Perfumery Basics: My 5 DIY Hacks & Tips for Easier Perfuming

[@sammacer]

Great tips! Nice to see how you clean the glass pipettes.

[@bkscents7050]

Thanks! Those little buggers are a pain to clean when dealing with benzoin, labdanum, absolutes, etc....the solution works pretty well!

[@jasonburke4724]

A great thing i learnt with my dud batches. One day I put some in a Humidifier and it was annoyingly gorgeously.

[@paulmcmc4005]

I have a ton of plastic reusable pipettes but need to get glass ones to save a small fortune. Reusing your unwanted blends is a great idea - Id be a bit paranoid about inadvertently creating a random masterpiece for the room spray haha. Great tips thank you👍

[@andrewh175]

Wow 🤩 great video and I never thought of some of these ideas 💡

[@bkscents7050]

Thanks Andy! See ya on Basenotes! 😉

[@Caricoclay]

Great tips. Love your videos. For melting materials I have a small container of rice I heat in the microwave . Then I place 3 or 4 bottles of solidified materials in to liquefy, if needed.

[@brucewayne375]

I tried your room spray idea, it worked really good! I was surprised 😮

[@amandawashington3782]

These tips are awesome!! Thank you!!

[@alz4424]

The coffee maker hack was simply great. Can you please do a video on making an evaporation graph and how to use it

[@RD-kp5sc]

Great tips!!! Thanks ;-)

[@Aysha-hx6cb]

I really Would like to know how As a Beginner I Can Create a Long Lasting Aromatic Perfumes Thanks For These Tips Definitely will Try The Reusing Old Combinations To turn them into room sprays Love it

[@kurush61]

Great content! Wondering if you could do a video on your work station set up?

[@bkscents7050]

That's something I can do next week! 😁

[@texasfan8892]

Definitely going to try the coffee pot method with the fir balsam absolute I have coming in. Trying to get that stuff to liquify into something even remotely usable is like trying to melt concrete. In the past, I've been lucky enough to get small amounts in larger bottles so I can dilute it with alcohol before using it but that's not possible anymore.

[@texasfan8892]

I just got in some fir balsam absolute from Eden Botanicals. I wanted to try the coffee pot method to heat it up so it would become pourable, however I decided to use (at least in my opinion) a simpler method. What I did was decide what I wanted the material to be diluted at and weighed out the amount of alcohol I would need for that to happen. So for example, the fir balsam absolute I got is 5 grams and I wanted a 25% concentration, which is still very strong by the way, so I weighed out 15 grams of alcohol and poured that into a separate container. Then, I just took some of the alcohol I already weighed out and added it to the container of fir balsam absolute. Even though the stuff is solid at room temperature and has the consistency of axle grease, it becomes pourable rather quickly when alcohol is added. Plus, not only is there no need to worry about how much alcohol your adding to the absolute, because you've already weighed it out beforehand, but there's no risk of potentially damaging the material or fire hazard due to overheating it. Really, the only thing you need to watch out for is to not add too much alcohol to the container that the material is in because you might cause some of it to spill over. The coffee pot method does in fact work and I used it to liquefy some exaltolide I purchased from Perfumer's Apprentice. However, the container that stuff is in is clear, which makes it much easier to see the state the material is in. The fir absolute on the other hand is in a very dark, almost black container and so I think it would've been much more difficult to see if the material was softening up or not.

[@bkscents7050]

But if you added alcohol directly into the container that had the absolute, doesnt that mean you no longer have pure unaltered raw 100% absolute anymore? Like, what if you decided you needed some 100% raw fir absolute (for what ever reason)....does this mean you no longer have 100% strength abs at your disposal because you poured alcohol directly into your Fir Abs container?

[@texasfan8892]

@@bkscents7050 You're correct, it does mean I no longer have pure, undiluted material. However, with this stuff, that's perfectly fine for me. I'm sure you've probably used this material before so you know that in its pure, undiluted form, it is VERY difficult to work with. Yes, you can heat it up to make it pourable so you can work with it but even diluted, it's very strong in small amounts. So for that particular reason, since I know I would only use it diluted, I figured I would use this method. May not be the best thing for everyone but it works for me.

[@adriansumner1412]

Galangal is the worst for that. Uscrewed the dropper and solidifed almost straight away, might have to be the hot bath though, we don't have coffee makers in Australia. Yeah true, what's interesting too is that when you take a walk outside you tend to get a bit of a backdraft I guess you could say. Like when I was first using aldehyde I didn't realize how soapy it was till I walked outside, washing your hands is another good tip also. With cleaning I'm yet to try WD40 I'm thinking that could be worth a try I tend to rinse with hot water then steralize with alcohol.

[@portraitofafragrance8368]

Love it! Thanks

[@bkscents7050]

Thank you! :)

[@portraitofafragrance8368]

Would like be to hear what you think my channel...it's different .. non perfume people describing fragrance blindly smelling

[@kanishchopra2685]

Great content👍👌🏻

[@MegaStas13]

Hi man :), do you pour out all the liquid where pipettes were sitting, or do you keep it for another cleaning?

[@laurenbray8314]

You know those cheap $5 candle melting plates? That would be a similar thing to use for gently melting down solidified materials.

[@bkscents7050]

I almost bought one too! But I ended up buying a magnetic stirrer that had a built in adjustable heat function.

[@david-Davidson]

1:05 great idea, I've using a hair dryer lol

[@bkscents7050]

Does that actually work? Lol....like, does it heat it up enough to liquify solids?

[@david-Davidson]

@@bkscents7050 Yeah it work, takes a while though lol. Probably not the most energy efficient...

[@Perfumery_by_Sabin]

I bought a coffee cup heater at target for $5 that plugs into my USB port on laptop.

[@david-Davidson]

@@Perfumery_by_Sabin Yeah I don't use a hairdryer anymore just hot water bath hahah