Eau de Toilette — what is it?
Eau de Toilette has nothing to do with the potty or loo (toilets), as I thought the first time I heard the words as a child. :-D It is the name of a category of perfume that in strength of scent lies just below Eau de Parfum.
"Eau" in French means "water" and, by extension, something liquid or water-like. I should clear up the word "toilette." It is pronounced "twa-let." French people use it to speak of the routine actions one does to prepare for appearing before others, for going out for the day or night. That activity is doing one's toilette. Washing up, dressing, applying deodorant, doing one's hair, make-up, polishing shoes, putting on cuff links or jewelry and so on...getting ready. That's a regimen due respect by the French and it has its own word, "la [the] toilette." The perfume referred to "eau de toilette" is most likely a strength usual in daily perfuming.
Eau de Parfum, a step stronger than eau de toilette, is itself below Parfum (French for perfume), the costliest and most intensely packed with essences of all the dilutions perfumers make. My eau de parfum would in fact qualify as full-fledged perfume, due to its percentage of perfume oils to the base but I have left myself an an even stronger perfume category (perfume itself) to fill someday, should I wish to.
Eau de Toilette, then, is less strong than eau de parfum and stronger than eau de cologne. The Eau de Toilette I make is satisfyingly potent but light enough to be applied in the broader application of a spray.
Please do see the perfume logos and fragrance descriptions on another tab here. We recommend that if you are unfamliar with the perfumes, you get a perfume sample kit and try each, giving enough time for the completely natural plant essences to blend with your body chemistry. The samples are available on the Eau de Parfums and Perfume Oils pages.
Totally natural perfumes can pick you up, send your imagination places lovely, make you feel beautiful. A dab doesn't always do it. You may, like me, get the urge to spray yourself more lavishly. Enter, Eau de Toilette!
These bottles look so pretty on your dresser but what's even better is to hold them in your hand and know you've got that much perfume pleasure ahead of you.
My formulating batch of Eau de Toilette was Beach House, a favorite of mine. For the last three months, I've been spraying myself most days pretty indulgently from my 6-oz. bottle. I mean spray, spray, spray, spray... body, clothes... and my bottle still has more than half left. Nice.
You can also use Eau de Toilette to lightly spray your pillow case or other linens or give a spray into the air for atmostphere.
Life has its special pleasures and this is one I want to share with you!
Evan
The perfume logos shown here are Eau de Parfum or Eau de Cologne labels but you can see the artwork intended to convey a message about each fragrance.
Beach House Perfume is one of my own favorites. It's so happy and with many subtle scents cnveying the impression of abundant summer garden by the seaside.
You lay down your book, close your eyes and inhale the warm, summer scents...ocean, sand, flowers, suntan lotion. Beach House™ perfume brings you a glorious day at the beach with its sunny, fruity, floral fragrance. You can almost hear the waves lapping.
Bouquet de Rêves (Bouquet of Dreams) - When formulating this aromatherapy perfume, I decided to include in it oil of each kind of plant or plant part from which essential oils may be derived: seeds, wood or bark, flowers, moss, leaves, fruits, rinds, needles, roots, resins. I intended to express my awe of the diversity and the co-existence of nature. There is an appreciative thought in this perfume of harmony and larger purpose. Bouquet de Rêves may share with you the calm yet alert and creative qualities which its ingredients have been found to possess. This is a bouquet of dreams. It's a joyous, ultra-feminine scent... floral, spicy, sensual and sophisticated. Pronounce this something like "boo-kay deuh rhev" and you will feel oh-so French!
Embrace is floral, fruity and a bit woody. This aromatherapy perfume will delight you with the quirky way it transforms itself to match you personally (it smells subtly different on people). With some extremely rare, precious essential oils, Embrace aromatherapy perfume is always elegant and so feminine!
Esprit de Girl is a predominantly floral perfume, ethereal, delicate, no doubt about it ultra-feminine, with just the right touch of complimentary deeper tones supporting it. It contains pure floral essences that one may have encountered only by breathing in the actual flowers, but, my guess is, not until now in a perfume. When you smell Esprit de Girl, you're inhaling flowers. It’s a happy, girlish, endearing scent.
Lady of the Flowers, fresh flowers amidst the sensuality of vanilla and other rare essences. An aromatherapy scent that is sublimely happy, feminine and and subtly, deliciously sensual.
Odalisque is a very sexy, floral scent with spicy, vanilla undertones. What is an "Odalisque"? It is the name of the kind of painting which depicts a woman reclining and looking inviting. Our Odalisque aromatherapy perfume will leave you feeling relaxed and inviting too.
Rose Enchantment - There is something deeply moving about roses in aromatherapy perfume. Capturing the scent of a rose in full bloom was a challenge I undertook with near-religious devotion to the true nature of this glorious flower. Pure rose essences do not mirror the exact chemical balance in most aromatherapy perfumes, as exists in a rose on the stem. Some aromatherapy perfumes miss the fruitier, high "notes" that tend to be lessened during the extraction process. To create the perfect Rose aromatherapy perfume, I selected the most beautiful, true, pure rose essences. Then I amplified and filled in the scent with other pure essential oils. We hope you fall in love with this aromatherapy perfume as we have.
Tapestry is exotic, floral, musky. One aromatherapy perfume ingredient, a very rare, precious essence from India, we are told is used as both an aphrodisiac and in doing yoga. This aromatherapy Perfume transports you to castles, caravans and other places and times. Bon voyage!
Tres Jolie - This aromatherapy perfume is so very pretty, so sweet, fresh, warm, that I call it Tres Jolie - Very Pretty. For interest, you pronounce that - as close as I can duplicate the French sound with letters - "trhay jzhoe-lee," However we end up saying it, it’s the scent and feeling it lends that count. I am wild for this aromatherapy perfume.
YaYa - A scrumptious, fruity scent, with hints of flowers and spice ...so light-hearted and fun!