Make INFINITE, great smelling perfumes (using PERFUME BASES)

Sam Macer www.youtube.com

Brief Summary

This video is all about using perfume bases to create good-smelling perfumes easily. Perfume bases are like generic perfumes that you can build on. They help you experiment with raw materials and get a nice scent without the perfume smelling like absolute.

  • Perfume bases are designed to represent a perfume.
  • They should be neutral, perform well, and be simple.
  • Using perfume bases makes perfumery more fun and creative.

Intro

The video starts with a common problem: you mix a bunch of perfume ingredients hoping for a masterpiece, but it smells terrible. The solution is to use perfume bases, which allow you to create many nice-smelling perfumes on your first or second try. This method helps you use raw materials to get the smells you want while ensuring the perfume smells good overall.

What are perfume bases?

Perfume bases, also known as "workhorse bases," are designed to represent a perfume. A base in perfumery is a short formula for part of a perfume, like an accord or a raw material. Perfume bases are different because they encapsulate the structure of a perfume, acting like a generic perfume you can build on. Think of it as a black and white drawing that you later color in.

Key characteristics of perfume bases:

  • Neutral: They shouldn't smell too strongly of one specific thing.
  • Performance: They should last long and be diffusive.
  • Simplicity: The simpler, the better.

A great example is Sophia Grossman's accord, made of only four raw materials but used in countless perfumes.

The anatomy of a perfume base

To create effective perfume bases, choose raw materials with the desired characteristics. Good categories include:

  • Iso E Super: Long-lasting and diffusive.
  • Hedione: Pleasant, diffusive, and neutral.
  • Ambroxan: Very long-lasting and diffusive (use sparingly).
  • Musks: Extremely long-lasting and generally liked.
  • Irones and Damascones: Strong and add diffusion.
  • Woody Ambers: Like Amber Extreme and Cedramber.
  • Salicylates: Good for floral compositions.
  • Vanillin and Derivatives: Adds sweetness.

Using combinations of these materials can help you achieve a nice-smelling base that performs well. You might want to create a few different bases for various contexts, like a lighter, fresher one and a darker, woodier one.

Perfume bases in action

The presenter shares a perfume base formula he improvised, called "Dusk Bass," made with ambrofix, ethylene brassylate, herbalide, hedione, timber silk, and veritraldehyde. He then adds a small amount of Black Agar Givco 215 base (an oud recreation) to it. The result is a dark, mysterious scent that he loves and would wear as a perfume.

He also experiments with the Grossman accord (iso E super, hedione, alpha isomethyl ionone, and galaxolide) by adding pink pepper. This creates a spicy scent, demonstrating how adding a single raw material can significantly change the perfume.

The presenter also discusses bases inspired by Sarah McCartney, using her "Sexy Scent on the Planet" and "Magical Mystery Material" as examples. He adds mintonat to his rendition of "Sexy Scent on the Planet," creating a unique woody side to the perfume. For "Magical Mystery Material," he adds violif, resulting in a strong, green scent.

Summary

Perfume bases offer several benefits:

  • Efficiency: You can make a large batch and quickly create perfumes by adding a few raw materials.
  • Learning: You become familiar with the base scent and can easily notice the effects of added materials.
  • Unique Signature: Creating your own base allows you to develop a unique perfume DNA.

The presenter recommends making perfume bases at a 20% concentration to maintain an eau de parfum concentration in your final product. Overall, using perfume bases makes perfumery easier, more fun, and more creative.

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0:00 have you ever had an idea for a perfume you thought this is gonna turn out great let's just take some of this some of that i don't know maybe some some lemon cement some some chocolate some coffee some uh calorin some lavender and you know i want the perfume to smell like that so let's just put all of those things together and we're going to make a perfume and it's going to be an absolute masterpiece it's going to smell amazing so you tip all the things in you put them all together and then you go and smell it and you think this smells like absolute well if that sounds like you firstly don't worry because it happens to a lot of people and also you happen to me quite a lot too and then secondly watch to the end of this video because in this video i'm going to share with you a method which you can use to create almost infinite combinations of pretty good pretty nice

