How to Make Perfume Start to Finish

[Music] [Music] everyone welcome back to another video my name is Peter and this is going to be a how to make perfume basics video I'm just going to share with sources for learning and I'll give you a simple formula to make it home that will smell like a real perfume and get you started on making your own if that's what you're interested in doing which I guess is why you're watching this video a good place to start for most people will be Monday after Monday after tell is a known for natural perfumery and she had us a number of books which do include formulas and teaching guides basically on how to make perfume at home there like I say basically natural perfumes quite minimalistic but a good starting point perfect beginners to understand how to start making their own fragrances and get a little bit of knowledge in in perfume creation and the materials used when they have to tell is a good source so this is the book that I've got specifically myself but like I say she has a number of books check out her website as well in the description below I will list one of the recipes within that book if you want to follow one of my deaf tells recipes I'll leave it in the description below for you and another book I wanna mention is a diary of a nose by Jean Claude Helena now in the back of this there is a few pages which gives you some basic ideas of different Accords for instance a paracord pineapple accord and different types of apple green apple red apple etc and so that's a useful book for the Accords in the back there and then the more serious books for their you know more geeky kind of serious people that are really incident sensing chemistry the molecular world of odors this one's quite expensive and goes into a lot of detail it's a lot chemistry based really things that most people really don't need to know unless you're really super into chemistry and science and understanding more that side of it technical side of it there is some interesting information in here about specific perfumes and percentages of certain materials that they used but for most people it probably won't be of interest like I say unless you've got an extended knowledge of chemistry or your you really want to understand more than the scientific part of perfumery rather than experiencial with the nose and with feeling and another book that's well known is perfumery practices and principles by Roberts our Kalkan so this is another one that goes into quite a lot of detail and again won't be won't be a must for most people especially watching this video this is not for kind of beginners they're more advanced books for people that really want more of an in-depth knowledge but I would say Monday after tell is the best place to start for beginners in terms of what you need to make perfume at home you're gonna need to buy yourself some glass beakers like these I use fifty mil glass beakers obviously to make your blends in and you're gonna need plastic disposable pipettes you can find these on Amazon as well as the glass beakers you can get them on Amazon or Ebay just generally online you'll find them quite easily so disposable plastic per pets and if you want to do things really properly then you would need a scale for this video we're not going to do scales because the way Munday have tell teachers beginners is all drops so it's drops from a and that's kind of a very basic beginners guides who to make perfume at home so it's less less expense and less technical so we're gonna be following basically a guide for Monday have tell but I've made it my own formula instead of copying hers but if you want to use a scale that's more accurate my scale is an Ohio's scale and again you can find them online in terms of where to buy oils from and I'll get into a little bit of how perfume is made so there are links in the description I'm not sponsored by anybody I don't get any cutbacks or feedback or anything from providing links I just do that because it's where I buy things for a minute is helpful for you and so if you click on them I don't get anything for it it's just helpful so people people Brandis like perfumers apprentice in America a good option and yeah there'll be a few links in the description for that and so perfume is comprised of different oils combined together to create a scent so the most common that most people will be familiar with is an essential oil with most of us have grown up knowing about some essential oils and they are a natural oil derived from nature so like lavender for example and so essential oils then you have absolutes and absolute is basically a more concentrated oil is taken in a slightly different way and then and then you have things like tinctures a tincture is basically where a substance is soaked in alcohol and the alcohol takes in the scent from whatever's within it so for instance you could tincture saffron pods or vanilla beans things like that and you could take to them in alcohol and then the alcohol takes on the center of the vanilla bean and then you would have a vanilla tincture there's there's multiple different extraction processes like co2 co2 extraction whether use gasses to remove so like they put like a glass bulb around the flower for example but we don't really need to know too much about that for the beginners so basically you're combining things like essential oils absolutes and tinctures to create an accord or multiple Accords within a perfume typically comprised of top mid and base notes but not necessarily the way I do things I don't tend to use top notes very often I really work in mid and base for myself personally from my own taste for modern perfumery most perfumes in the world will use large quantities of aroma molecules which are called synthetics these are not natural oils they're man-made and they can range from anything from smelling like candy floss like cotton candy which is like ethyl maltol to smelling of like mimicking florals and things like that or mimicking the scent of sandalwood for example and so aroma chemical synthetics widely used in perfume modern perfumery