What is eau de toilette?

Question

Every perfume bottle has written this on it. Does anyone know the exact meaning of it. Since we apply it on our clothes...what's that toilette?

Answer 1

Basically a watered down version of the more expensive perfume.

Below is a more scientific explanation of the perfume range:

What's the difference between eau de toilette and eau de parfum?

Most perfumes are complex combinations of natural materials, such as essential oils from plants, and synthetic products that increase the lasting power and heighten the smell. Alcohol is used as a liquid base for perfume, and the ratio of alcohol to scented perfume concentrates determines what the final concoction is labeled.

From highest concentration to least, the different forms of perfume are:


Perfume, also called extract or extrait perfume, can include 15-40% perfume concentrates. This is the purest form of scented product and is the most expensive as a result.

Eau de parfum contains about 7-15% perfume concentrates. This is the most popular and common form of perfume. It provides a long-lasting fragrance and generally doesn't cost as much as extract perfume.

Eau de toilette has around 1-6% perfume concentrates. This makes for a light scent that doesn't linger as long as the more intense versions. It was originally intended to be a refreshing body splash to help people wake up in the morning.

Eau de cologne is sometimes used interchangeably with the term eau de toilette. However, the concoction began as the name of a light, fresh fragrance mixed with citrus oils and was made popular by Napoleon. Some perfumers today have a version of this called eau fraiche.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Not every perfume bottle will have it, it's just that there are different intensities for fragrances, having different percentages of aromatic compounds. The greater the compounds, the more intense and concentrated - and the longer lasting - the fragrance will be.

The greater the compounds, also the more expensive the fragrance is and you also need less of it.

Perfume extract: 20%-40% aromatic compounds
Eau de parfum: 10-30% aromatic compounds
Eau de toilette: 5-20% aromatic compounds
Eau de cologne: 2-3% aromatic compounds

Cologne is the lightest, and has the most alcohol solvent, while perfume is the opposite.

Why it's French is because the the French are expert 'noses' (people who create perfumes). They create exquisite perfumes, not because they just thought they should, but because they were notorious non-bathers (something like once a month, and that was for the wealthy).

To mask the smell, they used to douse themselves - as well as their elaborate wigs - with 'toilet water' (for their toilet, as in their cleaning preparations), or 'eau de toilette.'

Hope that helps :)

Answer 3

Literally translated it means 'wash water' and is a watered down version of the perfume of the same name. Check your labels again. Some will say 'parfume' or perfume while others will say 'eau de toilette'. The perfume is stronger, requires less of it to use, and lasts longer than eau de toilette. It's also more expensive.
Also, consider this~ your 'eau de toilette' may be a part of your 'personal toilette' along with soaps, deodorants, razors~ anything you would use for personal hygiene and grooming.
Au revoir!

Answer 4

It is the percent of perfume oil by volume in a perfume:

Perfume extract: 20%-40% aromatic compounds
Eau de parfum: 10-30% aromatic compounds
Eau de toilette: 5-20% aromatic compounds
Eau de cologne: 2-3% aromatic compounds

As the percentage of aromatic compounds decreases, the intensity and longevity of the scent decrease. It should be noted that different perfumeries or perfume houses assign different amounts of oils to each of their perfumes. As such, although the oil concentration of a perfume in eau de parfum (EDP) dilution will necessarily be higher than the same perfume in eau de toilette (EDT) form, the same trends may not necessarily apply to different perfume compositions much less across different perfume houses.

Answer 5

eau de toliette, is the watered down version of perfume, it smells the same, but cheaper and not as strong. For clothes and such its perfect, for your skin, since toilette means water, you should wear the perfume since you sweat and it wears off to a degree.

Answer 6

It's french it's just the intensity of the perfume. Eau De Toilette is the most common. It isn't the most potent that would parfume but it's just french that's all.

Answer 7

All I know is that it should be in the tiolet.I smelled it when I was 6 years old and one whif I was sneezing like crazy.I don't really like it and would never apply that stuff to my clothing.It sounds french and should be banned.

Answer 8

Its cologne / perfume falls under toiletories list.

Answer 9

diluted form of perfume

Answer 10

an expensive scent cut with a ton of alcohol and sold for less.