How perfume is created —— Imagination and olfactory memory help to create new perfume.

　　Creating perfume is like painting or creating music. Perfume is not simply a cocktail of scents mixed by chemists, just as a painting is not a hodgepodge of colors.

　　The essence of creating perfume by artists lies in expressing personal feelings and arousing others' resonance.

　　The creation of perfume, like the creation of any other artistic works, depends on the creative imagination of the perfumer.

　　What is a "nose"?

　　The perfumer is often called "nose", but this is not an appropriate word; Just as artists are not "eyes" and musicians are not "ears". In fact, he works with his brain.

　　A good perfumer needs a wide range of creative imagination and a special olfactory memory, which is developed through daily exercise, just like a pianist who keeps in touch with various scales.

　　A perfumer may need to memorize about 3500 different scents. Of course, he must also have a very sensitive "nose", but compared with creation, the nose is more just to help the perfumer in determining the aroma.