The Arab Association for Perfumes, the representative of the International Association for Perfumes in the Middle East, announced the first summit for perfumes that the Middle East witness that will be held in Dubai in the 26th and 27th of September. Shahrazard Haidar, the president of the Arab Association for Perfumes council, announced that in a press conference that a lot perfume manufacturing leaders of the region attended. The summit is organized under the "bridge towards creativity" slogan that targets to combine between the international and regional companies in perfume making under one umbrella and to start an international dialogue to give the space for exchanging ideas between the perfume manufacturers regionally and internationally as will as providing a golden chance to look over the perfume manufacturing in the Middle East and highlight the Eastern Authentic Perfumes in the Middle East region. The perfume market in the Middle East has big potentials that effectively contribute in the development of this sector with the progressive attention from the youth to trends and the excellent presence and increase in spending in perfumes sectors, where a survey showed that the perfume market size in the Middle East would reach to 10 trillion dollars in 2015. Shahrazad Haidar said that the perfumes market wasn't negatively affected from the financial crisis despite the economic recession in the region, while the consumption of perfumes for an individual in the region is considered to be one of the highest rates in the world with around 380 dollars per individual. The Middle East summit for perfumes is organized in coincide with the huge development of the perfume manufacturing internationally and regionally, and it is expected that the international market size will increase, where it reached 17 trillion American dollars in 2010, and it will reach around 33.5 trillion dollars in 2015. The manufacturing specialists anticipate that the perfume manufacturing will witness a notable development in the next five years in the Middle East worth around 3.5 trillion dollars, proving itself to be one of the fastest developing sectors globally. The Eastern perfumes in considered to be an important product that influence the development of the international perfume markets where it proved its existence in this important sector because of its unique combination between the traditional Arab perfumes and the well known international brands.
