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Scentsations: Create Botanical Scents and Perfumes
Extract, Blend, and Craft Your Signature Scents, Scented Products And Perfume For Beginners
Created byJoy Tay
Last updated 10/2023
English
What you'll learn
- Extract scents from botanicals using oils and alcohols
- Understand how to achieve a desired scent intensity
- Create scented products from scented oils and alcohols
- Create perfumes from scented oils and alcohols
- Formulate perfume blends using a structured approach
- Understand perfumery notes (top, middle and base notes)
- Recognise and apply scent vocabulary
- Recognise fragrance families
- Able to troubleshoot common perfumery mistakes
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Course content
8 sections • 59 lectures • 3h 29m total length
Requirements
- Absolute beginners welcome! A curiosity and willingness to learn how to make natural perfumes is key.
- Once you are ready to apply the lessons, basic perfume making equipment such as essential oils; diluents such as alcohol and carrier oils; as well as bottles, etc. will be needed
- A computer or a printer may be required for downloadable resources
Description
Create your own signature fragrances. Make your own scented products and perfumes.
In this course "Scentsations: Create Botanical Scents and Scented Products", we start with unlocking natural fragrances through oils and alcohols. This comprehensive course, full of hands-on practical projects, is an easy and accessible gateway for beginners like you into the world of scent-making.
At the end of this course, you will learn
Botanical Scent Extraction: Learn the art of extracting fragrances from plants. Explore various extraction methods and unleash the pure essence of nature.
Perfume Crafting: Dive into the world of perfume creation. Understand fragrance notes, blending techniques, and design your unique signature scents.
Scented Products: Expand your skills to craft scented products for your home such as room sprays and reed diffusers, or beauty products such as lip balms and lotions. Turn your scents into delightful gifts or a thriving business.
Creative Expression: Dump mass-produced, generic scents that don't reflect your individuality. Use scents as a form of artistic expression. Develop your olfactory senses and design fragrances that resonate with your signature style.
Here are some highlights of the course:
Scent extraction: How to extract scents from scratch, such as botanical ingredients, through tincturing, immersion and maceration
Product crafting: How to use scented oils and alcohols as base to create home and body products
Scent literacy: How to describe scents for better communication and recording of aroma profiles
Perfume Making: How to create fragrances with natural oil and alcohol extracts and essential oils
Perfumery fundamentals: Understand fragrance families, blending techniques, different types of perfumery ingredients, fragrance notes, fragrance blends formulas and recipes
Safety and Allergen Considerations: Learn to create scented products and perfumes that are safe and allergen-conscious, appealing to a wider audience.
Each section comes with its own PDF handouts and helpful exercises. There are over 30 pages of PDF guides related to scent extraction techniques, scented product making and perfume creation. These include:
How To Create Scented Alcohols
How To Create Scented Oils
Create A Perfume With Scented Alcohol
Create A Perfume With Scented Oil
Recharging Log
Aroma Profile Templates
Perfume Formulation Sheet (Two Versions)
Top Middle Base Notes List and Scent Profiles (>170 listed!)
Perfume Blend Combinations (More than 10!)
Sign up for this scented journey of diving into olfactory self-expression and creativity. Elevate yourself from an absolute beginner into a true scent savant.
See you in the course!
Joy
Who this course is for:
- Beginners to scent-making with preferences of working with essential oils, oils and alcohol