Blending experiments

Mr.P

Mr.P

oud<3er
The last 2 months I’ve been dedicating myself pretty much wholeheartedly to evaluating fragrances, gathering various samples and creating standard delusions of my preferred materials for perfume making.

After years of only casual blending, I’ve started to take a systematic approach. Kind of tedious to get started and maintain but it’s fascinating now that I’m doing it and I’m achieving some success which heartening.

I’ve been working on an amber type fragrance - vanilla/labdanum core and a total of only 8 ingredients.

Things become crazily complicated as you move beyond simple pairs and start looking at combining 3 or more materials. I actually find the idea of making some 25 part perfume incredibly daunting and as I’ve started to look at the problem more closely, I’ve had to adjust my thinking a few times.

Anyway, after a few weeks of all kinds of dabbling i have an amber blend that fits my olfactory system like a glove. My 18 yo daughter has a good nose (settled on etro sandalo as her favorite ❤️ followed by zino davidoff) and she said she wanted a bottle and would wear this amber as her main fragrance! Anyway it is nice to have a little success.
 
mesOUD

mesOUD

Resident Artisan
Mr.P said:
The last 2 months I’ve been dedicating myself pretty much wholeheartedly to evaluating fragrances, gathering various samples and creating standard delusions of my preferred materials for perfume making.

After years of only casual blending, I’ve started to take a systematic approach. Kind of tedious to get started and maintain but it’s fascinating now that I’m doing it and I’m achieving some success which heartening.

I’ve been working on an amber type fragrance - vanilla/labdanum core and a total of only 8 ingredients.

Things become crazily complicated as you move beyond simple pairs and start looking at combining 3 or more materials. I actually find the idea of making some 25 part perfume incredibly daunting and as I’ve started to look at the problem more closely, I’ve had to adjust my thinking a few times.

Anyway, after a few weeks of all kinds of dabbling i have an amber blend that fits my olfactory system like a glove. My 18 yo daughter has a good nose (settled on etro sandalo as her favorite ❤️ followed by zino davidoff) and she said she wanted a bottle and would wear this amber as her main fragrance! Anyway it is nice to have a little success.
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I bet it is amazing
 
Mr.P

Mr.P

oud<3er
I’m not so sure but it would be nice if so. I think the top note needs just a little bit more work - I can imagine people finding the opening a little bit too rustic, but then enjoying the dry down, so i need to add something short lasting that will fit with the theme. Either sweet or dry in some different way.

The question for someone delving into this becomes: to what degree does anybody share my taste?
 
Mr.P

Mr.P

oud<3er
Of course, after sleeping on it, I can see four or five things I want to tweak. I don’t know how people ever know when they’re done with these things. It’s very hard to maintain an objective perspective because the more you smell it the more your perception is changed. Like castingshadows found with the areej oils. The challenge I guess is to make a perfume that smells sublime once you’ve gotten used to it, but also doesn’t smell too weird before you’ve acclimated. Strange aspect of a very interesting and challenging process
 
Mr.P

Mr.P

oud<3er
I’m on iteration number 15 of the amber now… I will need to take a day or two off and come back to these to sort them out.

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Sproaty

Sproaty

Sproudy
Staff member
Mr.P said:
Of course, after sleeping on it, I can see four or five things I want to tweak. I don’t know how people ever know when they’re done with these things. It’s very hard to maintain an objective perspective because the more you smell it the more your perception is changed. Like castingshadows found with the areej oils. The challenge I guess is to make a perfume that smells sublime once you’ve gotten used to it, but also doesn’t smell too weird before you’ve acclimated. Strange aspect of a very interesting and challenging process
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"perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away, not more to add"....or something like that!
 
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