What happens when someone opens a container of perfume?

Answer 1

When you open a bottle of perfume, the liquid will begin to vaporize at room temperature, and the scent will spread through the air. The smell of perfume reaches other parts of the room because gases have a high rate of diffusion. A few molecules of perfume are enough to let you detect the smell.

Answer 2

Nothing really it just sits there and stays the same no matter what but if you spill it, it will smell up your room.

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Perfume is created to evaporate in certain conditions leaving a fine compound that contains the actual smell (perfume). Leaving the top off a bottle will allow evaporation and weakening of the scent itself.

Answer 3

it's scent is a gas so it will fill up the room its in with smell and it will eventually evaporate. it's scent is a gas so it will fill up the room its in with smell and it will eventually evaporate.

Answer 4

The volatile components would evaporate. (They do anyway, but with the top on, they can't go anywhere and quickly reach equilibrium).

The whole point of perfume is to put volatile components into the air so they can be detected by other people's noses, but not all components of a perfume are equally volatile. So if the top is left off for a long time, the overall proportions of the different "smells" that make up the perfume will change, which will result in the smell of the perfume itself changing. This may make the perfume more "musky" or more "woody" or more "floral" depending on exactly what's in it.

Answer 5

It explodes in a puff of scent 100 x the original power, you can die from the exposure to the scent

Answer 6

it smells