Defference b/w Eau de Parfum, Eau de Toilette, Eau de Cologne e.t.c

July 21, 2006 at 7:04 am (Misc Info)

It’s funny because many people have asked me this question that sometime its written eau de parfum, sometimes eau de toilette, is there any difference??? and although I know the answer I am confused how to answer them.

Ill try again to explain the difference:First we need to know about the ingredients of perfume, generally there are two ingredients “alcohol (ethyl alcohol )” and “essential oil (natural or synthetic which carries the actual fragrance)”.

In every perfume the percentage of essential oil and alcohol is different and these “tags” basically depend upon the percentage of essential oil used:

Perfume has 22% of essential oils and 78% alcohol (approx). 

Eau de Parfum (EDP) comes next with between 15 and 22% essential oils.

Followed by Eau de Toilette (EDT) with 8 to 15% oils.

The weaker Eau de Cologne has just 4% essential oils.

Last but not the least Eau Fraiche with 1 to 3% essential oils, is the lightest dilution of fragrance.

This percentage also dictates the price of a perfume i.e. more essential oil more expensive the perfume is but then again it also depends upon the quality of essential oil.

I hope this answers the question 😉