0:46 smelling perfumes on your first or second try and it's going to allow you to go and use the raw materials and get the rough kind of smells you want in your perfume while at the same time having the perfume remaining smelling quite nice overall that method is the use of what i like to call perfume bases so if you're interested in finding out all about how you can use these for yourself then definitely watch the end of the video and you'll find out exactly how you can use this technique in your perfumery okay then so what is a perfume base well a lot of people like to call these workhorse bases i like to call them perfume bases because well that's pretty much what they are they are bases which are designed to represent a perfume so if you don't already know a base in perfumery is essentially a short formula

1:33 for part of your perfume or a short formula which when taken together can represent something like an accord or a raw material so if you went to make an orange base for example you would have your raw materials that mixed together to go and smell like orange and then you have the certain amounts required to go and make that in that exact ratio that you penned that base at and then you can go and make that base as much as you want to get that exact same smell that's what a base is what makes perfume bases different from just regular bases is well they're designed to encapsulate the structure of a perfume so what you can kind of think of these as is like a generic perfume which you then go and build on top of it's almost like a black and white drawing from one of those coloring books and then later you go and fill in the colors the kind of

2:18 actual composition the structure the drawing is already there but you can go and then personalize it afterwards to make it exactly how you want so characteristics of these perfume bases which you should be looking for firstly you want to make it quite neutral and that similar to our analogy with the coloring book is that you start off with a black and white drawing you don't start with something that's already been colored in and that's because you want to let the person doing the coloring and choose which colors they want to use so in our perfume bases we don't want to make them smell too strongly like one specific thing rather we just want to have a general pleasant smell which can then kind of be used in lots of different perfumes and depending what we add to it later it will completely transform the perfume into the character of those little things we add on at the end the other

3:05 thing about these perfume bases is we want them to perform well so what we mean by performing well in perfumery is things like we want them to last a long time because often people want their perfumes to last a long time and we want them to be diffusive for example because often a lot of people want you to actually notice a perfume from a distance rather than only if you go and smell it really close to the skin another thing about these bases is the simpler the better an excellent exemplification in my opinion of this is the grossman accord created by sophia grossman now this is one of the most famous accords in perfumery and it is used by countless perfumers all over the world to make a multitude of perfumes essentially their perfume is often composed a large part of this core grossman accord and then other things

3:50 are added on top of it which is pretty much exactly what i'm saying we should do in this video so the grossman accord is very simple it's only made up of four raw materials and you can go check out my video on the garmin accord if you haven't already and in that video i walk you through making one for yourself but in essence the grosmann accord simply consists of hedione isoe super alpha isomethyl iron and galaxolide that's only four raw materials yet the garage matter chord is used in countless perfumes all over the world in a minute we're gonna go and actually look at some examples of these perfume bases which i've got right here but firstly i want to give you a general anatomy of these perfume bases so you know how to construct them for yourself now it should come as no surprise that we're going to achieve these characteristics by choosing raw materials in the first place which already possess these characteristics so i'm going to go through a list of the

4:36 categories or the types of raw material which are perfect for these perfume bases so firstly there's isoe super and it's different variants i did a video on iso super last week so if you're interested about variants then go check out that video and you'll find out all about those so there's actually super that's quite long-lasting it's diffusive most people find it quite nice and then also hedion is another one so hedeon and also there's this hedion hc variant so a lot of people again find this pleasant it's quite diffusive and it's long lasting and at the same time it's quite neutral it seems to blend well with most things and not add too much character to your perfume but most of the time just add a kind of impact then as well as that we've also got ambroxan now ambroxan again is one with different variants you've got things

5:22 like ambrofix ambrox super but essentially this molecule i find is very long lasting a lot of people like it you find it all over the place in a commercial perfumes well actually that's true for all of these things here um and it's also quite diffusive so often you can notice it from a bit of a distance away so be careful with ambroxan because it's actually very strong and you usually don't need to use that much of it then as well as that we've got the whole category of musks pretty much um musks aren't always so diffusive but sometimes they can be however they usually are extremely long lasting and also most people really do like musky scents so again it's ticking quite a lot of these boxes then after that we have the iron owns and the damascus both of these are really quite strong quite powerful raw

