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A brief consideration of the topic "Children's perfumes
Attention - very far-fetched (you can also overlook it and jump to the lower section right away, it is even marked in the text - that's how reader*internally-oriented I am, isn't it?) :
The history of modern perfumery begins in the 19th century. While heavy perfumes made of genuine flower essences with animal fixators were still popular in the water-shy age of the 16th and 17th centuries in order to superimpose human exhalations, with increasing personal hygiene in the 18th and then especially in the 19th century, delicate, fresh flower waters became fashionable. Thanks to new chemical discoveries, it has been possible since 1860 to produce a number of fragrances in the retort that are still used today: the scent of hay (coumarin), vanilla (vanillin), violet (ionone) or flowering clover (isoamyl salicylate). Perfume became more and more an industrially manufactured product, from which today all phases of modern art history can be read. From Art Déco to Minimalism, from the Wilhelminian period to Pop Art, the industry offers and offered an immense range of different styles and manifestations. However, perfume also conveys ideas of "gender" and beauty. What exactly each epoch defines as "beautiful" can always be seen in art. The concept of edification through beauty played a major role in the bourgeois conception of art in the 19th century. Beauty and art were supposed to lift the viewer out of everyday life, to strengthen him morally. So it is not surprising that at the end of the 19th century the first doll's houses appeared in which perfume bottles were part of the inventory or in which entire interiors of perfumeries were copied.
In the 21st century, the toy industry is probably mainly making little girls happy (or is it the parents who only buy such things for girls?) still with miniature beauty salons, in which mostly pink, small plastic bottles are supposed to embody perfumes. Some toy manufacturers even offer perfume laboratories to experiment with different scents, proof that perfumes have become an integral part of our everyday culture. Especially for the company Matell, which produces "Barbie Dolls", small pasticcoons have been an indispensable accessory in many gift packages since the 1970s. Perfumes are an important part of cultural history and can therefore be found as toy objects in European children's rooms since the end of the 19th century. Since the 1990s, the industry has even developed products that combine fragrance and playfulness, e.g. perfume bottles that are both stuffed animals and contain fragrance.
(UFF - FINALLY I GET TO THE POINT!):
The Kaloo company has a pioneering role here.
Her cute bunnies and teddy bears are also available as a fragrance.
Now you're probably thinking, what a long-winded text to talk about a vile "children's perfume". But I noticed that although the products of Barbie, the Smurfs, the Minions etc. are listed here, hardly anybody has dealt with the "children's fragrances" in more detail yet.
The following questions arise:
Do children even need perfume? Wouldn't it be better to "educate" them as best we can, so to speak, to "educate them to be dispensable" and not to encourage a certain consumer behaviour such as the routine use of perfumes in the first place?
Are the Kaloo fragrances to be regarded as a gag or are they independent, serious creations?
I would definitely recognize "Liliblue" among many other fragrances, as it is a really very delicate, even tender, slightly citric scent, which refreshes very quietly and unobtrusively and has almost no sillage. It seems so innocent and pleasant that you simply have to love it - just like the rabbit that goes with it.
Other children's fragrances from Bvlgari or even Guerlain are already a little stronger; I would recommend them only from primary school age. The Kaloo series is also suitable for kindergarten children from the age of three who want to be introduced to fragrances very carefully.
If that's what you want...
Now I suspect that most adult fragrance enthusiasts attach importance to the fragrance education of their offspring. In this case a product from Kaloo would be a good start.
Many other "children's perfumes" that my daughters and I have tested are quite nasty and not at all suitable for delicate, small creatures. I am thinking especially of the licensed products of Spiderman, Minions, Barbie etc. made in China.
"Lilieblue" has a super soft flowery touch, but really only a soft touch of jasmine.
Actually, it's even very fine for us adults to suffer from "olfactory burnout".
It happens to me... at some point I get to the point (every now and then) where I just don't want to smell all the "Wummser" and the clouds of incense, the amber bombs and the chocolate lungs anymore. When nothing works anymore, either NOTHING helps (so no scent, a cold withdrawal!) or the little sweet bunny from Kaloo.
