How to Make Perfume

The list of ingredients to make perfumes include:

  • The pure essential oils of one’s personal choice like lavender, sandalwood, rose,
  • Fixatives to maintain the fragrance for long time. Some common fixatives are Sandalwood, Vanilla, Benzoin, Balsam of Peru, Myrrh.
  • Alcohol that contains ethyl alcohol in greatest concentration is used for this purpose. One can use the alcohols such as vodka or 95 percent grain alcohol.
  • Eyedroppers for the concentration.
  • Bottles or jars for storage.

Perfumes are the blends of different fragrances that are usually extracted from essential oils. Making of perfumes is not a difficult task. With strong determination and correct formula, one can easily create fragranced perfumes.

Before proceeding, the first thing that one should keep in minds is the concentration of the perfume. Perfumes are very strong. The major content of perfumes are the essential oils, which are diluted with little amount of distilled water in an alcohol base.

Procedure:

Perfume

To start with mix ¼ cup of alcohol (vodka) with five ounces of essential oil of personal choice. While adding the essential oils, check the blend by smelling it every time with the notion of how changes occur with each ounce.

This could help one to modify the recipe in future. After getting satisfied with the smell, keep the mixture to stand for about forty eight hours. Add the fixatives (sandalwood). Fixatives help in depressing the rate of evaporation of the perfume.

Less concentration of fixatives is the main cause of loosing aroma with time. Check the concentration of the perfume. On getting satisfied with the blend, transfer it to the glass bottle and cover it tightly. Check the perfume within a time period of every two to three days. Instead of inhaling it directly, uncap the bottle and let the scent drift by creating zephyr with the movement of fingers over the top of the bottle.

On smelling the aroma, if one finds the need of adding essential oils, then add it with the help of eye dropper. Mix it well and leave it again to stand for two to three weeks. Once the perfume completes its aging and scent molecules nicely get blended within each other, it is ready to dilute.