How to learn raw materials in perfumery

[@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.

[@tdog3954]

Hey sam, how do you store your perfumers alcohol?

[@bkscents7050]

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

[@sammacer]

Thanks dude, hope you’re well

[@pamelacrawshaw781]

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

[@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

[@Dieznqn]

I guessed Spruce with your excellent description! haha

[@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.

[@PlantswithCoffee]

Hi Sam i have a question, is it possible not to use ethanol in a perfume blend? Like for instance i will use tec as my diluent or maybe mix with dpg since some of my neat can be diluted with dpg. My previous blend is actually with ethanol and am not sure if its the right material im using despite of their claim as sda40b ethyl 96%. Seems too strong in my nose. Or maybe because i missed the maceration stage that is why my blend is not projecting too much and it does not long last?

[@sammacer]

Ethanol is the only regular solvent to use for the bulk of a fine fragrance - maybe you’re not used to the smell, maybe your fragrance materials aren’t strong enough inside

[@PlantswithCoffee]

⁠@@sammacergotcha… ‘my blend is already on its 10th since it’s blended. I skipped maceration due to lacked of knowledge about maceration. So what i did is just mixed everything togther with my solvent/diluents. Today, i think the smell of the alcohil is kind of okay now but thr fragrance seems gone very quicky. Also the smell is kind of muted after a while…

[@Winning29]

Hey Sam. Love your channel! As a cancer survivor, I have begun to make my own perfume oils from 100% essential oils, but I am looking for a disbursement so that they spray and I get projection also so they are less oily. Any feedback is appreciated.

[@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 :)

[@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

[@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 :)

[@FelicityDiluvian]

Fabulous job Sam, thank you 🥰

[@sammacer]

Thanks!

[@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

[@rickscars7395]

Thanks Sam.

[@sammacer]

No problem

[@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

[@moreiseepeoplemoreilkesnakes]

Very interesting video, subbed 😉

[@sammacer]

Cheers

[@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😊.