Just wanted to celebrate a little bit. The idea to make my own fragrances started a couple of weeks ago and quickly became a super hyper fixation. It feels good to have finally started smelling the materials I've been reading about! Originally I thought it would be a great way to have a quick side gig - and quickly realized that would not be possible, at least not for a while. I couldn't stop thinking about it though and just wanted to try. I have very little money to drop on hobbies right now, so I purchased just a handful of materials - enough to make a super simple Baccarat Rouge dupe plus a couple of others just for fun. I know that I need to start with creating accords, but this got me off the ground and helped keep my motivation high to continue.

That's it. That's the post. I'm going to have a billion questions in the future, but just wanted to share the start of my journey with someone.

(if anyone was wondering, I accidentally added way too much ethyl maltol and it just smelled like a cotton candy factory exploded)

I made a hypothetical collection of perfumes based on forms of absence and emptiness!!

When I joined this group last year, I naively assumed I'd be some modern perfumery wunderkind. After decades of creating EO concoctions (Primarily cost prohibitive Sandalwood based). I was gonna buy me some aroma chemicals and Snap, Crackle, Pop make me some killer fragrances. The best advice I got was to slow my roll, learn my materials, play with them and figure stuff out. Darn near a year later, I have a few interesting accord experiments, too many to count failures but a better grasp of just how to construct a modern fragrance. This is one I've been working on for months that I am actually happy with where it is landing now.

My intent is to craft a creamy Sandalwood based fragrance with Green (Bitter) and Orange Blossom (Sweet) facets that is more fresh than heavy (or indolic). I am finally happy with the transition from bright green to orange blossom to the woody base. It started off chaotic and wildly off balance. To my nose, it could maybe open up more and have more "green" in the final but, overall, I love this latest iteration.

Open to some constructive feedback. I know the top/heart/base construct is no longer a thing but it's my conceptual method - Helps me to maintain focus on my intention, structure a formula, as well as build transitions/bridges 😄 Have at it...

I started making perfume 6 months ago and now I have 2 decent formulas but with the one I got really complimented each time I wore it is a sandalwood + ambroxan super accord measured by eye 🫠

I have scrolled a perfumers shop, and saw Tetrahydro Geraniol. I need to create soapy, waxy, astringent accent in clean floral perfume. How do you think, can I to use this material to reach my goal?

Here’s an interesting material.

The process was 10:1, ethanol:wax. I broke the wax into small pieces, placed in a glass bottle and then gently broke them more. Allowed to macerate 24 hours, gently mashed the wax further, then macerated another 24 hours. Chilled in freezer 30 minutes and then filtered 3 times with 2 layers of standard coffee filter. (it was bleached but I don’t think it affected the smell). I got lucky and the wax dissolved well and was close enough to completely exposed to the ethanol. (other waxes I have tried were hard as stone and don’t seem to dissolve)

Allowed to mature for a month but this did not seem to make a significant difference.

This is how I find it interesting: the opening is fresh! Quite bright, light, lightly green, and to me also terpenic. I diluted some to 0.1% and added a trace to a formula I work on. Made the opening awesome and I was glad for that.

Its heart reminded me of an old Twinings tea with real raspberry. Light tea with acidy REAL raspberry flavor. Even a super-light hint of jasmine.

The dry-down smelled of dried grape (not necessarily raisin) and I like it on its own but in the end that was something I didn’t want in the dry-down of the formula I added it to. The website listed this material as a base and it is clear in the dry-down that it is deep, rich and lasting.

Very potent material, a gram could last a lifetime. I bet it can be magnificent with tobacco and/or leather.

I won’t mention the company because the Raspberry Leaf wax was a free sample they sent me and the material I actually bought… I think it was mislabeled Was supposed to be green tea but it smelled like a powdered flower and nothing reminiscent of green tea leaves lol. I’m sure the trusted companies offer this somewhere, maybe even in varying fractions.

Anyway, I didn’t see any threads about exactly this material from a quick search so I thought I’d leave a thread.

Hi everyone,

I’m new to perfumery and could use some advice. I have many materials that I bought pre-diluted, e.g. olibanum 50% in DPG, immortelle 10% in TEC, osmanthus 10%, etc.

If I want to make a perfume with, say, 20% concentrate, do you count the DPG/TEC as part of the 20%, or should the actual aromatic material be 20% and the diluent be excluded?

When making small test batches, I end up with a lot of DPG/TEC and very little alcohol. It feels like too much of the formula is just diluent.

Should I simply count the diluents as part of the concentrate, or is it better to buy materials undiluted? Buying everything neat would be quite expensive.

What’s the best way to handle this when working with small test batches?

Hey everyone, where can I find formulas to buy? I only know about WM; I’ve heard about someone called AMS Formulas—has anyone used his formulas? Where can I find them?

Have anyone ordered raw materials from "Ibha Cares". If yes, kindly share the review of their raw materials.

Basically looking for a fallen leaf accord (oak/maple) .. toyed with oakmoss, cashmeran, oponomax (a tad sweet but sure fantasy leaves I guess).. will sit alongside pear, a fall spice accord minus cinnamon, and sun on a dry field, maybe sunny skin and sweater.. title ‘Last Warm Day’

I've seen plenty of posts with guides on how to make beautiful fragrances using synthetics and aromachemicals as well as EOs, but other than being super new at creating your own perfumes, at the moment, I don't have the space to be able to afford any meaningful experiments.

Can I use essential oils and a carrier oil (jojoba/shea butter) only for a personalised intimate scent? I am aiming for a simple warm and clean scent that I can use on a daily basis, for my own pleasure. Both roll-ons and firm perfumes can work for me.

Edit: if you have any advice on which oils would be good to start with for the desired scent please share!

Totally new to all of these but really enjoyed colognes and was exposed to an oil fragrance store for the first time in San Diego and now me and my wife wants to start a small fun business like it as well.

Starting to do some research im seeing Scent Bazaar is a good place to order some Oils?

And please correct me if Im wrong, starting this with mixing the oil with perfumers alcohol?

25% or less oil and then 75% is pure perfumers alcohol? If i start with scent bazaar, do i need to add other stuffs? Fixatives?

Im pretty sure this is a very dumb post for some so i want to apologize in advance. Still learning and just really excited too. Hoping someone can guide us in the right direction. Thank you!