6:07 materials so you don't usually need to use a high dosage and they often really add to the diffusion these raw materials are a bit more let's say kind of character imparting than some of the other ones um i guess maybe in roxanne is a little bit as well so the more of these raw materials you use is probably going to take your perfume base away from something more generic and make it a little bit more specific though if you dose them in moderation you can still fit them into your perfume base then as well as these you also have things like the woody ambers so things like amber extreme and cedramba and then you also have the salicylates these are quite good if you're looking towards maybe a more floral leaning composition but they're used all over the place as well especially anal salicylate and benzyl salicylate and then finally i would also say that vanillin and its derivatives are also pretty um they're

6:55 pretty widely used so when i say and it's derivatives i mean vanillin ethyl vanillin and then similar things like veritraldehyde so so if you use all of these um yes they are not all completely neutral so when you use the kind of vanilla things it will generally make it a bit sweeter then when you go to use the woody ambers it will make it a bit more like a woody amber if you go and use the iron ones it'll make it a little bit more violet and the damascus might make it a little bit kind of fruity kind of rose though in general by using kind of combinations of these kind of things i think it's quite easy to achieve something that's just quite nice smelling and it generally performs quite well so you might want to make a couple of these different perfume bases maybe for different context you might want to make one that's a bit lighter a bit fresher and one that's a bit more kind of darker more like a woody amber or

7:42 something like that you might want to have a few obviously for different situations so then let's go and actually look at some of these perfume bases in action and what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you the formula for a perfume base which i've got made and i'm going to smell it let you know what it smells like and then i'm also going to show an example of doing a trial where i go and take a raw material a completely random raw material which i just happen to feel like using and then adding just a small amount of it to the perfume base and seeing the effects so just before we get on to that this is pretty much how you want to use these perfume bases essentially what you're doing is creating the basic structure of a perfume and the idea is that then on top of this you're going to add maybe one two three raw materials at just quite a low dosage and what they're going to do is they're going to give the

8:28 perfume base its own character and they're going to kind of make a whole perfume with that base but they're going to make a perfume that then kind of smells like or has the theme of those raw materials that you added to it so let's get into it let's start off with this perfume base which i made yesterday i just improvised it for this video and let's go have a look at the formula that i came up with so when i was coming up with this formula what i decided was firstly i wanted to put a bit of ambro fix in because well i just quite like it um not everyone likes amber fix but again this is a bit about when i say you know you can tailor these perfume bases to your personal tastes um so i put in some amber fix i thought then we probably want to have some musks and my kind of favorite or go-to musk is

9:15 ethylene brasoli i think it's great it just smells really nice it works with a lot of things it doesn't overpower things too much and also it's just quite cheap and like easy to use so it's kind of just like great in all different areas really so i thought let's put in a good amount of that but i didn't want it just to smell of ethylene bracelet i thought maybe let's give it a bit more spice let's just give it a little bit of a unique signature so i thought let's pick another musk to go with ethylene bracelet and i quite like doing this taking ethylene bracelet and then putting it in a two to one ratio with some other musk which has a bit more character so in this case i chose herbanalide which i think smells a bit more like a ironing or a laundry mask i thought maybe that would be interesting so i said okay we've got our amber fix ethylene bracelet and havana light and then i also wanted to add hedion and iso

10:02 we super because you know those things are just kind of um they're widely used and often they make things smell good and you know it's just kind of almost like a no-brainer to add these a lot of the time so i thought let's put in those ones and instead of isole super i decided to use the timber silk variant because this being my version of a perfume base i thought you know i want to make it more towards my preferences and i prefer the timber silk version of iso super to the kind of original version of i sweet super so i put in timber silk and then finally i also wanted to add a bit of veritraldehyde and for this i was a bit inspired by the competition we did a couple of months ago because one of the entries uh blue jeans kind of opened my eyes to veritraldehyde which i hadn't

10:49 really used before but i found after kind of smelling this competition entry that i really liked uh well i really like veritraldehyde and i saw how it could be kind of used to harmonize with musks in the bass note and in that formula they'd harmonize very trialdehyde partially with the herbalide so i thought let's add that in again and hopefully that will make a nice kind of base so as for the proportions um usually i think it's quite easy to put the musks at a decent percentage and again the hedion and timber so they can kind of go as high as you want really i didn't want to make them too overpowering so i thought let's kind of put them at a two percent so still fairly high and then the amber fix i just wanted to have a small amount i think 0.5 in your final formula for amber fix is already pretty

