How to learn raw materials in perfumery

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[@originalsupermommy]

I am training my nose and journaling what I smell every day. Super great advice! Thank you!

[@sammacer]

That sounds great dude, keep it up :)

[@amandaberns5749]

I simply love your videos, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I listen to one everyday to remember concepts and I often find something I didn’t get the first time, you are awesome!

[@Tmanaz480]

I'm more involved with flavor chemistry, but there seems to be a lot if crossover. Thanks for sharing so much knowledge with us for free.

[@Lyricluxx]

Wwowowww.. i was waiting for something like this. In this oandemic i hv been learning a lot but a good direction is always helpful👍

[@sammacer]

Glad it can help

[@FelicityDiluvian]

Fabulous job Sam, thank you 🥰

[@sammacer]

Thanks!

[@Perfumery_by_Sabin]

Good stuff Sam. Can’t wait to get off this boat on the Bering Sea and get back home to learn my materials better: I am gone for months at a time and I try and soak up as much info as possible while gone

[@sammacer]

Cheers man. That's cool, is it for work? If so, what's the job?

[@Perfumery_by_Sabin]

@@sammacer yes, it’s for work. I work on a longline factory freezer fishing for cod. I am the cook however. We stay out for about a month at a time we fill the boat then come back to land. offload the fish and head back out for another month; then I go home and take a couple months off.

[@sammacer]

@@Perfumery_by_Sabin Nice dude - good luck when you get back

[@tdog3954]

Hey sam, how do you store your perfumers alcohol?

[@kg20008]

Great video as always! Do you uses the recommended smelling percentage on tgsc? I'm not sure if that should be a formulating percentage or purely analysis.

[@sammacer]

Thank you. I myself don't use tgsc much at all, and I don't really look at the percentages on it much either. Having the predilutions at 10%, 1% and 0.1% allows me to understand which dilution is most likely appropriate for a given raw material. I would recommend that but I don't see any problem with tgsc if it helps :)

[@pamelacrawshaw781]

What is the chemical name for what would be described as "blaccurrant" top note and tiare flower middle note

[@bkscents7050]

This was neat watching you make guesses.....blind sniffing is so hard.

[@sammacer]

Thanks dude, hope you’re well

[@rickscars7395]

Thanks Sam.

[@sammacer]

No problem

[@laronbridewell9468]

Question. What can I do to increase the performance of the fragrances that I create. Also I am new to perfumery and currently I am hand mixing my compositions, are there any tips that you can recommend that will enable me to blend my fragrances as well as possible?

[@sammacer]

Check out my videos on longevity and projection, as well as the one on making perfumes with any smell using perfume bases :)

[@simonbysted7825]

When you write notes about your materials, do you have a way of organizing it? I feel like I wouldn't be able to find the notes again.aftet writing them

[@sammacer]

I use an note taking desktop app to make notes which makes it easy to find things using CTRL + F. I’ve heard people have a lot of success with record cards in a deck.

[@mi-vy8xm]

sir if we are using aroma chemicals,is there a need for us to add natural essential oil?or we can just focus on aroma chemicals?

[@sammacer]

You can use both together

[@moreiseepeoplemoreilkesnakes]

Very interesting video, subbed 😉

[@sammacer]

Cheers

[@xoxUnD3R0aThxox]

can I make perfume using only natural EO'S?

[@sammacer]

Yes, but most likely it will smell not as nice as perfumes you can buy in shops

[@xoxUnD3R0aThxox]

@@sammacer I actually started sort of like you, and already have a lot of EO's, but I realized if I were to continue doing this hobby, I need to dabble into synthetics, and not really because of the scent, but because of a severe lack of longevity, sillage and projection!!! I actually wonder if I start incorporating only musks, would it achieve what the EO's are lacking? What would be a good musk to start with?

[@sammacer]

@@xoxUnD3R0aThxox I started with a lot of EOs and the problem I had was a lot of camphoraceous and oily notes. The trick I found was to use good quality naturals in dilution with the synthetics. I think it's good to have a range of synthetics, but for musks in particular I would recommend ethylene brassylate and exaltolide.

[@xoxUnD3R0aThxox]

@@sammacer thanks, I will give those a shot, have you tried EO's with musks before? Do you think the musk will be enough for longevity sillage and projection?

[@sammacer]

@@xoxUnD3R0aThxox I think they will help but for silage and projection I would recommend you add the following to your collection: ambroxan, iso e super, hedione, dihydromyrcenol

[@jstar6543]

DIDN'T ANYONE THINK OF LABELING THE BOTTLE WITH THE NAMES OF THE SCENTS AND STRIPS🤔

[@sammacer]

What?

[@jstar6543]

@@sammacer I get it and I understand that you are training your nose but I do not have the time frame to do such so I write down everything and I do mean everything literally😉

[@Tmanaz480]

Everything *is* labeled. He says "don't look at the bottle," "now I'm going to look at the bottle." Etc. I think you may be in too much of a hurry. I know what that's like😊.