Making your own exclusive perfume for that special person in your life really isn’t that hard to do. A woman gets excited when she knows that her fragrance is unique to her and that no one else will have that perfume and, more importantly, will be able to buy it. Getting the right ingredients and sample formulating your blend so you have a unique fragrance just for you is your first step to eliminating it.
Using the correct essential oils is of paramount importance. But before you start creating your perfect scent, you need to understand that there are 3 layers of what are called “notes,” one of which is a binder that helps meld your oils together to create the right fragrance for you. Perfumes are blended in three parts including a base note which produces the strongest and longest lasting fragrance and also a top note which is the lightest and least long lasting note and will dissipate first. You don’t have to worry about how many essential oils you use because you can use as many as you like, but you do need to use all three separate fragrance layers with a binder. This is the most accepted structure when it comes to making any type of perfume.
There are many more you can add to this list, but here is a small list of essential oils that make up your binders.
top = lavender, lemon, lime, rose
Means, medium = neroli and yang-ylang, clove, geranium, lemongrass
Settled down = vanilla, cedar, patchouli, cinnamon and sandalwood
folders = vanilla and lavender
Your oil base note should be 8 drops, then you should continue with 8 drops of your middle note, and then you have your final 8 drops of your top note in a pure grain alcohol that is measured at two and a half ounces. Most people will use Vodka as pure grain alcohol because it doesn’t have an alcohol odor and is either premixed or diluted with distilled water.
Now that you have your fragrance mix, it’s time to add your binder. If your selection does not already have its binding oils, add a few drops of your binding oil and let the mixture sit for no less than 24 hours. The longer you let your formula sit, the stronger your fragrance will be. This is the time when you continually check to see how the smell of your mix is changing so that when you have the right fragrance you can move on to the next step.
Adding a couple of tablespoons of distilled water to the perfume at this point will prevent your fragrance from changing. Please mix well. Then add a few drops of glycerin, another fixative that will help stabilize your perfume, as it will also help your fragrance last longer.
At this point in your chemistry project, before your mixture settles, go ahead and pour it into a bottle using a coffee filter as a strainer so that it draws out any particulate matter left over from the oils as well as from the extraction process.
So, as you can see, it’s really not that hard to make your own fragrance and drag that man you want to catch out the door as you walk out of the room.