Perfumes and their use are not new. Perfume has been around in one form or another for a long long time.

For eons people have known about the attractive qualities of fine fragrances. People have used fragrances and perfumes of one kind or another for thousands of years.

However in the past the use of a fragrance was limited to such things as rubbing flower essences and oils on ones body. Perhaps lavender, for example.

However it was not really until the 19th century that there was any concerted effort to artificially produce fragrances, or what we know today as perfume.

It was around the 19th century that the science of synthetic perfumery really took off. Perfume is really all about the essential oils used to create the fragrance. Artificial perfume is about 80-90% alcohol base and the rest is the essential oils.

Perfume itself is around 22% essential oils whilst Eau de Toilette has somewhere around 10-15% oils.

These essential oils are usually fragrances from carious types of flowers.

You should wear your perfume sparingly. It should be applied on places where there is a pulse, like the inside of your wrists or neck.

Why where there is a pulse? Because a pulse is produced where strong blood vessels come near to the surface of our skin. And this produces warmth which helps spread and promote the fragrance.

Although you often see women put perfume on the inside of their wrists and rub them together this is NOT recommended.

Unfortunately good quality perfumes are extremely expensive. Luckily you don't need a lot at any one time, so one small bottle will last for quite a while, but it's still true to say that perfumes, or at least good ones, are very expensive.

It is possible to get cheap good quality perfumes. Like all products perfume is sold cheap at various times.For example stockist of perfumes can become overstocked, just as they can for other products, and will need to sell a lot at one time to reduce stock levels. And merchants will also sell stock of perfume cheap for other reasons too.

So the good news is that it is possible to buy good quality cheap perfumes if you know how and where to do so.