11:36 powerful um it's already gonna smell a bit like amber fix specifically from doing that um but because i quite like it i thought you know what in this formula let's just have that why not and then the vera childhood again after i've been kind of playing with this a bit recently i found that i quite like veritraldehyde to be around like one percent in the final formula so again for this i thought let's have the vera trailer height at one percent and so you can see roughly how these numbers kind of came to be so when i made that and i didn't give it a name well i did afterwards but kind of initially i didn't know what to call it but i made it and i went and smelled it and you know what i actually quite like it um i wasn't expecting too much given that it was just an improvisation thing and yes it definitely does have a little

12:22 bit um of an amber fix kind of smell to it so maybe that was just a little bit heavy-handed but you know i don't hate it actually i think it works fairly well a lot of people do like the smell but overall yeah i just quite like it to me it smells kind of like dark has a bit of like a musky vibe maybe it's a little bit animated but it's also quite clean and i think the very trauma hide that kind of maybe slight sweetness gives it a little bit of a flare as well so you know what i'm quite a big fan of this base and then i was thinking of names and i was like you know what let's call this the the dusk bass because it kind of reminds me just very slightly of like the dusk you know just um after the sunset and you know i thought well probably should name it for the video because in case someone else wants to use this

13:09 so i call it the dusk bass anyway now i've got the bass and i've done it at 10 though if you're doing this in practice i would actually maybe recommend doing these at twenty percent and we'll talk a bit a bit about that later but anyway so that was the first step make the perfume base so the idea is now that with this perfume base i could go and add any raw material that i kind of felt like on the given day and just add a little bit of that and because i've mostly done the perfume structure already in that base so in this case it's dusk base it shouldn't really matter too much what i add because as long as i dose it you know not way too strong then it should end up being fairly nice because the the rest of the base will carry the kind of smell also what it's doing is it's actually

13:54 teaching us how the raw material that we add kind of works in perfumes because we kind of got now like a known quantity so the idea is normally you wouldn't just improvise this but you would make something that you really like and then use that across the board then the idea is you really notice the effect of the new thing that you just added because you know so well the original smell of the base that that effect or the difference by adding that new thing that suddenly is very clear to you so now you've learned quite a lot about your raw material because you've learned the effect that it has on a perfume so what i chose to add to this and for all of these that i'm going to go over i was just looking at my library of raw materials and looking through them until i saw something when i thought you know what i haven't looked at that in a while but i quite like that smell and you know i wonder how this would smell in a

14:41 perfume so what i picked out was the black agar jivko 215 base which is an ood recreation or an ood base by gilberton i haven't used it too much but i do quite like the smell so i thought you know let's try it out so i took just a little bit of it so i essentially made one gram of all these perfume bases my 10 then i just added a 0.1 gram at 10 so just a small amount of each of these things i tested to the perfume base to see what happened so that's what i did here and yeah what does it smell like and it's funny because i just made this kind of you know so randomly but i actually really love the way it smells i actually just want to keep smelling it um i could definitely wear this as a perfume

15:27 and yeah the way it smells i guess is well you really get this kind of dark kind of mysterious element from the ude and i also think it actually manages to make almost a bit of an accord i think it really brings out the musks in a different way that we're in the base and kind of emphasizes those a bit adds some kind of spicy notes but the whole kind of thing just melds really well together and yeah i just i just love the smell which honestly so this one was probably more successful than i expected but that is something that can happen when you do this kind of perfume-based method because you've already got something that smells nice and you're adding something else that smells nice and the other thing even though it may be something that's quite strong

16:12 all you really need to now do is kind of dose it right so in this case it seemed like the dosage and the choice uh worked quite well and this won't always be the case sometimes you'll get something that's maybe a bit too strong and then you'll have to make it weaker or occasionally it won't work at all but because we already kind of confirmed that we've got like a nice perfume on our hands here um essentially it wasn't too unlikely that adding something else nice to it kind of was gonna be nice as such but if we'd have just gone and took a load of random things and put them together there would have been a good chance that there just would have been no structure and a lot of those things or all of them wouldn't have been dosed correctly and then when you've got all that chaos going on the chances that you'll actually get something out at the end coming out nice at least on your first try are very low

