Perfumery and cosmetics
APCE workshops became a useful tool for the industry companies
The European Association of Perfume and Cosmetic Products celebrated last Friday a free worksop in order to serve as a training platform for the companies from the perfumery and cosmetics industry. This workshop included speeches from experts in E-commerce, International Business and Middle East as well as from Maghreb perfumery fields. The […]
Tips to protect your skin from the sun
As summer is coming, it is important to remember some precautions if we are going to sunbathe. Red Cross gives us these recommendations in order to look after our skin and avoid sun burning. First of all, it is vital to use an appropriate sunscreen for our kind of skin (white skins with light eyes should […]
APCE organizes a free workshop for the companies from the perfume and cosmetic industry
The European Association of Perfume and Cosmetic Products is holding a free workshop the 27th May. This workshop will include some meetings related to the keys and trends in the industry, which might be useful for those companies who attend it. Last year this workshop took place in Madrid and Oporto. We will repeat it […]
Tips for buying perfume
From the European Association of Perfume and Cosmetic Products (APCE) we would like to give some useful tips you could consider when picking the perfect perfume as a gift. First of all, you should recognize the olfactory families. This olfactory families help us sorting fragrances and finding the best perfume for this special person. If […]
What perfume do you like most? Discover the olfactory families
To help us discover which perfume best suits our tastes, the professionals of the perfumery industry classify fragrances into “olfactory families”. Each olfactory family is based on aromatic raw materials (flowers, citrus, wood, etc.) or on the accords created from a combination of ingredients (chypre, fougère or oriental). There is actually no official classification and each […]
Perception of the perfume
The perfume has a structure in three stages. The first one includes the top/head notes that we perceive at the first moment with the aim of impacting whoever smells them. It starts being perceived 30 seconds after applying the fragrance and it does not last more than 15 minutes. The second stage corresponds to the […]
Origin and composition of the perfume
The word “perfume” comes from the latin language “per” (for) and “fumare” (throughout the smoke). This is due to a first reference during the Middle Age to the perfume as an aromatic substance which released a fragant smoke by burning a product. The birth of the perfume is not clear but some people say the […]
APCE seminars in Spain and Portugal about the situation of the perfumery and cosmetics sector in Europe
The European Association of Perfume and Cosmetic Products (APCE) has organized during the last months some informative seminars about the situation of the perfumery and cosmetic sector in Europe. The most remarkable ones took place in Madrid and Oporto under the title of “Present and future of the perfumery and cosmetic sector in Europe. Challenges”. […]
The cosmetics sector grows constantly
The global cosmetics market grew by an estimated 3,6 per cent during 2014 comparing with the year before. It generated 181.000 million euros as incomes. This information comes from the EY report “The luxury and cosmetics sector financial factbook 2015 edition”. The estimations for the future are also positive. The beauty market is set to […]
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We welcome you to the blog of the European Association of Perfume and Cosmetic Products, a European non-profit organization which represents the interests of companies and professionals that are committed to renovate the sector in the fields of innovation, marketing and product distribution. In this blog, we would like to share with you all news […]