• Perfume longery

    Posted by quangphu1301 on March 6, 2017 at 6:56 am

    hi everyone
    I’m learning to make handmade perfume, and my perfume just can last about 4-10hrs (mostly about 4-6…), my ingredients is quite simple : essential oils (or fragrance oils) and absolute alcohol (99%)

    do you know how to make it last longer? I heard about perfume fixatives (both natural and synthetic) but I dont know which one is good for beginner like me.
    johnb replied 7 years ago 5 Members · 10 Replies
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  • crisbaysauli

    Member
    March 6, 2017 at 9:17 am

    hi @quangphu1301. would you mind telling us how much essential oil you are adding in your formula?

  • johnb

    Member
    March 6, 2017 at 10:25 am

    There is a huge amount more in the creation of perfumes than mixing essential oils together.

    Perfumers train for many years before they are able to create an item that can be described as a perfume (and not a random mixture of essentail oils and odorous chemicals).

    Bearing that in mind, it is not possible to state which fixative you should use.

    4-10 hours, I would think, is long enough for a perfume to last on the skin.

  • quangphu1301

    Member
    March 7, 2017 at 5:27 pm

    @johnb yes I agree, I’m just a beginner and I’m willing to learn more about perfumery, but its quite hard in my country to do it, so I have to “self-educate”
    do u have any advice about how to do it or some good source to learn perfumery ? thanks

  • quangphu1301

    Member
    March 7, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    @crisbaysauli about 15-20%

  • beautynerd

    Member
    March 7, 2017 at 7:55 pm

    @quangphu1301

    You may find this forum helpful http://www.basenotes.net/forum.php

  • quangphu1301

    Member
    March 8, 2017 at 3:02 am

    @EliseCortes thanks, I joined that forum already ^^ so many good information

  • crisbaysauli

    Member
    March 8, 2017 at 7:45 am

    @quangphu1301 this is a very high oil content. It would help a lot if you can learn more on the process of aging etc. I’m not a perfumist but I heard there is a process of aging for perfumes, just like the process of fermenting alcoholic beverages to make them taste better over time.

  • quangphu1301

    Member
    March 8, 2017 at 5:16 pm

    @crisbaysauli yes I have to let it age for 4 to 6 months

  • drbobverdient-biz

    Member
    March 13, 2017 at 8:04 pm

    try encapsulation perhaps cyclodextrin

  • johnb

    Member
    March 15, 2017 at 3:17 pm

    try encapsulation perhaps cyclodextrin

    ????

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