It might seem easy to make those expensive fragrances you buy at the malls for seventy dollars a pop, but a lot of the perfumes are actually worth your money. It is actually quite complicated to make perfumes and colognes. It starts out with actually coming up with a fragrance that works and smells exquisite. Then once the delicate fragrances are mixed together using heat and special tools, a lot of other things need to be added to insure that the fragrance stays on the body without evaporating too quickly. Additives are used to release the fragrance on a timed basis, reacting to the skin at certain times to release scent.
Womens perfume can be extra tricky. This is why so many scents are tested on animals first. Makeup and perfume can hold a lot of disturbing things that may react to the skin negatively so you must be careful with mixing them.
Mens Cologne is made the same way except they simply put less fragrance in the solution to make it a little less pungent. So the next time you go to the mall, you’ll know why men’s fragrances are actually a few dollars less than the women’s. Scents are a multi-million dollar industry and it doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere fast.