Scentsations: Create Botanical Scents and Perfumes

Learn coal extraction for perfumes via solid floor and multi floor methods, using alcohol to draw single or multi-flower scents and bottle the center alcohol into a simple bathroom spray.

Learn to craft scented alcohol using tincture and maceration, selecting flowers, leaves, bark, and roots as scenting agents, with safety, sanitation, and an A-B-C-D workflow for room sprays and perfumes.

Choose just-bloomed, firm flowers for cold extraction into scented alcohol; if you lack a tree, use firm fallen blooms. Source jasmine and other blooms from florists and ethnic stores.

Master soliflore cold extraction of red frangipani by soaking petals in high‑proof perfumer's alcohol to create an alcohol tincture, keeping water out and recharging in a cool dark place.

Recharge red frangipani by repeating alcohol tincture steps, replacing spent flowers, filtering, testing scent intensity, and squeezing to concentrate fragrance, while logging each recharge for increasing scent strength.

Filter the red frangipani scented alcohol through coffee filters during bottling. Store it in an opaque bottle with a light-blocking label, then transfer using a glass funnel.

master a multifloral cold extraction of white flowers, including orange jasmine, jasmine, and tuberose, by drying the petals, removing jasmine calyxes, and soaking in alcohol.

Filter the center alcohol from spent jasmine through cheesecloth after a 24-hour recharge, squeezing to maximize extraction, and store for the next recharge to avoid bacterial growth.

Recharge white flowers by immersing fresh blooms in scented alcohol, and repeat this recharging process as many times as you like to achieve the desired scent intensity.

Learn to bottle the final recharge of white flowers by filtering the dark alcohol tincture and capping a scented alcohol bottle for use as a perfume base.

select fragrance ingredients with higher sand intensity from the start to boost cold extraction outcomes, whether sourced from garden or shop, and balance scents through multiple recharges.

Learn to extract spices with alcohol, using cinnamon sticks and black pepper, then filter and bottle for homemade scented alcohol products.

Craft a bathroom spray using center alcohol derived from white flowers, filter sediment, and mix 75% water to 25% center alcohol; optionally add clear essential oils.

Explore oil-based scent extraction from fresh and dry botanicals, preparing ingredients and creating reed diffusers and other fragrance products for home and body.

Learn the basics of scented oil infusions, focusing on cold infusion with plant matter and oils like sweet almond, coconut, argan, and jojoba, while practicing safety and recording results.

Meet our star ingredient pandan plant and explore its role in creating botanical scents and perfumes.

Learn to make pandan leaf infused coconut oil via a two-week cold infusion, with sterilization, drying, and filtration for a warm vanilla aroma suited to body products and reed diffusers.

Infuse coffee beans in sweet almond oil via a cold infusion to produce coffee-scented oil after a few weeks; compare dry coffee with fresh pandan moisture for safe infusion.

Explore how natural ingredients dissolve in oil, observing coffee in sweet almond oil, beetroot in coconut oil, and alkanet root dissolving evenly, with red yeast rice showing partial dissolution.

Move from cold immersion to a personalized reed diffuser, using coffee-infused sweet almond oil as the base and carefully chosen essential oils for a complex home scent.

Choose thin, lightly colored, unscented carrier oils like sweet almond oil or fractionated coconut oil to carry essential oils up the reed in a homemade diffuser.

Discover a gourmand reed diffuser blend by testing vanilla, citrus notes, lavender, and coffee-infused base oil, using a 30% essential oil blend and a 3-2-1 note structure.

Choose a glass bottle with a small neck for your reed diffuser, avoiding wide-neck bottles that dust can accumulate, and prefer a bulb-like glass container that fits the diffuser sticks.

Mix vanilla, lavender, bergamot, and sweet orange in a beaker to 100 ml, pour into a diffuser bottle, cap with a stick, and place to release citrus notes.

Explore additional product ideas using scented oils, including small-batch lip balms like pandan with peppermint and rose–pandan blends with labeled ingredients. Preview lotions and oil-based perfumes using scented oils.

Learn to craft fragrance formulations from raw essences such as essential oils, master the basics of scents and fragrance construction, and create alcohol- and oil-based perfumes with practical tips.

Explore natural fragrance ingredients—essential oils, absolutes, and isolates—and synthetic options like fragrance oils and aroma chemicals, with extraction methods, tradeoffs, and design questions for allergy safety, vision, and cost.

