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Blending essential oils is not always easy and it is also very subjective. Fortunately, there are some tips that are useful and can help you create a pleasing and balanced blend.

First of all you need to familiarize yourself with the top, middle, and base notes. Battaglia agrees with Lavabre, who suggests the following ratio: top notes: 20-30% midddle notes: 40-80% base notes: 10-25%

Battaglia used to believe in a different ratio but he writes that Lavabre's ratio works perfectly for aromatherapy.

t is important that the blend you make doesn't brake up into three stages that smells differently, you don't want them to leave the others behind. If the essential oil blend falls apart it is not formulated very well.

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How To Make Perfume and Fragrances - Wholesale Body Oils - Start Your Own Perfume Business

A small vial of perfume oil can cost you as little as .75 cents, but its value to your customer can be as much as $10-$125!! Yes $125!! The retail price at my shop was $8 per bottle for the smallest size of perfume oil and $40 for the largest. Can you see the potential?

Have you noticed the surge in roll on perfumes being sold in boutiques and department stores over the last 2-3 years? Initially there were only 3 popular brands. You may be familiar with them. They are usually only sold in exclusive boutiques like Fred Segal, Henri Bendel and Sephora — Child, Kai and Clean. Today, if you just take a quick browse through any department store or Sephora you’ll see dozens more perfume oils and roll on perfumes being sold by major brands like Lavanila, Philosophy, Stella and more. You can do like I did and open your own shop or a cart in a mall, sell out of your home, build your own web store, sell at arts fairs and festivals, do home parties. All of these ways are featured in The Sweet Smell of Success Guide available below.

You can create your own line of perfume oils like the creators of "Child" and "Kai". You can even start a bath and body shop or Open your own Fragrance Bar with the sources in this manual.

People who are successful in this business keep their sources a secret because they know that their sources of excellent quality oils and ingredients is what makes them successful. That’s proprietary INFORMATION and they will NOT tell you!!

Ironically, I was one of these people. Most likely when you start your business you will be the same way!

How To Make Perfume and Fragrances – Wholesale Body Oils – Start Your Own Perfume Business

A small vial of perfume oil can cost you as little as .75 cents, but its value to your customer can be as much as $10-$125!! Yes $125!! The retail price at my shop was $8 per bottle for the smallest size of perfume oil and $40 for the largest. Can you see the potential?

Have you noticed the surge in roll on perfumes being sold in boutiques and department stores over the last 2-3 years?…

Make Your Own Cologne

By Shelley Stonebrook

The natural soaps and detergents industry has gotten quite creative in recent years when concocting their fragrances. Grapefruits and sandalwood lend their scents to laundry powders and eucalyptus and tea tree castile soaps have found their way into my shower. I recently came across a new favorite dish soap — lavender bergamot — that, with its decidedly woodsy aroma, turned my mind to men’s cologne. (Find out how to make floral-based perfumes, if that sounds more like you.)

1)  The name Perfume comes from the Latin word “per fume” which means “through smoke”- this makes sense as the earliest perfumes were incense based, and were made from spices and herbs such as coriander and frankincense.

2) The earliest modern style of perfume (made by blending essential oils with an alcohol solution) was created in 1310 for Queen Elizabeth of Hungary. This fragrance, known as “Hungary Water” was a blend of rosemary, thyme, and verbena essence in brandy, and variations can still be purchased today by traditional perfumers. Originally it was used as tonic water as well as a perfume, and physicians prescribed it to gargle with for all sorts of ailments!

3) There are many aromatic sources available in nature, and all parts of plants are used in the quest for new and exciting scents. There are fragrance oils made from: barks, blossoms, seeds, woods, fruits, leaves, resins, roots, lichens, and even microorganisms!

4) Perfumes can also contain animal ingredients, although nowadays many of these are created synthetically for ethical reasons. Some of these animal “fragrances” include honeycomb, civet, musk, castoreum, and ambergris (whale vomit!).

5) Ambergris really is whale vomit!  It’s a waxy grey substance regurgitated by Sperm Whales which often washes up on beaches.  Real ambergris is still used by some of the more expensive perfume houses, but most high street perfumes contain a synthetic substitute.  Aged ambergris has a sweet, earthy scent, and has a wonderful mellowing and enhancing effect on other fragrances.

6) Nowadays many modern perfumes are made from synthetic fragrance oils. This allows for many different fragrance combinations not found in nature- for instance, “Calone” is a synthetic compound which imparts an ozonous/marine scent; and fragrance compounds have been extracted from unlikely substances such as petroleum, which smells pretty awful on its own!  

   Synthetic fragrance can create a more consistent effect than natural oils, although many people still like the idea of a “real”, non synthetic fragrance.

7) The two most commonly used flower essences in modern perfumery are Rose and Jasmine; which are staples in commercial perfumers’ palettes. Actually, these two scents are so lovely I think most of us could probably have guessed this!

8)  An “Eau de Cologne” is a milder, watered down perfume typically with concentrations of between 2- 5% essential oils to base. The style originated in Cologne, Germany, and was used by both men and women, although nowadays it is marketed more towards men.

9) Grasse in Provence, France is considered to be the birthplace, and the capital, of modern perfumery. It started out as a leather and tanning capital in the 13th century, providing perfumed gloves when they became highly fashionable. Eventually the leather glove trend faded, but the perfume was still very much in demand...

   Grass is an ideal place for perfume making as it has the perfect microclimate for growing delicate flowers.

10) Perfume can make you feel better!  Scientific studies have shown that there is a link between scents and our emotions- so putting on the right fragrance really can put you in a better mood. Wear some lavender if you want to relax, for example, or something citrusy if you need an instant energy boost.

To make your very own simple perfume at home isn't difficult, in fact you may already have some of the ingredients available right now.