I usually opt for the rabbit.
The history of modern perfumery begins in the 19th century. While heavy perfumes made of genuine flower essences with animal fixators were still popular in the water-shy age of the 16th and 17th centuries in order to superimpose human exhalations, with increasing personal hygiene in the 18th and then especially in the 19th century, delicate, fresh flower waters became fashionable. Thanks to new chemical discoveries, it has been possible since 1860 to produce a number of fragrances in the retort that are still used today: the scent of hay (coumarin), vanilla (vanillin), violet (ionone) or flowering clover (isoamyl salicylate). Perfume became more and more an industrially manufactured product, from which today all phases of modern art history can be read. From Art Déco to Minimalism, from the Wilhelminian period to Pop Art, the industry offers and offered an immense range of different styles and manifestations. However, perfume also conveys ideas of "gender" and beauty. What exactly each epoch defines as "beautiful" can always be seen in art. The concept of edification through beauty played a major role in the bourgeois conception of art in the 19th century. Beauty and art were supposed to lift the viewer out of everyday life, to strengthen him morally. So it is not surprising that at the end of the 19th century the first doll's houses appeared in which perfume bottles were part of the inventory or in which entire interiors of perfumeries were copied.
In the 21st century, the toy industry is probably mainly making little girls happy (or is it the parents who only buy such things for girls?) still with miniature beauty salons, in which mostly pink, small plastic bottles are supposed to embody perfumes. Some toy manufacturers even offer perfume laboratories to experiment with different scents, proof that perfumes have become an integral part of our everyday culture. Especially for the company Matell, which produces "Barbie Dolls", small pasticcoons have been an indispensable accessory in many gift packages since the 1970s. Perfumes are an important part of cultural history and can therefore be found as toy objects in European children's rooms since the end of the 19th century. Since the 1990s, the industry has even developed products that combine fragrance and playfulness, e.g. perfume bottles that are both stuffed animals and contain fragrance.
(UFF - FINALLY I GET TO THE POINT!):
The Kaloo company has a pioneering role here.
Her cute bunnies and teddy bears are also available as a fragrance.
Now you're probably thinking, what a long-winded text to talk about a vile "children's perfume". But I noticed that although the products of Barbie, the Smurfs, the Minions etc. are listed here, hardly anybody has dealt with the "children's fragrances" in more detail yet.
The following questions arise:
Do children even need perfume? Wouldn't it be better to "educate" them as best we can, so to speak, to "educate them to be dispensable" and not to encourage a certain consumer behaviour such as the routine use of perfumes in the first place?
Are the Kaloo fragrances to be regarded as a gag or are they independent, serious creations?
I would definitely recognize "Liliblue" among many other fragrances, as it is a really very delicate, even tender, slightly citric scent, which refreshes very quietly and unobtrusively and has almost no sillage. It seems so innocent and pleasant that you simply have to love it - just like the rabbit that goes with it.
Other children's fragrances from Bvlgari or even Guerlain are already a little stronger; I would recommend them only from primary school age. The Kaloo series is also suitable for kindergarten children from the age of three who want to be introduced to fragrances very carefully.
If that's what you want...
Now I suspect that most adult fragrance enthusiasts attach importance to the fragrance education of their offspring. In this case a product from Kaloo would be a good start.
Many other "children's perfumes" that my daughters and I have tested are quite nasty and not at all suitable for delicate, small creatures. I am thinking especially of the licensed products of Spiderman, Minions, Barbie etc. made in China.
"Lilieblue" has a super soft flowery touch, but really only a soft touch of jasmine.
Actually, it's even very fine for us adults to suffer from "olfactory burnout".
It happens to me... at some point I get to the point (every now and then) where I just don't want to smell all the "Wummser" and the clouds of incense, the amber bombs and the chocolate lungs anymore. When nothing works anymore, either NOTHING helps (so no scent, a cold withdrawal!) or the little sweet bunny from Kaloo.
I usually opt for the rabbit.
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