16:59 and even then without these kind of raw materials that do provide the kind of structure to the perfume it can be difficult even to kind of change and edit until you get something that's nice so yeah this one was a success next then we've got the grossman accord so i already did a video about the grossman accord and a video where i did variations basically the same thing we're doing now but i thought i would do another one just to illustrate the point because it's such a great example of one of these perfume bases so if you don't already know the russian record is basically ice with super hedione alpha isomethyl iron and galaxolide so i've got that here and yeah it's quite diffusive you can smell it from a bit of a way away and it's basically quite a kind of warm embracing smell and they call it the hug me accord and i

17:45 guess that's for a reason and it has a bit of a kind of violet smell to it as well and that's because of the iron content but in general it's quite kind of warm and kind of soft and fuzzy and just quite pleasant now what i decided to do for the variation was to add pink pepper because well again i just was looking around my things and i saw pink pepper i thought i haven't really used that too much um i wonder what the effect of that is as a top note how does it work so i added a small amount of pink pepper to the garage on a cord and this is what we have so now this immediately again like the other one smells kind of almost completely different as in that pink pepper even though i added a small amount it's actually kind of taken over to a fair degree

18:31 but at the same time it doesn't feel kind of horribly too strong maybe it feels like it's could be kind of toned down a little bit especially if you didn't want pink pepper to be the focal point but this just goes to show if you did want to make a perfume revolved around pink pepper say say you had a friend who really liked the smell of pink pepper you could just go and take that grossman called put in this pink pepper you get this and it doesn't smell too bad it just smells like pink pepper and then obviously it's a top note kind of that will go and you'll be left with the kind of nice smelling grossman accord afterwards so yeah it works it works fairly well so what it adds is kind of like a spicy note but maybe in a bit more of a kind of unique way it's got this kind of terpeneic terpene aspect to it and it's also kind of a little bit sweet and it's

19:17 not kind of like black pepper that same kind of spice note it's kind of got its own its own version but i mean i'm basically describing pink pepper right now but it does kind of fit fairly well into the accord i don't think it blends as well as the other one i really like the other one that i just did with the the ood base and this one is kind of just like it worked it's fine you know it's not terrible but again i feel like you know someone would probably quite like this if someone really liked pink pepper then there's a good chance you know you could find someone who quite just likes this as a you know quite a simple perfume so the point i'm trying to illustrate here is that you know you can go and try all these things and you can go and make these perfumes which may not be kind of absolutely groundbreaking or anything like that

20:03 but you're getting something that smells you know fairly nice with kind of minimal effort and yeah it's also allowing you to learn the raw materials the effects they have and kind of gauge the strength if you're dosing it right so in this case for me i would probably go and cut down that pink pepper to like you know a third of what it is at the moment if i wanted to continue this concept and then go and add something else and see see what happens then so that was the garageman accord next i'm gonna do a couple of bases that i learned about from sarah mccartney so if you went and checked out my video uh recently on sarah's channel if you don't know who sarah is she is an indie perfumer and she is the founder of a perfume brand called 4160 i don't know if you say it like the full thing like 4160 or just for 160

20:51 tuesdays and so she's the perfume of that brand she kind of invited me onto her channel a few months ago and you can go and watch that video that we did together in collaboration that's actually two videos i'll put the links in the description and as part of that we were um looking at different raw materials and in one of the videos we actually went and essentially did this and we looked at both her what's called her sexy scent on the planet um that was something we smelled and she kindly was talking about the different raw materials that go inside of that which were bergamot i sweet super vanillin and what was the last one and cedramba so i've gone and made a blend with those raw materials she didn't disclose the exact amounts which you know is perfectly fine that makes sense given that it's a perfume she sells her around

21:37 but i did it kind of like an inspired by perfume base using those raw materials and then in another video we went and actually started adding some raw materials we went and added i think it was civet and mint to what's called her magical mystery material she likes to call which is simply um a blend in equal parts of hedio i sweet super and ethylene brassly again this is a really good perfume base um i actually love this one because it's so simple yeah it's so effective and i think this one in particular works really well um the other one sexiest on the planet one i just thought this would be kind of fun to do as kind of like a homage to sarah's perfumery so what i could have done is i've made two of these perfume bases based on those concepts and then i've again gone and added something to it so let's go look at those

