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How to make perfume
Whether it’s for personal / family
purposes, marketing purposes or intended as a gift for some
friends or family, perfume making is in fact an easy task
that you can do by yourself or with others. Creating
something personal, of good taste and really useful such as
perfume is a truly great thing, not only because it teaches
you a couple of new things, but also because it’s bound to
boost your confidence, not to mention maybe the most
important aspect… having fun.
If you try to google your way to some
perfume making knowledge, you’ll notice you have a lot to
choose from, just because there are plenty of ways and
different recipes to try. The most important thing is for
you to know what you’d like to obtain:
- What type of perfume
would you like to make? (eau de cologne, perfume
concentrates, maybe even after-shaves or whatever crosses
your mind)
- What would you like
the perfume to smell like? (soft / strong smell, sweet /
manly odor / unisex, long lasting or not, and so on and so
forth)
Depending on your answers to the
previous questions, you should make out a list of
ingredients. When compiling this list, you should have in
mind the characteristics of the ingredients you’d like to
add to your recipe. If you’ve already got a recipe to
follow, that means you won’t bother experimenting and giving
much thought to the ingredients you should add, maybe
slightly adjust the quantities to obtain a more personalized
perfume, but if you haven’t got your ingredients list yet,
here are a couple of things you should know.
The first rule of perfume making is
that you should experiment as much as you can. It’s a fact
that some of the greatest perfumes were created because
somebody said something like… “and what if I put these two
together?”. Perfume making an art and that’s why imagination
and a great sense of smell can overcome a lack of experience
or knowledge.
The second most important thing is that
there are 3 key ingredients to a perfume recipe: essential
oils (extracts from various plants, organic or non-organic,
that combined, give you the smell of your perfume), pure
grain alcohol and water.
Another thing you should know about
oils, plant extracts is that there are 3 different types of
oils which will ultimately influence the smell of your
perfume in time. The base notes will be the scent that will
stay the longest on your skin and that is why it is usually
added first in the mixture. The middle notes will also
influence the smell of the perfume for a pretty long time,
although not as long as the base notes, while the top notes
will give the perfume its specific scent when just applied.
The top notes will be added to the mixture after the middle
notes and may be followed by some other substance to bridge
the scents.
It is very important that you mix the
extracts in the given order and that you use a sufficient
quantity of each type, usually the same for all three.
Last, but not least, here’s a list of
the most easily found oils that may lead you to your dream
perfume:
- Base notes – sandal wood, vanilla,
cinnamon, mosses, lichens, ferns;
- Middle notes – lemongrass, geranium, neroli, ylang-ylang;
- Top notes –
orchid, rose, bergamot, lavender, lemon, lime.
One more thought to take into
consideration above all… have fun!
Sincerely,
ArtofMakingPerfume.com
P.S. "The Art of Making Perfume" is perfect for learning and making all kinds of perfumes.
P.S.S. Remember you have no risk whatsoever as you have 90 days to ask for a refund if you find out that this book is not for you.
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