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Making Perfume Tip About Using Abbreviations for Descriptors

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  Making Perfume Tip About Using Abbreviations for Descriptors by  Anya McCoy  |  Oct 13, 2015  |  natural aromatics ,  natural perfumery course ,  Natural Perfumery Institute ,  raw materials of perfumery ,  study perfumery  |  0 comments Learn how to dilute aromatics, use a scale, and work with professional evaluation forms to record your impressions. Making Perfume: Perfume Shorthand Key to Comprehensive Descriptors for Organoleptic Evaluation Perfumers need a jolt, or a boost to the thinking process, to help them come up with a descriptive word for various aspects of a fragrance. When making modifications (aka mods) to choose the perfect perfume, it helps to have both the Aromatic Lexicon that I supply my students with, and the next step, a shorthand way to jot down those descriptive terms. The following shorthand key included in the textbook for  The Natural Perfumery Institute , (NPI) is valuable for this, and I’m sharing it here to pay it forward to those who need some help with