Synergy Between Top and Bottom Notes

[Guest guest]

Hello to those of you who missed my introduction yesterday.

My question for today:

What synergy have you noticed between top notes and bottom notes?

I was thinking, although top notes dissipate long before base notes, they seem

capable of changing the fragrance of a bottom note for its entire duration. My

favorite example is how galbanum combines with labdanum. Is this a valid

observation? What other top notes do you think have a long-lasting effect on

any particular base?

[Guest guest]

I usually aim for top and middle notes that are similar...that way you

have more consistency in the scent as the top notes fade.

But ingredients do also combine and create new notes that may be quite

different from the original components.

Galbanum is a particularly interesting oil in it's effect on others.

Ambrosia

http://www.perfumebynature.com.au

[Guest guest]

Yes, although galbanum is classified as a top note because it does, indeed,

present itself early and strongly, it is so permeating as to impart its scent to

a perfume all the way down to the base, in my opinion.

I agree that it seems prudent to choose well-matched top and bottom notes, but

as you say, there is some magic at work when seemingly incongruent notes are

combined to form whole new scents.

Although I don't know chemistry very well, in my mind I can imagine the

electrons in the outer valences forming new connections with one another with

who-knows-what result.

Thanks Ambrosia.

Anyone else have an opinion on what top and bottom notes form synergistic

combinations?