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Perfume Making Tips

There are many ways in which you can make perfume easily and with great fun. Here are a few tips:

To maintain the natural essence of your perfume, sample the essential oil you intend using-after all, it might react with your skin.
If this is your first formula and it is expensive oil, go in for a dram sized bottle which comes in the shape of a tube. These are perfect for testing the oils, if you think you're going to be allergic.
How strong your perfume finally is depends on the ratio of essential oils to water and alcohol. At its strongest, perfume comprises 15-30 percent essential oil, 70-85 percent alcohol, and the remainder five percent water.
Make sure you use only bottled distilled or spring water.
Also use 100 proof Vodka for alcohol, though you could also try brandy, though it has its own aroma which can be overpowering enough to get in the way of blending in the essential oils.
Do you want to add color to your perfume? If so, add a good grade, natural, vegetable food dye.
When your perfume is ready, put them in sterilized bottles instead of cut glass beautifully shaped ones. The latter attract the sun-a perfume's largest enemy.
To store your perfume, place it in a separate container and if you want to show off your creation in a beautifully cut bottle, pour out just enough perfume into it and display it.
Always use glass containers to prepare and store perfumes, not plastic.
Date, name and record each blend you create.
To smooth out and subdue the raw-ingredient smell, you need to mature your formula by allowing your blend to sit for a few days or weeks in a cool, dry, dark area.
When making your own formula, once you add a new essential oil, check the fragrance and your recipe to get an idea of how it changes and so modify it in future.
Before you add a new essential oil, make sure you clean the eyedropper in alcohol or vodka.
When making your own perfume, remember your options:

Base notes: cedar wood cinnamon patchouli, sandalwood and vanilla
Middle notes: clove, geranium, lemongrass, bottle nutmeg, neroli and ylang-ylang
Top notes: bergamot, lavender lemon lime neroli
Bridge: vanilla or lavender. Add a few drops of these to the above three categories

While making your perfume, remember to mix a minimum of 25 drops of essential oils comprising base, middle and top notes. Also remember to begin with the base notes, go on to middle and then top.
Keep checking the fragrance as you go along.
Lastly, get yourself a book to record all the exact proportions and the recipe you used and the amount of essential oils used to get the concentrate.

And one last, last tip: don't consider perfume-making as something difficult to accomplish. If you treat it as fun, instead, you're going to have a lot of it even after you create your own signature perfume.

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