22:22 so i'm going to start off with the kind of my poor rendition of her sexy scent on the planet so what i decided to do was take the vanillin and put that kind of at a low amount uh 10 because you know vanillin already this is really strong for vanillin but you know um i decided to add 30 of the cedramba like she said and then the other things were isoi super i think and the the bergamot so i went and added those again 30 because i thought you know sounds reasonable ryan so then we'll put in the vanilla at the end of 10 percent and it kind of adds up to nice round numbers i want to make that and you know already um that smells pretty nice you know it's like a nice kind of it's just like a nice perfume and i think in this um you've got this

23:08 like bergamot which like blends quite well with the ice we super i don't know what it is but to me at least it they kind of like make up for each other's uh shortcomings so you know the iso super is like nice and long lasting but i find at the start it has a bit of kind of a dry woody note at least on my skin that's not so nice but i find the bergamot which is um you know nice and bright and kind of a bit citrusy um it goes and it kind of i feel like it adds this it's got this fizziness to it and that fizziness kind of blends well with the iso super and that actually kind of just covers up that dry part of the suite super really well and then conversely the bergamot because it's a natural it's got these kind of like terpene kind of like residue notes at the end which don't smell quite so nice i think as the kind of fresh citrusy kind of opening from

23:54 bergamot but then i think like the iso super kind of um kind of goes and kind of compensates for that quite well so this blend is quite nice already and so this is yeah inspired by sarah's perfume i'm not taking any credit for this and then what i decided was okay i want to add something to that now i remember before when we made the perfume with her we went and we took her magical mystery material and added mint to it so kind of a little bit maybe inspired by that i saw this raw material which i had called mintonat and i quite like this raw material but the thing about it is very random and it's not really immediately obvious kind of where it would fit in a perfume or what you do with it so this is really the perfect opportunity to go and use one of those perfume bases to experiment with the raw

24:41 material like that so what i did was i decided to take this sexy scent on the planet base version this rendition that i made and then go and add a little bit of the internet to it so when i add them internet i quite liked it honestly i quite like the effect it had i actually think maybe i even preferred it to to the original and what it did was it added this kind of like woody i would say it added this just very interesting kind of slightly resonance maybe kind of slightly minty but this kind of i don't know it's just this nice kind of unique woody side to the perfume and i just think it worked quite well actually i think the dose was kind of

25:27 reasonable that we chose and and yeah i think it definitely kind of had a good effect on the formula but again it just kind of like it kind of transformed it into something else without completely changing it it kind of it was almost just like an evolution of the formula we had so yeah i quite like that formula i think the uh the trials i made of this perfume base had way too much vanillin honestly it's like it's very in your face and sweet you know in a real perfume or like if i was gonna make my own kind of perfume base out of this i probably kind of lower that um but again like i have you know i have no idea what uh proportions this is actually meant to be in so this was just kind of like a first attempt guess

26:12 so next let's move on to the magical mystery material that's the hedio and i sweet super and ethylene brasilia and again this one so this one i think is a really good perfume base especially if you're just starting out because it's only three raw materials maybe if you're a beginner and you're new to all this maybe you'd want to take this one because it's nice and it's it's easy and it's great and then you could also take the girlfriend accord and just between those two you've already got like two perfume bases which are great to use so this on its own this one is great because it really is very non-descript it's very kind of subtle and quiet yet at the same time it it does have some presence and it does have some like diffusivity and it lasts a long time and it's just it's just very soft and and pleasant

26:58 and this one really you can kind of build on and i think it will transform in a lot of different ways because it's just very neutral so what i decided to add to it was something called violif and again that's because i just i saw it on my shelf i thought um i haven't really used that let's let's see what happens so the violif now this i put in the amount the same amount as we did with the other things and this one was like crazy strong straight away so you know that showed me immediately that violet you really probably want to dose it a bit lower unless you want that again to be the star of your perfume um but what it smells like is it's kind of a green note it's kind of like a violet leaf absolute i think kind of note it's quite a um it's kind of like a the green notes are in the same category as things like sister hexanol like your grassy green

27:45 notes maybe this is a bit more leafy but anyway with the violif so this was really strong and overpowering like i said but you know what it still kind of works to some degree if you really like violeth then this is almost kind of just like a vial of with a bit of structure if you think about it um it definitely had some freshness it had some greenness and yeah i mean it's definitely by no means a finished perfume um but as i said like doing this was such a simple experiment because assuming we had a load of our magical mystery material made up in some kind of bottle we just take a bit of that take a bit of eyeliff put it together and see what happens and in essence that's how you're going to learn a lot in perfumery just trying out these things taking notes and then you slowly learn oh violet that's quite strong okay i

