Making Your Own Perfume – Simple Guide For Beginners

There are no schools that teach the art of perfume making. Perhaps there ought to be because this is an ancient art that once all women knew. Before perfume making became a big commercial operation backed by high tech laboratories and expensive marketing departments women made their own perfumes at home. There is no reason why you can’t recapture that lost art.

Here is your own little perfume making school. The first lesson is learn to use your nose. We all go about with our noses closed or switched to auto pilot. The toast is burning is about as much we allow our noses to tell us. But there is much more that a nose can do if we let it.

Take some time to smell things. Your friends will think you have gone mad but never mind. Smell fruits in the market. Smell flowers as you walk through the park. Walk in woods. Walk on the sea shore.

There was a time when we used our noses to tell us about the world. Now we live far more visual lives. We learn to follow visual signs. Our ancestors found their way to the baker’s shop by the smell. You can even distinguish people by their smell.

A lot of the time we are responding to smells unconsciously. Supermarkets like to waft new baked bread smell around because it makes us buy things. At Christmastime shops often use spicey smells to put us in a festive mood. Without knowing it we are attracted to pur partners by the smell of their sex pheromones. Armotherapists use smell to help lift depression.

To make perfume you need to become aware of what you are smelling. You need to understand the subtle effects of smell on your psychological state. So that was lesson one of the perfume school.

Lesson two of the perfume school relates to the equipment you need apart from an educated nose. This is by far the simplest part. All you need are glass containers such as bowls and some glass jars for mixing your perfumes. Glass is best because it does not react with the essentials oils in perfume.

Essential oils are what we smell in a perfume. They are volatile plant oils. They are extracted from flowers, leaves, seeds, fruit and twigs. You can do this youirself or you can buy them ready made. They come in small, dark glass bottles. The glass is dark to stop the essential oils reacting with light.

You will find essential oils in health food stores and specialist shops that stock perfume ingredients. If you have no local supplier look on line. There are a number of retailers on the internet.

Essential oils are not expensive because you only need small quantities. A few drops will be enough in most cases. The bottle ususally have a dropper in the top. If not get a small pipette. This is a glass tube with a bulb at one end. You draw up a small amount of the essential oil and drop it into your perfume mixture.

Lesson three of this perfume school involves putting that trained and sensitive nose to work. Your aim is to blend the essential oils into a pleasing perfume. That means adding some top notes, some middle notes and some base notes. It’s like composing a piece of music. You want a harmonious composition of essential oils to make the perfect perfume.

About the Author

Abhishek is a Perfume Making expert and he has got some great Perfume Making Secrets up his sleeves! Download his FREE 91 Pages Ebook, “Perfumes ! Understanding, Buying And Making Perfumes” from his website http://www.Fun-Galore.com/155/index.htm . Only limited Free Copies available.

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