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Home > How Perfume Is Created
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Here are your simple directions to how perfume is created.
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Making Perfume
Using Our Perfume Accords and kits
Think about
what sort of perfume you want to make, our accords are especially blended to represent
the perfume groups like citrus, floral, oriental.
Use a perfume
smelling strip to collect a tiny amount of aroma accord to smell.
If you don’t have
smell strips use cotton swabs.
Choose what
other aroma additives you want to go with your accord, using the notes, essential oils or aroma chemicals also on a smelling strip.
Then smell them
all together.
This will help
you decide what aromas you want to use in your perfume.
Once you have
found the aroma combinations you like start adding them together
ONE DROP AT A TIME…
When you reach
the aroma you want, slowly add perfume alcohol until you reach the strength you
want.
If you are you
are making perfume to fragrance body products or candles, you will not be using
perfume alcohol.
Write it down.
So you can make it again. Start your perfume journal.
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Making Perfume Using Aroma Chemicals
These are not blends, fragrance oils
or finished perfumes.
Aroma Chemicals are manufactured
Individual aromas. They are the bits and pieces of smells. Like the spice in
carnation.
Think about
what sort of perfume you want to make. Read about the perfume families, on how
perfumes are grouped page.
This is a
formula suggestion but not carved in stone.
Your perfume can be
made of
25% top notes
25 to 40 % middle
notes
And the rest base
notes.
This simple
formula will help your perfume last longer on the skin.
Use a perfume
smelling strip to collect a tiny amount of aroma chemical to smell.
If you don’t
have smell strips use cotton swabs.
Choose what
other aroma additives you want, using the notes and essential oils also on a
smelling strip.
Then smell them
all together.
This will help
you decide what aromas you want to use in your perfume.
Once you have
found the aroma combinations you like start adding them together
ONE DROP AT A TIME…
When you reach
the aroma you want, slowly add perfume alcohol until you reach the strength you
want.
If you are you
are making perfume to fragrance body products or candles, you will not be using
perfume alcohol.
Write it down.
So you can make it again. Start your perfume journal.
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Creating a perfume can be a lot like cooking. Think of your perfume “accord” as being the meat in a pot roast dish. Think of the aroma additives (aroma chems, essential oils and building blocks) being your carrots, potatoes and onions adding flavor and zing. Try not to overpower the accord base. Like cooking adding to much pepper will ruin the pot. Adding more carrots than meat will make it a carrot stew.
Some aroma additives are so strong only trace amounts are necessary. Others virtually have no scent at all until they are blended with other aromas. This is another reason you want to try the additives in small amounts.
Use the perfume smelling strips. This is how all professional perfumers study the aromas and understand how they will smell together. Gather all the smelling the strips together in one hand wave then under your nose. You can also gage how much aroma to use with this method. Keep notes of how they smell and how long they last on the strips.
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