Making Your Own Perfume
Part I of a Multi Part Series - Like many perfume professionals, you can start with materials found close to your very own house then work your way up to new materials and more advanced techniques! - The history of perfume goes back 1000's of years. While manufactured perfumes can have been so pricey that only the rich could afford them, regular people if they happened to live in tropics or temperate zone regions could enjoy the fragrance of flower gardens and frequently flowers will be planted alongside a door or under a window in order that a light breeze could fill the home with their fragrance.
Today very top quality perfume can be bought at a very inexpensive price. But you may also make your very own perfume using fragrant materials which are broadly available, just like people have done in the past. Making Your Own Perfume - At Different Skill Levels - Making one's own perfume can involve many levels of skill, technical knowledge, and creative commitment. You may be a hobbiest perfumer, you can become a perfumer for money Or, if you find that you really have a strong love for perfumes and creative ability, you can train yourself becoming a true perfumer creator, creating your very own beautiful, original fragrances from professional grade materials.
Sources of Perfume Materials - The most elementary source of materials to create a perfume is your very own garden. Flowers, of course, will provide material for your perfume. But do not overlook other, not so obvious, fragrant materials. Use your nose. Pine needles and pine cones have a distinctive fragrance. The leaves and bark of trees have an aroma. The oil from the peels of citrus fruits have aromas. Sap from a wounded tree has an aroma. Seeds and nuts have an aroma. Every one of those materials are utilized by professional perfumers! - Right now, however, you will not be capable to use some of those materials for your perfume because you'll have no way of extracting the fragrant oils from the materials themselves.
This required a bit of technology. But, for the moment, you could work with fragrant flowers and some of the materials mentioned above. Making A Simple Perfume From - Materials You've Gathered Yourself - If you do an internet search under the phrase making your very own perfume from garden flowers, you will find a number of web sites with formulas to transform your garden flowers into perfumed water. The fundamentals go like this: Collect your flower material flower petals for the simplest perfumes, flower petals, leaves along with other materials for a more complicated aroma. ADULT SUPERVISION REQUEST - Clean out a screw top jar like the one shown in the pictures. Salsa jars seem to be a good option as they've especially wide necks.
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