and to like a high degree like eighty ninety a hundred percent of the perfume will be aroma molecule and synthetic there's a few natural all-natural perfumery runs they're more kind of artisanal Indy small brands really the main what's in the public in the in the stores will be mostly entirely synthetic so the formula I've come up with for you as a beginning kind of tutorial is a blend of synthetic around the molecule and natural essential oils and absolutes to give you a kind of a mixed-media perfume so then it will smell more like what you're familiar with as perfume rather than smelling maybe a little bit more homemade which will probably be the case for most peopled ambling beginning wise with just essential oils for example it will smell more like an aromatherapy blend and not like a perfume that you're used to in the store and that's the reason is because of the lack of used the use of synthetics which is a common now in perfume one thing to be aware of with oils like these is that they you don't want to spill them on any kind of wooden surface because it will quickly remove the the color from the wood so if you have like a nice stains wooden tabletop for example and you spill some rose absolutes on there it's gonna instantly like remove the color from the wood so what I do is I buy these graphic tablet Maps these are like art craft cutting mats like craft people with craft knives cutting whatever on it you can pick those upon again just google them Amazon whatever however you want to buy them but a cutting mat like this a graphics mat which is made of a rubber look like plastic in Reverse stuff that will really help you keeping your furniture from being destroyed and these where I arranged my little organ so to speak and these are just three-tier plastic cooking kitchen rack spice things you can find them on Amazon just put like a 3-tier spice rack or three-tier kitchen rack on Amazon and you will find things like this which very useful in creating your own organ so I've got one two three four five of them in like a horseshoe shape each one has three layers so you can organize your oils in groups obviously I've got about 300 or so oils so you're not going to need that many as a beginner just start off always small because I think with any any hobby getting into a hobby a lot of people will fall out a lot of people will fall out with it after so long this like people wanting to pick up to play guitar for example you might buy an acoustic guitar you might have it for a year and you might a few times and you might learn kind of half a song and then you get kind of bored with it and then it gonna gets put in the corner and then you forget about it and completers lates that you're selling it on eBay so the point the point is don't invest loads and loads of money at the beginning when you're learning you want to start off small only by a handful of oils don't spend a ridiculous amount of money see if you like the process of it see if you enjoy it if it's something that you want to take further and just see how you feel you know as the months go by if it feels like it's naturally you're really wanting to expand then go ahead and start buying a little more but what I'm saying is don't spend too much all at once because you might find that you lose interest you might find that the passion isn't there to keep it going so just be aware of that and don't get too silly but feeling like you have to buy all this all all this because this has accumulated over the years so start off small and yeah just have fun with it and don't be I don't think you have to worry about being too serious it can be a fun passionate kind of hobby you don't have to be a be a perfumer or have your own branding it can just be something that you make for your own self and for your own family and friends and it's more fun that's what this video is for to help people get into that in terms of when you finish your perfume blend we're gonna be making 10 mil 10 mil perfume in this obviously if you want to make 30 or 50 ml you just times it appropriately but you can use you know glass atomizers which you can find on again on the internet I'm not gonna tell you which websites to use whatever you want you can find perfume glass bottles be aware that the some may need crimping and then you would need a crimping machine so don't get into that mistake look for a screw top if you're going to be buying glass bottles that way disposable perfume bottles you want something with a screw top that you don't need a crimp or travel atomizers obviously you'd be using something like a travel atomizer which you can again find on eBay or wherever so when we talk about perfume composition they're kind of classical way of doing is we have a base a mid section and a top notes so base materials of basis like the the longest-lasting part of the fragrance the the bit that's going to be on your hand for the longest time those are the base materials those are typically things like Musk's or resins myrrh frankincense benzoin labdanum things like that your wood cedar wood standards and your Musk's and vanilla really long lasting materials are going to be your base notes your mid notes tend to be more the floral kind of compositions you know rose Jasmine Alang Alang tuberose these kind of things really in the mid section of the perfume and then your top notes can be your spices and your citruses your fresh kind of top notes like cardamom lime grapefruit bergamot these kind of materials will be considered top notes so then when you men that make a perfume you would combine your base so for example sandalwood with your mid miss let's say rose with a top note let's say you put bergamot on there so you could have your your woody notes your floral and then your citrus on top and that's the general kind of simplistic way to look at a perfume composition in terms of bass mid and top down that isn't like set in law for example you can make a perfume completely comprised of just base notes alone you can make it out of Basin mid and just not bother putting any top notes in so really that's up to like artist