Commercial perfume such as Dior or Ralph Lauren is primarily made from a special perfumers base- which put simply, is very strong, very pure, and very high proof denatured alcohol.Of course there are many other chemical additives and extenders, which vary from perfume to perfume, but carry out the purpose of both preserving and *fixing* the scent.

A note: Before you reach for the gin, I've tried making perfume from shop bought bottles of vodka, gin etc. in the past, and although I met with some level of success, the proof of the alcohol really wasn't strong enough to be effectively miscible with the fragrance oils. So for now, we'll talk about making an oil based perfume, as the ingredients are readily to hand in local health shops and maybe even your own fridge right now!

Oil based perfume is the most ancient form of scent, being the perfume of choice for the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Eygptians- in fact the oldest perfume yet discovered was discovered in Cyprus in 2003 and dates back more than 4000 years. These precious ancient perfumes would most definitely have been oil based! (And very aptly were discovered on the island reputed to be the birthplace of Aphrodite- but this is a story for another day...)

Before you begin your blend, you'll need to get hold of the following components:

Ingredients list

A non-pungent base oil- (Olive oil won't do unless you want to smell like salad dressing!) Grape Seed Oil and Sweet Almond Oil are both usually readily available in health shops, and inexpensive. Watch out for Jojoba Oil, which although lovely will solidify if it gets cool which can be a bit disconcerting if you wanted a liquid rather than a solid perfume.

Essential Oils- good quality essential oils can be very expensive as they are pure distilled plant essences- especially Rose Maroc, Sandalwood, Violet leaf, and Oakmoss- and some are fairly obscure and would need to be sourced online- however it is always possible to find some nice smelling more common ones in your local shops. Relatively inexpensive oils which smell pleasant include: Neroli, Sweet Orange, Ginger, Vanilla, Grapefruit, Lemon, Geranium, Ylang Ylang, Francincense, Cedarwood, Jasmine, Chamomile, mint, and lavender.

A beautiful bottle to put your fragrance in! Do remember, oil based perfumes aren't really suitable for atomisers as the oil is too dense to spray and will only clog it all up. 

Method

Three quarter fill your bottle with your base oil.

Add drops of your essential oils to your base oil, shaking the bottle after every fresh application- it's best to be cautious with your oils as they are very strong, and even one drop too much can have a devastating effect on the final scent. Smell your concoction as you go along until you discover your perfect blend!

When you've got your perfect blend you can top up the bottle with a little more of your base oil if you like. This is fine as the perfume will smell a little stronger when it is applied to your skin, so this will mellow it out somewhat.

Hints and tips

Try to think of your finished perfume as a three dimensional object, a symphony, rather than a flat painting. You may already have heard of top notes, heart notes, and base notes- these are terms used by perfumers to describe the different layers of scent within a fragrance. 

In brief:

Top notes- these reach our sense of smell first, forming an initial first impression and then dissipating relatively quickly. Examples of common top notes include: Lemon, Mandarin, Neroli, Peppermint, grapefruit, teatree. Middle notes- these form the real "heart" of the fragrance and are commonly floral, imparting warmth and fullness. Common heart or middle notes include: Jasmine, Orange flower, geranium, Rose, Violet leaf, Melissa, Myrtle. Base notes- intense base notes evolve over time and remain when all the other smells have faded. They are heady, thick, sometimes mysterious, and often derived from barks, resins, saps and grasses. Some common base notes are: Sandalwood, Vanilla, Musks, Oakmoss, Cedarwood, Francincense, Ginger, Glove, Rosewood, Clove, Patchouli.

Natural Oil based perfumes are wonderfully therapeutic and don't contain any of the nasty parabens and other preservatives and sythetic extenders etc. that are too often found in commercial perfumes- however, this does mean that the fragrance doesn't always last quite as long on the skin. 

All is not lost though! Nature is a wonderful provider- and there are actually several essential oils which are able to act as natural "fixatives" or "extenders". So while you wouldn't want to put much into your finished product as they tend to be very pungent, a drop or two here and there can help to hold your scent, so that it is able to party (nearly!) as long as you are...

Some natural fixatives you may want to consider adding to your perfume are:

Sandalwood (Very popular, with good reason; woody, heady, seductive and smooth.)

Patchouli (Deep, spicy and musky; common in the 60's- perhaps a little "hippyish"!?)

Oris Root (woody, faint violet undertones)

Vetiver (earthy, woody, soothing)

Vanilla- (lovely, a very common base for commercial perfume, although of course these are usually synthetic, often blended with musks.)

Benzoin (sweet woods, undertones of vanilla and resin)

Cedarwood (gorgeous, fresh Christmas-tree type smell!)

Ylang Ylang (heady and floral, be sparing with this!)

Myrrh (exotic, heady, resinous, woody; use sparingly)

Francincense (woody, sappy, but lighter and fresher than many woody scents with almost floral undertones- very nice.)

Orange Oil to the Rescue! If you make a mistake and add a drop too much of one particular scent, you could try adding a drop or two of Orange Oil- as it's widely believed that Orange Oil has the unique qualities of being able to cancel out mistakes in perfumery somewhat, toning them down. Personally, I think there's some truth in this!

If you've got this far, well done for creating your own signature perfume!

Now all that remains is to name your creation...Will you call if after yourself, creating an eponymous perfume like Chanel No 5, or will you go for something a little more abstract and mysterious like "Angel" by Thierry Mugler or "Flowerbomb" by Viktor and Rolf (two of my favourites!)

Remember, perfumery is a complex art; actually in many ways it's more like a science- so don't worry if your first attempt isn't brilliant. There are thousands of different scents for you to choose from and mix together, so with perceverance you'll soon be able to create delicious fragrances for all your friends!