A popular women’s and men’s item is wonderful, fragrant perfume or cologne. Using men’s colognes or women’s perfumes is a normal behavior for many men and women, and they put it on regularly to increase their fragrant call to others they may encounter. The fragrance companies are continually introducing innovative scents, many of which rapidly reach their peak in popularity, only to become yesterday’s fragrance as they are supplanted by the freshest, newest and greatest aromas.

Fragrances fit into one of five scent groupings: floral, Oriental, wood, clean and fougere. So how are fragrances categorized and classified? Michael Edwards, a fragrance industry consultant, originated a diagram known as the fragrance wheel. The wheel places the basic fragrances into groups. Click here to see my complete article and learn more.