28:31 probably want to dose it in a small amount so there we go that is that is four different kind of perfume bases one of them which i improvised one of them the famous crochet chord and then two of them inspired by sarah mccartney now of course you can go make your own perfume bases and there are loads more out there you can find on forums for example someone in our discord group very kindly posted their own perfume base so i'll put that formula up on the screen so you can go and try that one out i haven't tried it yet but apparently they've had a lot of success with this so this is another one that might be great to try and of course what i would also just recommend is you go and create your own go and find one that kind of fits you your own personality and what you want your perfumes to smell like make that up as a perfume base make

29:17 a little bit and then just start making different kind of perfume variants from it and see where it gets you so let's kind of recap then so these perfume bases what are the main benefits why do i think they're so good well firstly like i say you can go and make up a big bottle of these so you could go and make something like well you could make a bottle like this this is probably too big this is a liter but um you could go and make say this one for example is 30 milliliters or maybe something a bit bigger like 100 milliliters and the idea is you're going to make that once and then instead of each time you go and make your formula having to pip out all of those separate things you're going to save all those pipettes so it's a bit more eco-friendly and then you just go and take a certain amount of

30:02 that base put it in a certain amount of your other kind of raw material or raw materials depending on how many you want to add and hey presto you've got your perfume it's taking you minimal amount of time because you've only had to put in a couple of things a minimum amount of pets and yeah it's just super easy so that's one benefit another benefit of this is well you're working with a known quantity so i'm going to assume here that you probably only make a couple of these perfume bases and you're going to be using them quite frequently and then what's happening is you get so used to that smell you learn that smell of the perfume base so specifically and intimately just like any other raw material that you become kind of very attuned to any changes on that smell so as soon as you go and add something in and you go and see what happens you really clearly notice the effect

30:49 that that other thing you added had on the formula so you kind of really go and learn with your raw materials the effect that they have on a perfume as opposed to just the effect that they have in isolation and that of course is great for your kind of education or yourself learning in perfumery now when going to make these perfume bases what i would recommend is probably doing something like making the whole thing to 20 i know i did 10 in these videos that's because i usually do things in 10 um and i haven't actually gone so far yet as to making up a big one of these stock solutions i haven't quite like decided on a perfume base for me but i would recommend doing it at 20 when you found one that works for you and the reason for that is because when you go and use it at 20 when you

31:36 start adding other things especially if they're pre-diluted already down to like 5 or 10 what will start happening is your perfume usually will get a bit more diluted and most people want to keep their kind of perfumes that they make in like an eau de parfum concentration so maybe something like 15 to 20 percent that kind of range so by starting with a 20 perfume base you already know that the perfumes you're gonna end up with are going to be much closer to that eau de parfum range of course if you usually make weaker perfumes like eau de toilettes or odor colognes then maybe you do want to start with a lower level perfume base but that's just another thought to take into account the other reason i like these perfume bases so much is if you go and create your own what it really asks you to do is go and create your own unique kind of like perfume signature as such

32:22 and you could think of this a bit like uh the perfume brand gerhard they have this famous thing called their girlanod and what you could go and do is similar or inspired by that you can go make your own perfume base and you could go and add a few kind of raw materials or maybe just a few twists that are things that you personally just really like and that goes then and makes your perfumes or your kind of brand or whatever just a little bit unique because you kind of got that dna in your perfumes and that almost kind of shouts that it's you and it's your perfumes and it's your kind of taste so that's just another reason i think it's cool to have these overall the best part about this whole method is that it's so easy and a lot of the things you make just end up smelling nice like we saw and so it's a lot less

33:09 stressful than you know trying to build everything from scratch all the time and inevitably that makes perfumery more fun and allows you to kind of be more creative as opposed to always just focusing on getting that perfume to even just smell nice in the first place so i'd really recommend that you go and try out this if you haven't done something similar already hopefully you managed to get some good use out of this technique in the future and hopefully you enjoyed the video if you did like it do consider subscribing to the channel and then all the new videos that i make every week about perfumery will come straight to your subscription feed and also consider just giving the video a like because you know supports me supports the channel anyway thank you and i will see you next time with another video about perfumery [Music]

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