Make Your Own Perfume
photo credit: hannahbananalangyIf you do not like any commercial fragrances, make your own perfume. That's probably the best thing to do instead of feeling frustrated spend hours smelling perfume in department stores and specialty shops. Also, you might end up creating a perfume that is cheaper but richer and more perfect for your body.
In making its own scents, you should always remember that perfumes have three basic structures or layers, namely the base notes, the heart or middle notes and top notes. Top notes are the first to notice smell and is also the first to evaporate.
Top notes manage first impressions. Create a mood and immediately captivate. Meanwhile, heart notes or otherwise known as the middle notes or Coeur. These odors appear later and last longer. They give character to the perfume. The final layer is the basis of notes that lasts longer. Gradually the leaves mixed with both the heart note and the highest note.
Make sure you don't put natural essential oils and absolutes as top notes. Basically they are sometimes complex compounds that already contain middle notes, top notes and even features. So be careful when you start mixing or blending of different types of essential oils.
Ideally, the top notes are made from citrus oils like bergamot, lemon, tangerine, orange, etc. Conifer oils as cypress, fir, pine, fir, etc. can also be used. It also notes the popular principle oils include oils of peppermint, cardamom, basil, chamomile, juniperberry, ginger, rosemary and petit grain. When it comes to middle notes, probably the best oils to use floral oils and absolutes such as pepper, cumin, black, cinnamon, sage, clove and the outbreak.
The oils of elemi, coriander, galbanum, marjoram, geranium, lavender and nutmeg are also excellent average grade materials. Palmarosa, thyme and violet leaf absolute have also been used before and their ability to blend have proven quite effective. Oils as cedar wood, gaiac, sandalwood and linaloe are great as base notes. Just as are the oils of frankincense and myrrh resin.
Perfumers also use labdanum, patchouli, oak moss absolute, vetiver, and even hints of vanilla as a base for perfumes.
When making your own perfumes, it is always important to know your materials. Essential oils, for example, have different characters, behavior, strengths and weaknesses. Each feature should be considered and their effects studied closely. You need to know the effects of essential oils and blends of perfume on your skin.
It is necessary to understand how the shape of the mixture will react when diluted or when in place over time. You need to be prepared and know or at least have an idea of how you will react the mixture. It is therefore the perfect advice to list all processes that are undertaken, from measurements to the mix of procedures.
And as important as the actual measurements are, take regular breaks. This will not only help in enhancing creativity, but it will help you to save some of the harmful effects of prolonged exposure of the oils. Remember that you are working with essential oils.
These oils are very concentrated and very strong odor. It is therefore possible sick if they spent too much time working on them, especially in unventilated areas. And besides, there is a limit to the amount of scent or perfume on the nose can take.
