How to Make Perfume Course 

Everything you need to know about formulating perfumes

This fully-comprehensive instructional guide has been carefully compiled using our knowledge and experience of over 20 years.  You will learn about the history of perfume and how it has influenced style and mood from ancient times and still today. You will study natural and synthetic ingredients used in perfume making, their benefits, what they are for and why they are used.  

Delve into the world of beautiful aromatic oils, identify top, middle and base notes and how to structure a perfume.  Identity different aroma-family classifications and perfume compounds. Taking the role of a 'nose' we analyse top brands of perfume to see how they are formulated and what makes them so popular and successful.

You will become skilled at layering and blending techniques and use these to create a variety of stunning, unusual and breathtakingly beautiful scents.

Contents:

Safety & precautionary advice
The history of perfume
Cult & contemporary perfumes
Key perfume making ingredients
Blending with essential oils, fragrance oils and aroma chemicals 
Natural versus synthetic ingredients
Fragrance families
Top, middle and base notes
Blending techniques
Diluting your blend
A nose and the power of smell
Mood enhancing qualities of oils
Commercial perfumes analysed
Getting the best from your perfume
Packaging your perfume
Ingredients information for labels
Allergen information 
IFRA restrictions 
IFRA classes 
Calculating percentages of components in your blend 

Whilst we don't specifically focus on organic ingredients should you wish to substitute an ingredient - for example lavender oil for its organic version, you are completely at liberty to do so. 

Format:

Beautifully formatted, fully illustrated PDF files.

After purchasing you will be sent an email with links to access, download and save the documents.

By purchasing this electronic download you are deemed to have accepted our Terms and Conditions. 

 

"Can I really make a business out of making and selling products?"  Click here to see a list of businesses set up by Plush Folly students.

You may also be interested in our separately available Perfume Deluxe kit - receive 15% off the deluxe kit if purchasing at the same time as this course.  Use coupon code Deluxe15%