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People who want to make perfumes, whether they’re for personal use or for marketing purposes need to have two key elements: a little knowledge, which at times may be replaced by a good nose) and imagination, accompanied by the will to try out something new. With enough time and patience, these two elements combined guarantee you’ll obtain the perfume you were looking for.

Let’s assume you don’t know anything about perfume making, chemistry or anything else that may help in the matter and start with the basics. First, you need to know that, every perfume needs:

• plant extracts (be they organic or non-organic), fragrance oils, essential oils or whatever you may want to use for your perfume; the more you know about them and their characteristics, the more you’ll be able to use them faster and more efficient to get your dream perfume, so get ready to google your way to every essence you can think of; if you don’t know all that much about essences, go to any perfumery, read the ingredients written on your favorite perfume’s bottle or anything that may help you enrich that plant extracts list; resourcefulness will most definitely help in this matter;
• pure grain alcohol (vodka), to help with the preservation, dilution and application of the perfume;
• water – also used for dilution of the perfume; specialists argue that it’s better to have fresh water, from a mountain spring for instance, rather than regular water because the purer it is, the better; another hint would be to use cold water when adding it to the mixture.

Next comes the essence lesson. You should know that there are three types of essences, which will determine the characteristics of your perfume in time because some evaporate sooner than others, some are stronger and some, more discreet. Here are the three types of essences:

• base notes – which last the longest; they are usually added to the mixture first and left, either by themselves or with other notes to blend and form a homogenous mixture;
• middle notes – also with a long lasting smell, but not as much as the base notes; they’re added after the base notes in the mixture;
• top notes – these are the most responsible ingredients for the fragrance of the perfume when it is applied, while also the first ones to evaporate; that’s one of the reasons they’re added lastly to the perfume.

As a bonus, you can also add binding ingredients to the perfume to add to the homogeneity of the mixture and of the fragrance.

Knowing all of this, what you need now is a list of ingredients. You should take each one of them and either surf the net for more information or go to the nearest store and buy them or check them out on the spot, if possible, as they are the most common perfume ingredients and should be available in just about any store:

• base notes – sandal wood, vanilla, cinnamon, mosses, lichens, ferns;
• middle notes - – lemongrass, geranium, neroli, ylang-ylang;
• top notes – orchid, rose, bergamot, lavender, lemon, lime.

Last, but certainly not the least, you need a perfume bottle if you want to really impress everybody with your new discovery. Depending on whether you’re going to market your perfume or not, the standards for the bottle will be set higher or lower. In any case, your perfume deserves a worthy “package”. So, start thinking of a name for it and try to find a design to suit both the name and the characteristics of your perfume, another good time to let your imagination go wild. With this last step taken, you should feel proud of yourself because you just gave birth to another perfume! Congratulations!