Luxury perfumes

Luxury perfume: Elegant ingredients for exclusive fragrances

Luxury perfumes are the premium class of fragrances and stand out thanks to their unusual and exclusive compositions, which make them unique. In contrast to lots of designer fragrances, luxury perfumes are usually much more difficult to find, since they are only available from selected retailers and are also frequently available in only limited numbers due to their rare ingredients.

Luxury fragrances come with a wide variety of nuances, ranging from light and fresh to seductive and bold. The elegant interplay between the ingredients, many of which are rare and difficult to find, makes these luxury perfumes an experience that many people prefer to save for special occasions. However, the exclusive fragrances can also sweeten everyday life and deliver surprise moments. Ultimately, luxury perfumes are anything but ordinary and give the wearer a special aura. Luxury fragrances accentuate the confidence of the wearer and reflect their personality – with all of its facets and in its full beauty.

Luxury fragrances: Valuable raw ingredients for special fragrance experiences

The production of luxury perfume requires luxurious ingredients. Some of these ingredients come from remote areas, which makes them so expensive, and some are hard to cultivate. In contrast, for other ingredients, a large amount of raw material is required in order to produce the required essence.

Some of the luxury ingredients used for the balanced composition of luxury perfume include:

• Vetiver, a tropical fragrant grass that is manually harvested in Haiti and on La Réunion. Its scent is difficult to recreate artificially, which is why perfumers that produce luxury fragrances use the natural raw material. A kilogram of vetiver oil costs around 800 euros, and it takes around 150 kilograms of fragrant grass roots to produce.
• Patchouli, a plant that is primarily cultivated in Southeast Asia, since it needs special climate conditions. Its scent is also difficult to recreate artificially, and 35 to 40 kilograms of plant matter is required to produce 1 litre of the valuable oil.
• Oud is obtained from 300-year-old Aquilaria trees that produce oily resin with a wonderful scent when they become infected with a type of mould. It is one of the most expensive raw ingredients on the perfume market and a kilogram of this rare resin costs between 35,000 and 95,000 euros. Importers charge around 50 euros per millilitre for this perfume oil, which makes perfumes with this ingredient very valuable. The “liquid gold”, which is another name given to oud, attracts a huge amount of fascination and has a scent that varies widely, which leads to it being highly sought-after. It can be combined with many other ingredients such as bergamot or sandalwood to create fascinating fragrances.
• Iris Pallida, a liliaceous plant, is another high-end raw ingredient from the perfume industry that is difficult to obtain, and therefore expensive. One kilogram of iris oilcosts up to 100,000 euros. This is partly due to the fact that the roots need to dry for three years before they can be turned into oil by means of distillation.

When it comes to luxury perfumes, no ingredient is too expensive for perfumers. They utilise the most valuable raw materials in the world and create something truly special for their customers, who buy and wear these products with the appropriate recognition and joy. Perfume extracts, which contain the highest percentage of fragrance oil at around 30 percent, are especially expensive.

The special aura of exclusive perfumes

Luxury perfumes stand out, surprise and accentuate your own personality. Their high price of up to 800 euros per 100 millilitres of perfume in some cases is justified based on their high-end ingredients and lavish bottles. Furthermore, the wearers of this perfume have the feeling of being surrounded by a very special aura, which accentuates their confidence and promotes a feeling of well-being. When it comes to luxury perfumes, breathtaking and inspiring fragrance moments are guaranteed.