Make your own perfume

France is the perfume country. In France, perfumers spend 6 months to 3 years to create a beautifully balanced perfume. Sometimes as many as 50 to 100 scents are incorporated into a perfume. An easier perfume contains about 10 to 20 scents

By combining different aromas (essential oils and perfumes), you create wonderful scents. In perfumes the different 'notes' are very important. For this, look at the chapter in the infusion manual: mixing scents (tones or notes). After the notes are also the scent groups and the scents that can be combined with each other.

You can also make your own perfume with the Beauty & Care perfume oils.
Use the desired perfume oils and/or essential oils and add them to our perfume alcohol.
Use 24 ml of pure perfume oil and 76 ml in a 100 ml bottle of perfume alcohol for an eau de perfume. Add 10 to 15 ml of pure perfume oil, 10 ml of water and 76 to 80 ml of perfume alcohol for an eau de toilette.
Put the mixture in a spray bottle and enjoy your own perfume.
Do not put this bottle in your bag to prevent leaks.

Please read this information carefully before you start making your own perfume.

Five reasons to combine scents when you make your own perfume

1. To obtain a wonderful scent composition
2. To weaken a strong scent or enhance a weak scent
3. To give a scent extra meaning, such as Orange with Rose Musk or other oriental scents to make a wonderful perfume for women.
4. To make a more expensive fragrance affordable
5. To obtain complimentary effects

Choose for a relaxing scent, notes with relaxing properties.
Use this to compose the most important part of the mixture, such as: 1 drop of Orange with 6 drops of Lavender and 3 drops of Ylang Ylang.

Start by combining 2 to 3 scents to make it a bit easier for yourself.
Any scent added to the mixture can make or break a scent.

	Fragrances that suit men Wood scents, spices and fresh scents.
	Fragrances that suit women Floral, citrus, sweet and warm scents.

Compose

Use between 2 and 5 oils to make your own simple eau de toilette or eau de perfume. Use 1 or 2 top notes, 1 or 2 heart notes and 1 or 2 base notes.

Because it remains difficult to compose your own scent, it is useful to get an impression of your composition in advance.

For this you need:

1. Your chosen scents
2. Perfume alcohol
3. Demi water
4. Cotton swabs
5. Plastic bags
6. Bottle
7. Label
8. A notepad and a pen

Place a few drops of each scent on a cotton swab and then place the cotton swabs together in a plastic bag. Close it with a little air in it. Leave the mixture on a radiator or other heat source for a while and then smell the bag to see if you like the composition. Then adjust where necessary. Remember that it is not necessary, and often not even desirable, to use the same amount of each scent, so experiment with that.

For example, use 2 cotton swabs with scent x and only 1 cotton swab with scent Y and Z or other combinations. Write down the number of drops per scent in a notepad so that you remember what you did later. If your perfume is too fresh, add some base note, if it is too heavy, add some heart or top notes. For a perfumer, this is why scents are sorted by notes. At the top are the top notes, on a middle shelf the heart notes and at the bottom the base notes. A good perfume smells as one whole. The whole could be described as floral, spicy, oriental, etc.

If you are satisfied with the composition, create an eau de toilette or eau de perfume in a nice perfume bottle. Put a label on the bottle so that you know what scent is in the bottle.

	Eau Fraiche An Eau Fraiche is the least concentrated with 1 - 3% essential oils or perfumes and is diluted in demineralized water and a smaller percentage of alcohol. You can smell this scent on the skin for 1 to 2 hours. These are used more in the summer and at work to get a nice scent on the skin. An Eau Fraiche is ideal if you don't like a heavy perfume. It's also perfect for people with sensitive skin due to the low alcohol and perfume content. In addition, an Eau Fraiche is often cheaper than an Eau de Cologne, Eau de toilette and Eau de Parfum.
	Eau de Cologne An eau de cologne contains 10 to 15% water, 2 - 6% essential oils or perfumes and 79 - 88% alcohol. This scent remains on the skin for about 2 hours. This makes the cologne a great option if you go out in the evening. This is why young people often choose an Eau de Cologne. An Eau de cologne usually contains fresh, light scents with citrus oils.
	Eau de Toilette An eau de toilette consists of approximately 10% demineralized water, 10 - 15% essential oils or perfumes and 75 - 80% perfume alcohol. An eau de toilette is usually worn by men because an eau de perfume is often too strong for men. This scent should smell wonderful for about 2 to 4 hours. Because the scent is less strong than an Eau de Parfum, an Eau de Toilette is often cheaper than an Eau de Parfum. Eau de Toilette is often recommended twice a day if you want to continue smelling the scent longer.
	Eau de Parfume An eau de perfume consists of approximately 24% essential oil and perfume oil and 76% perfume alcohol. Women usually use an eau de perfume because otherwise the scent does not last long enough for women. This scent should smell wonderful for about 4 to 8 hours.
	Parfume or Extract This is the strongest possible form of spraying a perfume on the skin. A perfume or extract consists of 20 - 40% essential oil and perfume oil and 60 - 80% perfume alcohol. This scent should smell wonderful for about 6 to 10 hours, depending on the skin type. People with sensitive skin especially benefit from a perfume or extract because the alcohol percentage is not that high and therefore dries out the skin less quickly.

Ready and spray! Preferably spray the eau de toilette or eau de perfume into the air and then walk through it. This way the scent does not come directly on the skin and you are surrounded by your own scent. Mix the mixture with a carrier oil instead of perfume alcohol if you want to use it on your skin. Then use 10 drops of your oil mixture on 30 ml of base oil.