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Gift Baskets - Don't forget to add some perfume, cologne, or fragrance.
When you’re trying to figure out a gift basket design that will
cover all bases you should consider the occasion the gift is most suited
for and the person (or group) intended for. Most everyone enjoys chocolate
but that’s not true with caviar.
While food and wine gift baskets cover a larger taste
spectrum, products that enhance the feel of skin and the smell of the
body have been highly valued in every culture. With the discoveries
on new continents trade routes introduced spices to the old world the
range of scents became larger each year. At that time there was no perfume
manufacturing per say, but home made fragranced products were very popular.
Rose petals, mint, lavender, jasmine, lily - were added to oils to
persevere the fragrance, and eventually scent the oil. The oils were
then rubbed on gloves, on the skin, burned as incense, or added to soap.
All these uses become very popular and the gift baskets containing
such items were very well received.
With advances in chemistry in the late 19th century the modern perfume
as we know it went mainstream. Everything we use today is scented in
one form or another – from soap, detergents, and candles to the
most expensive perfumes – and the race for the next top seller
is on.
As the gift basket giving tradition was revived and actually brought
to unprecedented levels of popularity for the past half century, the
perfume manufacturers had to keep up with the trend and come up with
their own version of gift baskets – the gift sets. Gift sets contain
two or more products of the same line, bundled together at a reduced
price. Ideal as holiday gifts, gift baskets, Christmas
gifts, birthdays, and anniversary gifts.
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more about gifts-for-men
and fragrance categories …
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