how to do make your own fruit perfume?

Okay I have a science fair project coming up and I really need a good recipe to make your own fruit perfume. I need to test which fruit odor will last the longuest . Also I will try a watermelon, cherry, banana, blueberry and strawberry flavors. Each flavor in different spray bottles. Please give me good recipes. Thanks so much xoxo

OOh! We did this in chemistry! We mixed esters and made new fragrances! Unfortunately you can’t just buy esters and make smells…

You can’t use fruits (like squeeze them and juice them) because you they won’t have a long shelf life. Since fruits expire relatively quickly, the perfume will change scent very frequently as the sugars oxidize.

You could (as a long shot) go to a bakery or grocery store and look for artificial flavorings. They should have strawberry, cherry etc. If you add these to a base – this website suggests vodka http://www.essortment.com/all/perfumemakehow_rdpm.htm. You might end up with a good perfume.

I’m going to be completely honest here. Your idea is great, but fruity fragrances are difficult to manufacture without using artificial flavors. They’re also difficult because most fleshy fruits (strawberries) don’t contain the oils that are generally used in fragrances. If you were to go with oranges, the peel can be pressed to make an oil. You could then add this oil to a base (olive oil, canola oil) and have a fragrance. So, consider doing citrusy perfumes like orange, lemon, lime or grapefruit (anything with a peel).

You could use a distillation apparatus to extract the fragrant oils from plants or flowers. You could take leaves from a blueberry plant. There are some lichens that smell like vanilla (you could use those!). You could use rose petals or any flower petal. You can use pine needles. You could probably even stick a chicken bone in the distillation thing and make chicken scented perfume. Here’s sites on distillation procedures:

http://www.naturesgift.com/extraction.htm

http://www.deancoleman.com/whatareoils.htm

http://www.edenlabs.org/graphics/mushroomcap.jpg – you heat up your leaves and flowers in the bottle to the left and the oils are released as steam and condense in that hose and they will drip down to the bottle on the right.

If you don’t have the patience to play around with distillation apparatuses you can purchase pure essential oils from a health/hippy store and blend them to make your own unique fragrances. You only use a drop of the essential oil and add it to a non scented base (olive oil or canola oil). You need to use olive/canola oil because you can’t just add water. Water and oils don’t mix. If you drop essential oils in a container of water, the oils will just stick together in a bubble and they won’t mix with the water.

I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be cynical and kill your idea. I’ve tried to provide you with alternatives. You’ve just picked the most difficult thing. This is why “cherry” or “watermelon” fragrances/perfumes are so inconsistent in how they smell. The fragrance is purely manufactured by using chemicals and unless you have open access to esters and chemicals, then you likely won’t have success in making fruity smells.

Before you start distilling pine needles, you probably should read a guide like this: http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/therapies/essentia02.htm . Turpentine is something that comes from pine needles and if you were to cover your body in pine needle oil, you could overdose and kill yourself (or just sniff a lot of it and get a massive head ache). Birch bark is a topical anesthetic, so if you were to dump birch bark oil on your hand, it would be temporarily numbed. You really need to respect oils and understand how they can affect you. Even oils like eucalyptus can be toxic in large doses, so young infants can be susceptible to this – this is why you don’t bathe babies in pure eucalyptus oils. You should realize that oils not only smell, but they can be used for their beneficial effects on the human body. …Actually, researching essential oils and making your own could be a very good science fair concept.

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