First of all, it is important to know how much my perfume bottle can hold before I add in my perfume notes (the combination of essential/fragrance oil).
As you can see, the bottles I bought were very tiny. Since the capacity was not written on no where, I'd have to find it out on my own.
A measuring cup would help. However, my measuring cup was not able tell me the capacity of the bottle directly because it could only measure a minimum of 50 ml.
So what I was going to do is to calculate how many bottles it'd take to fill up 50 ml as indicated by the measuring cup.
It ended up taking 4 little bottles to fill up 50 ml. From this I knew each bottle contains 12.5 ml because 50/4=12.5 .
Each perfume blend should contain 15% fragrance/essential oil. So 2 ml of notes were what I was looking for because 12.5 x 15%= 1.87 .
Since 1 ml is equal to 20 drops, I multiplied 1.87 by 20 and got the number of 36. Hence, my perfume should contain 36 drops of perfume oil. And the rest of the bottle would be filled with carrier oil (the grape seed oil I've got).
*My first perfume is already made, stay tuned for my next blog!*
Your blog is making me want to make my own perfume because it looks really interesting and there seems to be so many different ways to make it. I also really like how you are listing all the ingredients because it gives the reader a good idea of what goes into the perfume. Hurrah!! I look forward to smelling the different perfumes that you end up making:)
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