Can you help me? I need two things from my readers. There will be a freebie gift for two helpful souls who reply, one for each subject. First: Back in late 2006, I stumbled across *fresh* ginger root essential oil at liberty natural. There were two - one from Madagascar, one from Indonesia. I immediately told my perfumery friends about it, and I used the fresh version in the kits for my students. Why the excitement? Fresh grated ginger - zest, fresh, hot, spicy fragrance Previously, the only ginger root oil available was from the peeled, sun-dried roots, and it was a middle note for perfumery. It had a mellow, soft fragrance, much like the dried ginger powder you get for baking purposes. This fresh ginger, on the other hand, smelled just like the fresh cut or grated root! Hot, spicy, wet, luscious, and a top note! I've used the aged, dried ginger EO, because it is valuable in perfumery and for food and drink purposes, but its soft character was just that, soft, c
In perfume classes do you learn how to tell what's in a perfume even if it is not a natural perfume? My sister has a perfume she likes but it's supposedly not made any longer and I was hoping I might eventually be able to replicate it to some degree using natural ingredients.
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ReplyDeleteIt takes years of experimentation, creating your scent memory, taking meticulous notes to aid in the process, before honing the ability to discern *all* of the notes - and even then 100% is elusive. There are websites with replicates of discontinued perfumes, and they might be your best option, although of course, they will not be using all-natural aromatics.
Oh, and the short answer to your question about whether you learn in a perfumery class to tell what's in a perfume? No.
HTH
Anya
Hi Anya,
ReplyDeleteGoing back to the UV light and sterilization.Can
those tiny little vials also be sterilized in
the same way as bigger bottles? I have lots of them so I wondered. And also the dropper.
Thank,
Denise
Hi Again,
ReplyDeleteI made it sound like the vials have droppers,which they don't. Just droppers in general.
Denise
I'm having a problem with percentages...when you need to make for example 6 bottles of 9 ml spray perfume, do you make your perfume recipe 6 times or multiply the ingredients x 6?
ReplyDeleteHi Denise
ReplyDeleteUV light is the proper sterilization for the bottles, vials, droppers. All outside surfaces of the droppers are sterilized, but don't confuse sterilization with cleaning, i.e., you have used the dropper already for some purpose. They cannot be reused/sterilized/cleaned.
HTH, xoxo
Anya
Hi Sororia:
ReplyDeleteSorry for the delay getting back to you, I'm having a bit of a headache, but I'll answer you now. If I understand you correctly, you need 6 bottles and they all hold 9 mls. Well, I'd make up a uniform mixture for uniformity of scent. Here's the tricky part: without knowing weight and specific gravity of the aromatics, you'll be working with drops, which can be very variable.
Using drops for making modifications of a perfume you're working on works well, but translating that into larger quantities and expecting the same effect can be tricky.
Let's take the most optimistic attitude and say your droppers are uniform, you apply identical pressure to each drop, and that you don't' get interrupted mid-count ;-)
You will make just one bottle of juice, multiplying the "formula" (not recipe) 6 times, including alcohol, that is a total of 54 mls, then, after aging and filtering, pour them into the 6 bottles.
I hope I answered this sufficiently. It's not the way I work, I use weight for accuracy, in case an aromatic "grows" if the proportions are changed from a single mod or bottle, when the ante is upped, in this case, to 6 bottles.
xoxo
Anya