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Perfume Houses - Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta is a globally recognised designer and has carved a name for himself as the embodiment of elegance and sophistication. While an art student in Madrid, he provided sketches for leading Spanish fashion houses and apprenticed with revered couturier Balenciaga. After a short tenure with the House of Lanvin in Paris, he headed for New York to launch his own couture collection. Today, the world of Oscar de la Renta features ready-to-wear, jewelry, lingerie, menswear, scarves, sunglasses, and fragrance, all created with that traditional elegance and timeless quality that is synonmous with this designer.

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Perfume
This is the extract or extrait of a fragrance and represents the scent in its purest form. This often creates a smooth and round texture, which is hard to achieve with the dilution represented in the other concentrations of fragrance.
EDP
Eau de Parfum or EDP is one of the most popular forms of fragrance. Eau de Parfum contains between seven to fourteen per cent of fragrance oils and perfume elixirs and is the second strongest, and longest lasting means of wearing a fine fragrance.
EDT
Eau de Toilette or EDT is fast becoming the most common means of wearing a fragrance or perfume. EDT’s are not as highly concentrated in oils and elixirs as an EDP or Perfume would be and contain one to three per cent of fragrance oils. This impacts the ability of the fragrance to last and around eighty percent of the oils in an EDT fragrance will evaporate within three hours of application.
EDC
Eau de Cologne’s or EDC’s were first popularised by Napoleon. These fragrances are often constructed in a different manner to the traditional French Model and are formulated in one single burst. As a result of this process, EDC’s or Eau de Colognes last the least amount of time on the skin and can dissolve within a couple of hours. EDC’s should be worn as a invigorating spray.