As a fragrance expert, Danny Ventura has been on many teams that have worked on getting the right ingredients to make a perfume. And Danny is quick to point out that making a perfume is like cooking a meal.
“It’s a complicated process and is all about pleasing the senses. Also, it’s extremely important to get all the right ingredients. There have been times when we have come very close to getting the right scent and bungled up at the last minute,” he says, adding that a perfume has the power to evoke strong emotions in a person.
And how different are the needs of a woman or a man when it comes to a fragrance?
“Men and women smell differently as they perspire differently. So men’s perfumes tend to be a tad stronger than women’s. That said, there’s no absolute rule that one has to go by one’s gender. It has to work for you,” explains Danny, who also feels that it’s important to know how to wear a perfume.
“The logic is the fact that we lose around 80 per cent of the body heat through our head and the top portion of the body. So one should actually wear a perfume on a lower part of one’s body — even a décolletage or the armpits are places where you could put the perfume,” emphasises Danny, who was actively involved in the making of ‘A Scent by Issey Miyake.’
“The interesting thing is that increasingly perfume-making is coming to be not just about nature and its scents, but also about technology. So today, you can even create the smell of a new car or the smell of plastic with technology. But there’s no substitute to nature where a good scent is considered,” signs off Danny.
