Wondering why some perfumes cost so much? The secret lies in the main ingredients. In this article, we unveil the six most expensive fragrance ingredients in the world.
All in all: the rarer the ingredient, the more expensive it will be.As you’ll see in this article, it can take literally tons of flowers (or their bulbs) to create the oils sold to the fragrance industry.
Some of these flowers only bloom one month a year. Others have to be picked before sunrise. Almost all are delicate and have to be produced into oil immediately.
Those are the flowers. Some exquisite ingredients come from wood, wood that has to be infected with a particular mold.And then there are the ingredients
that come from the glands of animals or the guts of whales. Those are pretty hard to come by. We’ll cover this too (and find out if vegans can ethically wear musk).
