, synthetic is a manmade creation to mimic another source.

Does this mean Fleurage would never use synthetics?

We never say never. If tomorrow the IFFA succeeded in banning all botanical extracts- meaning essential oils- for use in perfumes Fleurage as a brand would adapt. We would of course make it absolutely clear if we were to ever use any kind of synthetic scent and the reasons why. Note however with the world of botanical extracts so rich and diverse this is unlikely in the foreseeable future.

What do you mean by “chemical companies”?

Companies that manufacture synthetic scent compounds and isolates for sources other than the plant they originally come from.

Can two different perfumes have the same name?

Perfumes are able to have the same name unless there is an enforceable trademark. This is usually only applicable in the case of a unique name. A word with common usage is difficult to trademark.

Which products are made where?

Fleurage has a source locally first policy on everything we undertake.

Perfumes

The botanical extracts come from all over the world and are purchased for Fleurage by either an Australian Oil broker or from Australian companies who source the ingredients. The perfumer’s alcohol comes from Australia. The perfume bottles come from a small company in Taiwan after exhausting all avenues in Australia first. The perfume boxes and labeling are all made and printed in Australia and put together in the perfumery.

Bath and Body products

All product ingredients and packaging is purchased in Australia but some components come from overseas. All labeling is made in Australia and all products manufactured in the perfumery except for the soaps which are sourced locally.

Why are natural oils so much more expensive?

 

It never sounds convincing when the manufacturer tells you about how costly their materials are so allow us to quote from Wikipedia: "…1 kilogram of the natural oil requires processing several million jasmine blossoms and costs around $10,000, indole (among other things) is used in the manufacture of synthetic jasmine oil (which costs around $10/kg)."

Go to Wiki Page on Indoles.

 

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