discretion so to speak it's like painting a picture how how many colors do you want to use how complex do you want the picture to be or in creating music how many chords should the song have is it just going to have four chords are you going to make something that's real really complicated so you can go anywhere you want with perfume just as you can with music as you can with painting if you want to dive in and make something that's super-complicated and use 30 40 50 60 70 materials then people do that but then you can also make a perfume with just five or six materials so it's it's really is your own discretion and kind of what your heart tells you to do basically so just go with the flow enjoy the creativity aspect of it I'll give you a few examples of just basics so when we talk about our cords in perfume and a cord this I think there's two ways to look at an accord but we'll we'll give the kind of more they're the proper definition I guess an accord really technically is where you combine two or more materials together to create something that's unique among itself so you're combining multiple oils together where it no longer smells like those individual notes it actually creates a whole new smell so patchouli mixed with grapefruit makes chocolate orange for example which you you know that's kind of unusual but it does it smells like chocolate orange so then you're taking two things that smell a certain way you're combining them and it makes something new that's the basic definition of an accord so let's say you've got an incense Accord now an incense Accord would typically start off with myrrh and frankincense and then you would build on that with complexity so you can add other resins in there you could add different woods you could have spices and you curate an accord and incense accord so think of it as creating an illusion of something is another way to look at creating an accord or one accord can be is that you're you're seeing something that you want to mimic and then you create and mimic that to replicate what you you want your your desired result is so if you want to make a smoky incense you you put these notes together to give you the illusion of a smoky incense that is also an accord so yeah basically we can make perfumes by building a cause together to create a pattern of like a chord in a song for example where you you're taking single notes and then create a full chord which gives you that you know this the chord of the song is a fuller sound that's what I record this to the perfume and so you could build a base of chord and then you could build an accord for the midsection and a chord for the top however you kind of want to structure it now you don't have to use a chords so to speak you could use single individual notes in career perfume that way too so you're not always reliant on a chords but that's the most kind of common step in creating perfume is the use of a chords but like I say for beginners that's not particularly essential you can dabble just putting two materials together and seeing how they smell combined so a good way to do that is to get paper test strips so a good way to do that is to get paper far away disposable test strips and you can open your oil you can dab it in or get your pipette and just drop a single drop on the end and then get a second strip and then do the same either dab it in or again single drop you can put them together like a little fan and then you smell them like this and you can smell how those two materials work together and you can go out okay that would work before you actually go ahead and put it in the beaker and then decide that doesn't smell very good because a lot of the time when you're learning are you going to be putting things together and finding out that they don't smell particularly good together and that's the learning process of making perfume is figuring out what works together and what doesn't and that's just practice that's just a learning curve of figuring figuring these things out really this is also a good starting point for creating a chords instead of wasting oils in a beaker you can have the Accord idea in your head you can boom ba-ba-boom with like four or five different test strips stick them all together you can even put them on a fan like this are you you pin them on a little clip and then you can smell them together again as a an arrange of an accord the CF that Accord would work that's a really good way of seeing if it's gonna work before you waste your oils in the beaker so it saves you you know save you money really at the end of the day to create to see if you think that that idea is gonna work if it does then you can slowly add drop at a time each material smell it as you go to see if you like the balance and perfume really is about balance and harmony so the thing you've got to remember is that you can never take away you can always add so always start off with the smallest amount see if how that smells first see if you like it if you want to add more just add a little bit more and then test it again and you you build up a balance of okay this and this is nicely balanced I don't want to any more of this particular material so if you're using rose and Jasmine together you'll you will find a balance where you you like that like it's a naturally appealing oh I found my sweet spot so to speak so if you go over that you can never remove it so that's something to bear in mind always kind of go under and then you can add more never go over because you will like I say you cannot remove that oil once it's in there so take your time to get the balance and the harmony because that's what perfume is is a balance and harmony of notes to your personal taste no one can tell you if your perfume is good or bad because it's made to your personal taste you your nose is specific to you and your brain and your memories and Association so if you like it and you like that balance don't be put off by someone else telling you that they don't like it or it doesn't smell good if it's not as good to you as far as good to you that's the end of the story so in the