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Creating
Your Own Scent
You
will need:
- a small
vial or bottle
- a notecard
- your
collection of oils
- droppers
- your
nose & an open mind
Let
your nose be your guide and keep these hints in mind:
- Arrange
your oils from heaviest to lightest.
- Heavier
or base notes (cinn, patchouli, sandalwood, oakmoss,
van.) Ground or stabablize an aroma. This generally
makes up a very small proportion of an entire blend.
- Middles
notes or bridge notes (i.e. Lavender, geranium,
chamomile, will make up the general note. Base notes
and high notes are accents.
- High
Notes or top notes (peppermint, citruses, rosemary,
eucalyptus) are the bright note used sometimes to
cut a sweetness or another note that needs to be
toned down.
- When
smelling geranium for the first time, I hated it
and wouldn’t use it for blending. I found
that was because whenever I used geranium it overpowered
everything else and it can be very cloying. But
used in very small quantites it can add a green-floral
note to a bright or lively aroma.
Try
blending the following oils, careful to sniff after
each addition. Try sniffing after only 5 drops of
sandalwood.
Example
blend:
- 3 drops
patchouli, (base)
- 10
drops sandalwood (middle note)
- 5 drops
vanilla (sweetens the middle)
- 2 drops
Lavender (mellows out the blend)
Note your
comments, date and all proportions on your cards.
I have created some real stinkers, that after blending
for a few days, weeks, and even years have turned
out to be exquisite aroma. Then only to find that
I couldn’t duplicate it! I still have a bottle
of a blend that I created almost 8 years ago, there
is only a ¼ oz or less left in the bottle but,
it is truly divine. I have wasted hundreds of dollars
trying to duplicate it, to no satisfactory result.
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