Journal for Natural Perfumers

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How to make perfumes like a professional perfumer

A simple idea is the most difficult thing to find for my students at the beginning because they have difficulty grabbing the concept of "idea" in connection with "perfume". Their mental connection to "perfume" is "smell". Yet it is the simplest thing in the world, once they will have acquired the brain of a perfumer, a brain able to think with smells.
Olfactory Pyramids

Deconstructing Olfactory Pyramids:
Unraveling Deceptive Myths in Modern Perfumery

What are Olfactory Pyramids? Olfactory pyramids, also known as fragrance pyramids or scent pyramids, are a graphical representation commonly used in the perfume industry to illustrate the composition and structure…
The Biggest Myth of Perfumery

The Biggest Myth of Perfumery
The Complexity of Perfume Making

Making perfumes is an instinctive, fast, and surprisingly accessible craft. Instead, making perfumes is easy. Just like swimming is easy, but you have to learn. You can learn how to make perfumes just as you can learn how to swim, in just a few lessons. My students can become perfumers in 6 days.
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How to build a folding perfumer’s organ

I have designed this particular perfumer’s organ for my Ninja Perfumer's life, composing perfumes for bazaars and courts. This has conditioned the choice of the materials used to build it. It had to be as light as possible and take as little…
Muskrat-glands

Muskrat second pheromone project on Basenotes

Muskrat is a rare ingredient of perfumery and is the scent nearest to the famous synthetic white musk. The second part will regard the psychological aspects and we shall try to ascertain if this pheromone has an effect on the opposite sex, with scientific method. There will be a series of guided experiments to ascertain facts in regard.
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Muskrat first pheromone project on Basenotes

Muskrat is a rare ingredient of perfumery and is the scent nearest to the famous synthetic white musk. The project consists in adding the muskrat tincture to commercial fragrances and to report your observations in this thread. Has it an effect on their longevity, volume and trail?
muskdeer oman

Anosmy to muskdeer, experiments with Basenoters

If you tell them "This is musk", they will expect a certain kind of smell and of intensity that may confuse their analysis of what they smell (how many people do not smell real ambergris because they expect the extra-loud smell of Indian Amber coumarins).