Monday after book she recommends 33 drops off or mixtures with eight milliliters of perfumes alcohol so this makes about two mil juice so to speak two mil of the perfume oil with eight mil alcohol to create a 10 mil perfume finished product and so we're going to be working off that basis based on her book as well as her recipe in the description below mine so it's up to you which one you want to follow the one I'm going to be creating will be a unisex fragrance maybe a little bit leaning more feminine but generally unisex and it would be kind of a spring summertime fragrance that's kind of the daytime it smells like spring it's a little bit busy and bright in the top we're going to use some nice materials that's going to give you kind of a zingy freshness and that kind of a fruity muskiness it's going to smell good it's going to smell like a real perfume and hopefully you'll enjoy it's a minimal kind of simple perfume but it will give you a basic idea of of the starting point as a beginner too to start figuring out how to make perfume and I will give links again in the description to - where to buy these things one important point to make when creating perfume is that these plastic per pets you don't want to reuse them so these are really one-time use so let's say I'm using a rose absolutes I pick up a rose I take three drops I put it in my beaker I put the bottle back this pipette wants to go in the bin now do not use it and don't put it into any other oil because you will put that rose oil obviously in your lavender or whatever you pick up next and then your lavender is gonna get ruined because it's going to smell of rose so use disposable pipettes and only use them one time if you're worried about plastic waste I recommend I don't have any right here but you can get basically glass beakers that have a pipette installed within the lid so you have a squeezy top and sucks up and you can like a bulb and you can do it that way but it will require you buying oils in containers like this and then pouring it into another container that has you know the screw bulb just be aware that if the oil goes into the bulb it can corrode the rubber of the bulb that you suck up with and it can perish it so just be just watch your oils if you're doing that but for a beginner like I say if you don't want to use disposable pipettes that way where you're wasting a lot of plastic so if you don't want to use a lot of plastic and be throwing plastic away which isn't great really but use the the little glass bottles with the with a pipette installed in the lid and you can pour them in there and label them yourself and that way you just unscrew and use the drops from the already installed think you're not going to contaminate any of your oils but that's very important make sure you do one or the other just don't mix oils together basically you want to keep them all really nice and pure you don't want to mess around with them I'm gonna mention briefly there are a couple of materials in here that I'm using that you want to be a little bit careful of vanillin is a material I'm gonna be using in this formula is very common in perfume but do be careful as a beginner because if you buy it normally it will come as a powder and then you will have to dilute that which you'll need a scale to do it properly so please only buy ones that are pre diluted so perfumers apprentice for example you can get it at 10% in dilution and so it's already diluted for you at 10% and that's what this formula is it uses a 10% vanillin just to be clear that you don't go out and start buying powders which you won't know what to do with make sure it's you're buying a 10% won for this and benzene is another one that's it can be a very thick resin you would have to heat it up to use it properly so we're going to be using a 50% dilution of benzene so it's diluted down 50% in alcohol that will make it a lot easier to use you won't have to heat it up the same and is like I say much more easier so just make sure you're buying the correct dilutions of it so to speak the way it's not going to cause you trouble apart from that there's not much else to say so we'll get into the formula and we'll start off so we're gonna start off with the first material which is called timber silk this is a similar molecule to isiliye super but we're going to use timber silk this is really easily available and it's not very expensive it's quite cheap and it's used in a whole heap of commercialized fragrances it's a very common material that you'll recognise and it's gonna make it smell like what you would associate as a real perfume so to speak from from a shop rather than a homemade thing so we're gonna be using seven drops of timber silk to start with timber silk has kind of a musky very pale kind of wood kind of aroma to it as woody as musky as lights it's Airy that's kind of what it would give to you from there we're gonna add our and Bretta lied and Bretta lied is a musk molecule so it's gonna kind of smell like fresh cotton laundry basically imagine like fresh towels out of the laundry you have that kind of musky soapy kind of freshness that's what I bet light will give to you they smooth dry cotton like almost a little bit soapy that will give you a nice muskiness to this fragrance and provide a solid base combined to that timber silk so we're gonna add 6 drops of hand red light to our seven drops timber silk next up we're gonna add the vanillin which is a 10 percent dilution I wanna stress that it's diluted to 10% make sure you don't get the powder and we're gonna add 6 drops of vanilla and vanilla as basically a synthetic vanilla accord or vanilla notes so this is going to smell like kind of vanilla icing sugar is super vanilla II and that's going to give you the vanilla II sweetie goodness to this fragrance following that we're going to next add benzine which will be a 50 percent dilution benzine is a sweet resinous material this slightly vanilla canned sweet and kind of syrupy and and really good it smells great benzine will give you a really nice sweet warm resinous base to this fragrance and we're