How to make perfume from your home

Have you ever wanted to make your own perfume from your home? Well your prayers have been answered. This is a full tutorial on how to do just that.

   

Before you attempt making your own perfume, you should bear in mind that you would need the following ingredients

Materials Needed

Beaker;

Spray bottle;

Cotton wool pad;

Fragrances

Floral oil;

Woody Smells;

Spicy smells;  

Jasmine;

Gardenia;

Lily of the valley;

Mango, Strawberry or Pomegranate oils;

Tonka bean;

Today, I will be writing about how to make your own perfume from your home. I have made a selection of some of my favorite smells and I’m going build a perfume based on the florals. I will use a selection of fruity type smells, floral smells, a selection of some fresh smells, some woody smells, some spicy smells and some sweet smells. Some good perfumes may have a selection of many different smells to give it structure, and then blend.

I will start with the smells I like best, which would be the floral ones. Let’s start with jasmine first of all. On a little cotton wool pad, you build up a sample of the smell, and if you like it, you will convert it into a perfume oil, and if you don't like it, you can reject it and start all over. So select Jasmine, Gardenia, and lily of the valley. 

Below is a link to get your Gardenia oil

Below is a link to get your Jasmine oil



So we start of by putting one drop of each on to the same cotton wool pad. Some of these come out very fast, while some of these come out quite slowly, so what we have now is a combination of equal amounts of jasmine and gardenia. The smell is usually very good.

Then, add one drop of lily of the valley. Wave it around, and you will get a very floral smell. Then you add one of the other smells, just to break through the richness of those florals. You can use mango, pomegranate and strawberry.

Below is a link to get your Pomegranate oil

Pomegranate smells fresh, so when you smell your perfume, pomegranate would be the first impression that you get. Add it on the same cotton wool. When you smell, you will smell it in layers with pomegranate rushing up your nose screaming 'here I am', immediately after, then you smell the richer florals. The pomegranate alone has improved that enormously. You will still add a little more to it if you feel the smell is not too much. You can add spicy smells like clove, or anacid, and we've got sweet smells like vanilla, chocolate and Tonka bean. Personally, I go for Tonka bean which is almost a combination of chocolate and vanilla.

It’s not too chocolaty, and it’s not too vanillary, but it is sweet. Tonka bean is a base note. By base note, I mean this smell is going to hang around for a long time. It’s not going to evaporate off too quickly, and that gives depth and structure to the perfume. You can start to smell wool if you like what you smell. Now you mix 30 drops of each of the chosen oils into a little beaker, preferably one of 25 millimeters. 

This is done to create a blend, and then you dilute it. So you have your lovely selection of drops in there, but as it stands, that would be way too strong to go onto most skins, so you dilute it with perfumers’ alcohol. This will allow the smells to blend together, and to evaporate off your skin into the air, so everybody enjoys the perfume when you are wearing it. Just top it off to the 25 millimeter mark and give it a little shake. Before putting into the bottle, test it that the alcohol evaporates off, and you love the smell. It should give a floral, a little bit fruity and a little bit of Tonka bean smell. Some perfumes have up to 50 different smells in it, so this is not a complex perfume at all. But it is built using my favorite smells, so I personally like it, and I hope you do too. You can add other flavors, but if you like it, you can put it in a bottle. Mix it in the bottle, and test it by spraying it on your hand. That's how you make a perfume at home.

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