Been doing research off and on, reading books, collecting fragrances, for a few months now and I've made a hand full of scents that the people I've shared them with have seemed to enjoy. but I haven't really spoken with it about it aside from friends and family.
Any one else do this shit?
cool story, Jean-Baptiste
Do you use natural extracts or use chemistry?
I use both. I think the natural extracts, compounds and resins are super nice but there are some scents they just can't recreate.
I just got a new order in for some aldehyde and other chemicals to make a oceanic fragrance.
Sometimes I catch skunkoids and bring them indoors
sounds pretty cool
I've considered making cosmetics for my wife, stuff like hyaluronic acid creams, it's just measuring and mixing most of the time
tell us what you do to make a perfume
It depends mostly. It's a decent amount of theory crafting, and research. sometimes just imagining what scents will go well with others. When I like an idea I will pull out my excel sheet start listing the scents I want in it and begin measuring between base, mids and high notes. then mix it into the prescribed alcohol amount, I like to keep things at around 10-15% saturation.
This is a formula for one i made most recently and really enjoy, it's a lovely fresh and woody scent.
all measurements are in grams btw. i had to get a scientific scale to measure this shit in the thousandsths place.
Know any good starting resources?
I've been making "solid cologne" using supplies from perfumers apprentice. Need to get some high test Everclear to make spray Been on the search for my perfect stank using "essential oils". Search for the site if you've never been there good resources and material supplies. Would love to play scratch & sniff, can buy in small test size amounts for going in blind.
I use perfume supply house a lot of times to get chemicals and a nice thing about them is that the lady who runs it will give free samples on larger orders. Everclear would work but I tend to just go ahead and buy the denatured perfumers alcohol.
essential oils are nice but I would say don't be afraid to go into absolutes or extracts.
have always wanted to try this, but I'm especially interested in distilling oils/hydrosols. do you do that, and can you recommend any resources on it or general perfume?
I don't actually. That sounds super interesting though.
Try chat gpt in all honesty, it may provide technique ideas which you can use.
as for general perfumery i've been reading the book of perfumes and It's provided some nice insight to older civilizations and their usage of perfumes. which is actually kind of fun seeing the importance that they placed on smelling good.
I would also say maybe look to fragrantica as a reference for what people have done in the past and to get ideas of what yo would like to do.
again for discovery purposes I use GPT to figure out which chemicals smell like what so i'm not stumbling around completely blind.
fart in a can
where do I deposit sample ?
No, but I think it would be super cool tbh to make some as a fancy Christmas present.
Got any resources you can share for those of us that might want to learn?
We need to know if there is a way to make a legit version of this that isn't liable to oxidize and ruin the good scrotum smell.
I have a lab in my garage where I make essential oils and cosmetics. I tinker with perfumes but I never thought of how to sell them well outside of coming up with some smell that no one has ever done before.
Ultimately I don’t think it’s enough to just mix and match oils and scents because the big boys have been doing it for a while and have come up with a lot more combinations of stuff that they presumably market test. I just don’t know how to make money off it. But I love distilling
damn even OP wont reply to his own thread? rip.