Fragrance manufacturers don't need to declare what goes into your perfume so you can unknowingly be applying animal products on to your skin that are very commonly used in perfumery!

Examples include:

Ambergris: Originates from sperm whale digestive secretions. In perfumery its used as a fixative to make perfumes last longer.  It has a sweet, musky odour with
strong notes of wood, moss and amber.

Castoreum: Is extracted from the castor sacs of beavers. Beavers were caught and killed for this perfume extract, which has a
musky, sweet, leathery scent evocative of fine leather upholstery in classic
leather-themed perfumes.  It also adds a spicy, ambery note as well as providing fixation.

Civet: An African cat-like animal, a Civet’s excretions are collected for use in perfumery to create a musky, velvety, floral, sweet scent.

Musk: Taken from a male musk deer, the odour is obtained from glands.  It imparts a complex
yet sweet, aromatic odour and brings a ‘radiance’ to the scent. 

Honey: Some perfumes contain beeswax or honey, its used to bring a roundness to fruity or floral compositions.

Hyraceum: Derived from the dried excretion of the rock
hyrax, a mammal that closely resembles a large guinea pig.  It gives a ‘dirty’ note to perfumes that are too sweet or too fresh and is a fixative.

Many animal derived ingredients
have synthetic and plant derived alternatives but many companies still continue to use the animal derived ingredients.  While
synthetics may be able to match the aroma of animal materials they can’t replicate the complexity, the odour profile and the way these ingredients function within a formula or the effect they give to the end product.  The complex odour profile and effects cannot
be duplicated in a lab.  Hence, many large fragrance houses do not change their formulas.

All of our products are completely free of animal derived ingredients.  Not
only this but we also don’t use any animal derived by-products in our formulations either.

Asolutely, we're adamantly against all foms of animal cruelty.

They can be applied on your wrists, neck, behind ears. All our fragrances are perfectly safe to apply onto skin.

Some of the darker ouds may leave a tint on the skin but just rub it in and it will dissapear.

Because our fragrance oils are much more concentrated they will last much longer than EDP, EDT and cologne sprays.

On skin you can expect the fragrance longevity to be about a day or two.

If the scent is applied onto inconspicous areas of clothing (such as the inner sleeve of inside the collar) then you can expect the scent to last from a few days to a few weeks!