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Personal perfume selection

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The Psychological Basis of Perfumery
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Abstract

Just as the single and compound perfumery materials can be characterized by their erotic effects, this can also be done for the compositions created from them. However, far greater difficulties are likely to be encountered, since perfume compositions are much more complicated. In fact, as we have seen, a complete perfume contains all of the erotic effects in varying degrees and the overall effect depends not only on the kinds of effects represented by the components but also, in a very decisive way, on their strength.

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Jellinek, P. (1997). Personal perfume selection. In: Jellinek, J.S. (eds) The Psychological Basis of Perfumery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1567-1_20

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