Perfume you make yourself is free from synthetic chemicals and is fully customized to your personal taste. Perfume consists of a mixture of essential and base oils, together with alcohol and water.
You will need to use jojoba or sweet almond oil, ethanol, distilled water, essential oils, base note essentials, middle note essentials, top note essentials, and bridge notes. Combining each of these ingredients in differing amounts can help you create your own unique fragrance.
The essential oils that you use form the basis of your perfume. These essentials are called the "notes" of the perfume.
The base notes are the part of the fragrance that lasts the longest on your skin. The middle notes evaporate a little more quickly and the top notes are the most volatile and disperse first.
Bridge notes have intermediate evaporation rates and serve to tie a scent together. Sometimes other substances are added to a perfume, such as sea salt, black pepper, camphor, and vetiver.
Since the essentials evaporate at different rates, the way a perfume smells changes over time as you wear it. Base notes include cedar wood, cinnamon, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, moss, lichen, and fern.
Middle notes include clove, geranium, lemongrass, neroli, nutmeg, and ylang-ylang. The top notes consist of bergamot, jasmine, lavender, lemon, lime, neroli, orchid, and rose.
The bridges are vanilla and lavender. The order in which you mix your ingredients is important, since it will affect the scent.
If you change the procedure, record what you did in case you want to do it again. It takes experimentation to get the scent you want, but you can get started in the right direction by keeping in mind the type of smell associated with essential oils.
Earthy smells are found in patchouli and vetiver, while hits of the ocean are found in sea salt.
Floral accents are made with geranium, jasmine, neroli, rose, violet, or ylang-ylang.
Fruity scents are made with bergamot, grapefruit, lemon, lemongrass, lime, mandarin, or orange, while herbal hints are found in angelica, basil, chamomile, clary sage, lavender, peppermint, and rosemary. You can get a spicy smell with black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, coriander, ginger, juniper, and nutmeg, or woodsy accents with cassia, cedar, cypress, pine, or sandalwood.
To make your fragrance, add the jojoba or sweet almond oil to the bottle and then add the essentials in the following order: base notes, middle notes, and finally top notes. You can add a couple of drops of bridge notes, if you want, before adding the ethanol.
Shake the bottle for a couple of minutes then let it sit for 48 hours to 6 weeks. The scent will change over time, becoming strongest around 6 weeks.
When the scent is where you want it to be, add 2 tablespoons of spring water to the perfume. Shake the bottle to mix the liquid, then filter it through a coffee filter and pour it into its final bottle.
Ideally, this will be a dark bottle with minimal airspace, since light and exposure to air degrade many essential oils. Label your creation and write down how you made it, in case you want to duplicate it.
If the perfume is too strong, you can dilute it with more water. If you want your perfume to retain its scent longer, add a tablespoon of glycerin to the perfume mixture.
Citrus based fragrances usually disappear faster while musks and woody based fragrances tend to last longer because these oils evaporate slower. Preserve the potency of your fragrances by storing them in cool dark places away from direct sunlight.
Fragrance will last longer on skin that is well-moisturized, because oils on the skin trap the fragrance notes and make them last longer. Fragrance will last longer on skin that is well-moisturized, because oils on the skin trap the fragrance notes and make them last longer.
When you apply the fragrance, concentrate on pulse points; which are areas where the veins are close to skin surface and you feel your circulation, including your wrists, neck, between your breasts and even behind knees. Do not rub wrists together after application as it breaks down the oils.
Author Resource:-
Tom Selwick is a dental engineer and marketing specialist with over fifteen years of expertise. With his expertise in the dental technology fields, he has written hundreds of articles about blister packaging and industry tech standards.
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