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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

Making Perfume with a Shorthand Key of Descriptors by  Anya McCoy  |  Mar 30, 2015  |  natural perfumery course ,  Natural Perfumery Institute ,  study perfumery  |  1 comment In 2007, when I launched  my perfumery course   on the Internet, I put together an expansive, detailed series of forms, charts, and educational materials to assist my students in their studies. There are organoleptic evaluation forms, an aromatic lexicon, several Excel worksheets, and much more. One way to help students quickly and easily jot down scent impressions was a reference sheet I call the Shorthand Key to Comprehensive Descriptors for Organoleptic Evaluations. The Key is designed to allow the perfumer to use three-letter references for scent properties. Some “full terms” the perfumer is familiar with, and some “shorthand” key terms: The inspiration for the Key came from a similar resource in the book  An Introduction to Perfumery  by Tony Curtis and David. G. Williams. I wrote to the publishers, Micelle