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Anyone interested in perfumery dreams of finding out how perfumes are actually created. We know little about perfume production, and for the most part, these are marketing myths, vague interviews and press releases. The industry has been closed since its inception due to fears of industrial espionage, and technological and creative processes are no less classified than the production of nuclear missiles. But the world is changing, and even the conservative perfume industry is ready to let the curious nose of journalists into the holy of holies - workshops and laboratories. Not long ago, I was lucky enough to visit the Spanish company Eurofragance. It is a compounding enterprise. In other words, the company creates fragrances for perfumes, cosmetics, household chemicals and sells them to customers in the form of a concentrate, which is then added to a soap base, washing powder, candles or perfume. Eurofragance has been involved in compounding for about thirty years. Around that time, in