going to use 5 drops of benzine next we're gonna add rose absolute for this particular formula I've used a Bulgarian rose absolutes I'll leave it to your discretion what you want to use but I use the Bulgarian rose absolutes and a hundred percent strength and we're going to use five drops of the rose absolute size 5 drops next up we're going to add two drops of lavender essential oil and this will give it a kind of a bright freshness and make it smell really good it's gonna the lavender will be subtle but it will give you a perky kind of freshness to the top notes of this and combined with that kind of the the rose in the mid moving on from the lavender we're going to use a material called c14 and aldehydes c14 this is a peach molecule and this kind of it's a kind of a basically a Lac tonic kind of peachy musky kind of soapy almost kind of a blanket effect so it's kind of a blank it's a soft pillowy peachy creaminess and so penis and it's gonna give a kind of a roundness to the fragrance and also a warm kind of round soft sweetness which will work really well with this and get an interesting top notes so we're just going to add the one drop because this is quite strong um you don't overdo it it will overpower the fragrance of one drop is is enough for this and we're gonna finish this perfume off with a zingy top note we're going to use the ginger absolutes ginger obviously most people will be familiar with how ginger smells it bright fresh kind of fiery sparkle eNOS and we're gonna just add the one drop of ginger absolute which will give that kind of peachy floral a kind of a crackling kind of bright sparkle it's gonna smell sparkly and fresh invigorating in the top notes and that's it so once we've added those materials we've got seven timber silk we've got six and Beth lied five benzine six vanillin five drops Rose absolute two of the lavender one of the c14 peach aldehyde and one drop ginger and then once we've done that we're gonna top the beak up to the ten mil level ten milliliter level with perfumers alcohol in the UK I can recommend one in the description that I use personally mistral alcohol if you're in America I will leave it a link in the description where you can pick a perfume is alcohol up from but primarily is based in ethanol and so just fill that up to the ten mil mark and you will have a finished perfume which you can basically bottle straight away I won't get into things like maceration because that's I don't think you need to know about that for for a beginner for such a simple perfume but maceration is the process of leaving your oils to what they call macerates basically imagine it like you have created a soup you want to let the soup sit for a while for all those flavours to infuse that's what the process and the maceration is so before you add the alcohol you let those oils infuse together and you can leave it for a month or more to infuse and create these chemical reactions with each other where the scent may change in that time and then you you can top it up with alcohol after that but for for beginners and for very simplistic perfumes is really not needed you can bottle that up straight away and wear it immediately that's it and that's how to make perfume for beginners at home in a very simplistic way where you don't need fancy education you don't need to go to perfume school for years to do very basic perfumes at home you don't need a fancy scale all you need glass beaker some pipette and an experimental mind and just have fun with it and see what you can come up with start with combining two materials together and seeing what the outcome is if you pick a group of materials you want to start off buying I'll leave some suggestions in the comments but so in the description below which will give you kind of my input on what be the kind of essentials for beginners - to start off with if you want to buy some of those and you can start combining you know like I say two or three of them together like I say the test strip weight is a really good way because then you can basically go through all the oils you own by pairing them together with the same strips you're not actually wasting your oils you've only used it a DAB and then you can take - you can see how they smell together you can take a third one so yeah the three together smells and then you can MIT mix and match and you'll get a really good idea of how all these different oils are working together and what kind of sense they make when you combine them to figure out how you're going to make a cords in the future that is the for me that but the best way and the most simple way the most practical way of a beginner learning you can also keep a journal this is something real perfumers do when they're going through perfume perfumery school you can keep a journal of our cords that you've created and ideas so you can write you know rose and jasmine and look and smell them together and write your impression of what that gives to you in your mind and then you can you can take you know different materials combine them together to create and then write your impressions of of colors of texture or however you want to remember those things you can write them down to give you that kind of recall when you when you look through and that would be really helpful in your learning process of remembering how things smell and remembering combinations of things I hope you found that helpful again this is meant to be a very basic how to make perfume video at home for beginners that's a really good starting point I hope you enjoyed it I hope you like the creation I think it smells quite nice and again it's simple but is a really good starting point for beginners it will give you something that smells like a perfume and a really good kind of solid starting point for experimentation check out the description below for more detailed information and that's it hoped you enjoyed the video and I'll see you again next time with another one good luck take care and have fun and enjoy it bye everyone [Music]

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Published: Sat Apr 04 2020