Explore the fragrance wheel and the four main families—floral, amber, woody, and fresh—and their nuanced subfamilies with examples like rose, sandalwood, and lemon to categorize scents by olfactory characteristics.

Learn to articulate scents using a fragrance vocabulary and PDFs, linking citrusy and minty notes to emotions, memories, colors, and textures through multi-sensory smelling.

Compare two scents from different scent families, describe citrusy versus dry wood notes, and analyze brightness, textures, memories, and emotions to deepen your sense of smell.

Compare two scents from the same family, cedarwood and sandalwood, to describe warm, creamy aromas and textures, and note differences across species and suppliers to expand your scent vocabulary.

Explore how top, middle, and base notes unfold like a perfume symphony, from bright top notes to lasting base notes, revealing evolving aromas as they evaporate at different rates.

Build fragrances from top, middle, and base notes, treating classifications as guides, not gospel. Apply 352 or 5-11 proportions, keep notes, and adjust in small batches.

Learn to use the fragrance wheel to choose notes that blend well—neighboring, opposite, and triangular subfamilies—with rose and peach examples, plus ten starter formulations for alcohol and oil perfumes.

Compare oil based and alcohol based diluents for carrying fragrance, noting oil bases offer longer longevity and skin nourishment while alcohol enables lighter, more diffusive releases.

This beginner lecture explains when to pre-dilute fragrance ingredients, focusing on learning to smell first. Pre-dilution can improve accuracy and simplify record keeping for pre-diluted materials.

Explore perfume concentrations from 1–3% to 20–30%, noting that higher percentages generally yield longer longevity and guide how much fragrance to add to your creations.

Choose fragrance ingredients from reputable, sustainable sources and avoid random suppliers. Be intentional about uses—skin care, aromatherapy, or perfume—and explore solid perfumes and floral waxes to manage cost.

Gather essential perfume equipment, including measuring scales, glass beakers, opaque bottles, droppers, and roll-ons, with safety gear and a logbook to document formulations.

Disinfect and sterilize your tools before making perfume, using rubbing alcohol or boiling water. Wear gloves, protect surfaces with plastic, and contain spills in a tray to guard against staining.

Master mise en place for perfume making by organizing materials and tools, labeling top middle and base notes with color codes, and creating two perfumes: oil-based and alcohol-based.

Learn to craft an alcohol-based perfume by blending perfumers alcohol with essential oils for a 10 ml solution. Use a 5:4:11 top-middle-base notes ratio with frangipani as a middle note.

Find a scent combination for frangipani perfume by testing top notes such as bergamot and grapefruit against the frangipani scented alcohol, then balance with benzoin and sandalwood base notes.

Assemble an alcohol-based perfume from frangipani scented alcohol by balancing top, middle, and base notes in nine milliliters of alcohol, using drops and record keeping.

Conceptualize an oil-based perfume by blending fractionated coconut oil as the carrier with essential oils and a scented oil, then test combinations and finalize at 20% concentration.

Explore conceptualizing scent formulations by naming a scent sway, combining ylang ylang, sweet orange, and rosewood with vanilla coconut, and prototyping a 20% oil-based perfume using a 3-3-2 note ratio.

Test scent blends in an Eppendorf tube with rosewood two drops, ylang ylang three, and sweet orange two, then refine ratios using pads and scent strips.

Use a colorless carrier such as fractionated coconut oil as an 8 ml base for a 20% perfume blend, while wearing gloves and sanitizing with alcohol.

Learn to craft an oil-based perfume by mixing carrier oil with base, middle, and top notes—rosewood, ylang ylang, and sweet orange—and test, adjust, and mature the blend.

Explore starter diy perfume blends with a pdf of more than ten recipes. Embrace experimentation and the challenge to move beyond recipes toward a fragrance based on your own preferences.

Boost perfume longevity by optimizing concentration up to 30%, using long lasting base notes like sandalwood and patchouli, and adding fixatives at 1–3% with natural resins or synthetic musk alternatives.

Design a balanced perfume by focusing on composition and the interaction of base notes. Apply tips on dilution, pre-diluted ingredients for oil or alcohol bases, and aging with careful documentation.

Celebrate completing the scentsations course and continue creating botanical scents and perfumes, blending natural and synthetic fragrances for body or home while sharing your joy.