Anya's Garden Perfumes + The Natural Perfumery Institute

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, po...

  Helpful tools for perfumemaking by  Anya McCoy  |  Jul 29, 2019  |  Anya's Garden Perfumes ,  Ask the Perfumer ,  How to Make Perfume ,  natural perfumery course ,  Natural Perfumery Institute ,  raw materials of perfumery  |  3 comments Essentials pictured above very useful, but not an exhaustive list represented here in this photo. More perfumemaking tools are shown below in this post. PHOTO: stainless steel tray for surface protection when pouring, filling bottles, etc. Stainless steel measuring cups and spoons. Borosilicate beakers, stainless steel funnels, stainless potato ricer for straining botanicals from alcohol tincture. Stainless steel strainers when filtering tinctures. Thermometers for heating materials. Graduated cylinders, droppers, and offset spatula for enfleurage lids. Not pictured: stainless steel bowls, filter papers. It’s not just beakers, and pipettes and scales, there are many interesting and inexp...