Since I didn't really get the "fruity sweet smell" I wanted form my first product, I decided to make another one with fragrance oils, hoping for a better result. This time my goal is to create an elegant, honeyed perfume with the newly bought home fragrance oils.
This time I'll ignore the rules of perfumery and disregard the properties and orders of the "top, mid, bottom notes". Let's see what will happen if I simply blend three different fragrance oils together!
The previous fragrance oils I bought were the ones with rich saturated color. Since they were products on sale, their qualities were relatively bad. They smelled artificial, unpleasant and sour, almost like the medicine children take while they're ill.
Since they wouldn't even blend with the Grapeseed Oil, I doubt if these colored liquid were truly "oil" or just some kind of "flavored pigment water". The result was especially gross, it smelled really strange and the liquid was dull.
Essential Oil Blend(L) Poor Quality Fragrance Oil Blend(R)
Here are the new home fragrance oils I bought. When I entered the store, testing and picking the scents I wanted, a staff warned me that I shouldn't use fragrance oil to make perfume because it may cause redness and irritation due to the concentrated chemicals in the oil. However, there are many tutorials out there say that it's totally fine to make your own perfume with fragrance oil. The only thing you shouldn't forget is to add in the carrier oil or alcohol to dilute the highly concentrated oil for skin application. As I'm not going to apply the perfume directly onto my skin, it should be totally safe to continue on my product two making process.
No Joke! These fragrance oils smell really good!
From left to right: Japanese Cherry Blossom, Marshmallow Fireside and Lemon Citron
Although they are all artificial flavors, they smell much better than the essential oils. Even though they do not have a refreshing, natural scent, they are what we consider "smells-good, fruity and sexy". Afterwards, I realized that our perception of scent is actually shaped by our memories and experiences. For example, I consider most of the herbal fragrance unpleasant because it reminds me the taste of the Traditional Herbal Medicine I took when I was small. Some people might have a different feeling toward herbal fragrance since they didn't share the same experience as me.
I like how you chose to ignore the rules! You're not using any dangerous chemicals, so why not mixing whatever you feel like. Also, good hypothesis on why previous fragrance oils would not mix with grapeseed oil.
ReplyDeleteDo you think you could use a slightly bigger font for your last paragraph? Its content is very important since you are addressing the perception of smell according to memories.
Have you considered infusing things like lavender, so getting the real plant or dried lavender and letting it sit in a plane oil to see it it will take on the fragrance. Also have you thought of labeling or what it would look like in a marketing sense. Also what kind names would you give each fragrance because I think It would be cool to name each fragrance after your memory. Cant wait to see the final product! Good luck
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