How do you make your own perfume? what ingredients needed? and how do you extract a flower's scent from the flower? and then used it in your own perfume mixture?
2006-07-21 23:30:00 · 8 answers · asked by ImANobody 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
OK ... lots of questions.
How do you make a perfume?
By combining different fragrance compounds in a specific way to produce a blend of fragences which, overall, has the desired scent character that you want. This means taking both natural and synthetic fragrance compounds, fixitives, diluents and mixing them together. How simple or complex you want to make the blend is up to you - but most blends share a few common traits :
A combination of high, middle and bass notes - that is a balance between the scent that you first smell, one that people smell when they are near you and the one they smell when you leave (or that is still on your body after a few hours).
What ingredients are needed ?
Natural and synthetis fragrances :
"High" notes are often citrus or floral - light and breezy, bright and fruity
"mid notes" - waxy, forest trees, orchids
Bass notes - forest floor, earthy smells, sweat, skatole, musk, amber, patchooli
Usual solvents include alcohol, benzyl alcohol and its esters, glycerine, polyglycols.
Synthetics are everywhere - indoles, skatoles, esters, aromatics, chloro-compounds, nitrocompounds, higher alcohols - the list is endless.
Fixatives include ambergris, musk, ambrette, orris root
How do you extract a flower's scent?
There are a variety of methods :
Solvent extraction - get LOTS of the flowers/leaves you want to get the scent from and soak them in an appropriant solvent - options are pentane, hexane, alcohol, supercritical CO2. Remve the solvent by vacuum distillation - fragrance compounds are left behind. As an example, pentane extraction of 1 tonne (1000kg) of peppermint leaves yields 5kg of peppermint oil.
Enfleurage - "fat extraction" - spread a thin layer of hydrogenated fat over glass plates and leave it in contact with the flowers/leaves you want to extract. Repeat the process with new leaves/flowers 'till the wax is saturated and then solvent extract the wax as above. As an example, 5000kg of rose petals yields about 1 kg of rose attar (worth about $10000).
Steam distillation - run wet steam through leaves/flowers and extract scent which rises o the surface as water cools. The oil is skimmed off the top, the "hydrosol" (smelly water that remains) is often used as a cheap perfume (although some companies charge a fortune for what should be a waste product!).
or just buy what you need from one of the specialist suppliers.
How do you use it in you own perfume?
Trial and error and more trial and error...............
2006-07-23 00:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Bruce H 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why fumble around trying to make your own perfume? If you add up the money spent on ingredients, and if you count your time-as-money (I do), you'll end up spending more than if you simply bought a bottle that was made by a team of experts (seriously, these folks have fragrance labs and can accomplish more than you can in your bathtub). Unless you're contemplating a career in perfumery, just get yourself a nice bottle of discount designer perfume: https://www.perfumiya.com
2015-11-18 07:06:08 · answer #2 · answered by Zena 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the natural way is to dry them up and grind them and press the flowers to extract the oil out of them. they then add alcohol to it and is now used in sprays. it is even done with seeds to extract the oild out of them, you know sun flower oil, olive oil. they use the same method.
you know about nail polish removers right?. it is chemical which is known as esters. it is all organic chemistry. the process is called esterification. they have very strong smells, so they can even be used in perfumes. it is a long process. check this site for full details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esterification
it gives full details of the process.
2006-07-22 00:30:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buy pure ethanol(Ethyl alcohol),or use vodka which is diluted alcohol.Mix it with the flowers you want,and distill,in a water bath.
The product is a perfume.
2006-07-22 01:09:09 · answer #4 · answered by qwine2000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
deodorant is going under your hands. fragrance can somewhat bypass the place ever you like however the classic places are on your wrists, at the back of your ears and on your neck. As there's a pulse close to all those places they warmth up and allow the fragrance to be smelt less difficult. you employ the two yet once you like get a non scented deodorant so the scents are not getting blended up.
2016-12-10 12:05:42 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u need flowers......sorry i cant help u ive never made a perfume before...(^_^)
2006-07-21 23:33:42 · answer #6 · answered by JennyfferBCN 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
add some ethyl alcohol...
2006-07-22 01:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by leo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
get off it, how dare you
2006-07-21 23:33:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