Making Perfume: Working with Thick and Pasty Aromatics
by Anya McCoy | Sep 30, 2019 | Anya's Garden Perfumes , DIY , How to Make Perfume , natural aromatics , natural perfume , raw materials of perfumery | 10 comments Making Perfume: Working with Thick and Pasty Aromatics I have been working with perfumery aromatics since 1976 . That’s the year I began to seriously study perfumery with the aid of a few rare books and the assistance of two retired perfume industry sales representatives. I had already been collecting essential oils and absolutes for hippie fun, but that year I got serious about making perfume . At that time, I hadn’t come across labdanum, tonka bean absolute, myrrh, and some of the other thick and pasty aromatics. The thick ones, as I’ll call them from here out, are impossible to pour, or use with a dropper. When I did come across them, the perfume reps taught me about diluting * aromatics to work with them, both the thin, pourable stuff and especially the thick, difficult-to-work-with ones. *D