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Quiz on Perfume

20 questions · June 25, 2026

Below is the full Quizmo quiz devoted to the theme "Perfume": each question, its four options, the correct answer highlighted and, where available, its source. A chance to brush up on your general knowledge and then test what you know.

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Question 1

Easy

What body part are most perfumes designed to be applied to?

Source: Your skin's warmth helps perfume bloom and release its scent through the day.

Question 2

Easy

Which flower is one of the most expensive ingredients in perfumery?

Source: Jasmine is picked by hand at dawn, making it one of perfumery's costliest blooms.

Question 3

Easy

What is a perfume's strongest, longest-lasting form usually called?

Source: Parfum packs the highest oil concentration, so a tiny dab lasts all day.

Question 4

Easy

What does the term 'notes' refer to in a perfume?

Source: Like music, a fragrance unfolds in notes that you smell at different stages.

Question 5

Easy

Which scent layer is the first you smell when you spray perfume?

Source: Top notes hit first then evaporate fast, leaving the deeper scents behind.

Question 6

Easy

What sweet, resin-like material is widely used as a perfume base note?

Source: Warm and sweet, vanilla anchors countless perfumes as a comforting base.

Question 7

Easy

Which citrus fruit is a classic ingredient in eau de cologne?

Source: Bergamot, a fragrant Italian citrus, gives colognes their bright zesty lift.

Question 8

Easy

What is a master perfume creator commonly nicknamed?

Source: A 'nose' can identify and blend thousands of raw scent ingredients from memory.

Question 9

Easy

Which French city is famous as the historic capital of perfume?

Source: Grasse, on the Riviera, has grown perfume flowers since the 1600s.

Question 10

Easy

What woody, fragrant material is prized in perfumes despite over-harvesting?

Source: Creamy sandalwood is so coveted that wild trees became dangerously scarce.

Question 11

Medium

What does the 'eau' in 'eau de toilette' literally mean?

Source: 'Eau' is French for water, hinting at its lighter, diluted formula.

Question 12

Medium

Which iconic Chanel perfume is known simply by a number?

Source: Marilyn Monroe famously said she wore only a few drops of it to bed.

Question 13

Medium

Which method extracts scent oils by boiling petals with steam?

Source: Steam distillation lifts fragrant oils out of petals, a technique centuries old.

Question 14

Medium

Ambergris, a rare perfume fixative, originates from which animal?

Source: Ambergris forms in a whale's gut and washes ashore as costly 'floating gold'.

Question 15

Medium

Which dark, smoky resin is burned in churches and used in perfume?

Source: Frankincense has perfumed temples for millennia and still scents modern fragrances.

Question 16

Medium

What is the oily, fragrant heart of a rose flower called in perfumery?

Source: It takes thousands of roses to yield a single bottle of rose absolute.

Question 17

Medium

Which musky secretion from a wild cat once scented luxury perfumes?

Source: Civet paste was a perfume staple before synthetics replaced the cruel harvest.

Question 18

Hard

Which everyday spice is also a warm, prized note in many perfumes?

Source: Cardamom's sweet, peppery warmth shows up in both chai and fine fragrances.

Question 19

Hard

Oud is the prized resinous heartwood produced by trees of which genus?

Source: Oud forms only when an Aquilaria tree is infected by a mould, making the wood costlier by weight than gold.

Question 20

Hard

Which 18th-century scented water was first sold as a health tonic?

Source: Eau de Cologne was once drunk and dabbed on as a cure-all before becoming a scent.

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