Making your own perfume

Anyone tried making your own perfume? Are there any resources you would recommend to learn how or any perfume supply shops in the eu where i can get the materials to make my own perfume? eg. peakers, measuring thingies, perfume oils and whatever liquid mixtures. I wonder if being self taught would be possible to make complex fragrances like the niche houses

I've tried, not very successfully. I have plans to start up again but the time and money investments are extreme. I'd recommend buying the following supplies:

1. A scale that can measure 1/100ths of a gram accurately
2. Latex gloves
3. Lots and lots of one-time-use plastic pipettes
4. A few glass beakers
5. Test strips

In terms of ingredients, the first instinct is to just use essential oils, but this limits you very very much. You can get a few just to see what they smell like, and mix them for fun, but it won't smell like an actual perfume, more like a candle or room fragrance (and that's if you get really good). The trick for me was looking up actual fragrance/accord formulas on The Good Scents Company, or even buy fragrance formulas from companies like Labtorium that seek to recreate famous ones. You will see the ratios used, and the more common aromachemicals like ambroxan, ISO E Super, hedione, etc., and get an insight into how to do it yourself. Reading formulas for a budding perfumer is like reading sheet music for a composer.

Oh...well...It take years and years of studying to become a perfumer...Real perfumers are scientists that study chemistry first, only after that they can be taught to become a perfumer in a perfume-lab. 

So...I think it can't be more than just a hobby I'm afraid...a nice one though .

Na, there are loads of self-taught perfumers who make it into a business. Andy Tauer, Boris Zrnic, Michael Salazar are just the ones I know off the top of my head.

Manuel Cross was a chef for 25 years. Founder and perfumer at Rogue Perfumery.

Im so happy to hear this! Maybe i have a chance at making a my own line of perfumes

I can't speak of sources for ingredients in the EU (though I have heard of some, but cannot remember them). In the US there is The Perfumer's Apprentice. You can obtain educational kits, ingredients, and tools from them. https://shop.perfumersapprenti... . There is also the Perfumers Supply House where you can obtain ingredients https://perfumersupplyhouse.co.... A search for perfume ingredients or perfume supply may lead to a source closer to you. Or, you could see if one of these two will ship to the EU.

Oh really?? Didn't know that! 

But im wondering if I want to create something with many layers how does that even work? Do you make the base notes a higher dosage for example?

The way perfumes are marketed vs the way they are made is very different. A fragrance is made as a combination of a few "accords," which are almost fully fledged "fragrances" in their own right - they have larger molecules that last longer and smaller more volatile molecules that fade quickly. The ratios within each accord are of course determined by the perfumer, but usually it's a good idea to put less of a powerful aromachemical, for example, beta-damascone, compared to a chemical that is weaker, for example, phenethyl alcohol. Both are sweet rose scents, but I'd go with a 20-1 or even 100-1 ratio for both aromachemicals' character to come out and blend well together.

Those are great resources! I don't know if it's available in the EU but if it is, I recommend The Nose Training Kit from Cirrus Parfum. It has samples of the most common perfume chemicals like hedione, iso e super, etc. for you to sniff and become familiar with. 

omg this just went right over my head hahahahaha it makes me feel so uneducated

I have worked in Lush Kitchen in the past and inspired by that I have tried making some DIY solid perfumes, perfume oils and scented skincare products. In Finland we have a wonderful DIY natural cosmetics webstore called LimePop that sells ingredients and equipment and seems that they ship almost everywhere in EU: https://www.limepop.fi/epages/...

guys i found this video!!! Its very helpful. Like a perfume making for dummies haha

"light" molecules float off the skin first and arrive at your nose first. Those are the "top" notes. "heavy" molecules arrive later. Those are middle or base notes. Temperature-dependent molecules have to be warmed up before they will volatilize into the air. Those can arrive a minute to as long as an hour later, depending on how long they take to evaporate. That's why a good "gym scent" will only smell good after you start working out and warm up. It's also why there are "winter fragrances" and "summer fragrances." And why a scent that smells awesome as a hand soap, used in 60 degree water, may be awful as a laundry soap, where the fragrance will end up in the dryer, and horrifying as a candle, where it will reach the ignition point of beeswax.