Sentence examples for perfumes from inspiring English sources

Producers say that between 2007 and 2010 the region's production of the most popular plant, lavandin, used in soaps, perfumes, insect repellents, essential oils and the celebrated herbes de Provence – has halved.

"I love cooking with the delicate flavours and perfumes of Chinese cuisine," she says, "though I really avoid the pungent fermented ones".

"The cicada are difficult to deal with because we can't find a way to kill the larvae in the ground and we can't use pesticides because a lot of bee-keepers bring their hives near our fields during flowering," said Eric Chaisse of the Provence regional centre for experimentation on plants used in perfumes, aromas and medicines.

"The meat of this turkey," he writes, "is the most flavourful and moist you will ever taste, deeply imbued with the multitudinous perfumes of the stuffing".

If your partner has a strange knack of being able to pick out all the right perfumes, this may not be a good sign at all.

This may explain why most innovation in the industry involves changes in packaging and marketing, producing all that fussy paraphernalia, rather than changing what is in the bottle.Another implication, says Dr Roberts, is that it is probably best that people choose perfumes for themselves rather than for someone else unless they happen to know what the recipient likes.

Dr Roberts's experiment, however, suggests that the advertised "Born chicka wah wah" of the product may have nothing to do with a woman's appreciation of the smell, and everything to do with its psychological effect on the man wearing it.Nor is this the only example of science illuminating the true role of perfumes.

They will elevate one's mood but not attract a mate .The fallen sons of Eve?The most interesting area, though, is the interaction between perfumes and natural scents that carry messages but do not have the specific properties of pheromones.

The second is that some perfumes contain chemicals that mimic human pheromones elusive, mysterious (and possibly mythical) substances believed by some to play a role in mating.

Cosmetics and perfumes have eclipsed alcohol and tobacco as the biggest-selling category.

You might, though, have better luck choosing for a close relation, because she would probably have an MHC similar to your own.The research also raises the question of what so-called unisex perfumes are for.