Trying out 7 perfumery combinations

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Simple perfume
05:09 - Rose + Beeswax
06:44 - Opium (Yves Saint Laurent)
10:30 - Frankincense + Lavender
13:21 - Zan candy
15:29 - Tomato leaf
19:21 - White musk
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[@miseeire8832]

Hi Sam, I just wanted to thank you for all of your entertaining, educative and inspiring videos. I took the plunge today and ordered (almost) everything I need to start my new hobby. So I can't wait to start making dilutions and learn my materials. Really appreciate all the work you put into your videos, you're a legend. Thanks again and all the best for now, Joe.

[@sammacer]

Thanks Joe, good luck with it all!

[@morariperfume]

One combo I really love is beeswax + flouve + vanilla CO2 + nagarmotha! It makes a really basic beeswax candle accord, with a little bit of smoky wick from the nagarmotha. And you can flesh it out with some labdanum, clearwood, Virginia cedar, and a hint of rectified birch tar

[@sammacer]

That sounds very cool - unfortunately I don’t have any flouve

[@morariperfume]

@@sammacer if you end up getting some, I’d love to know your thoughts! It smells like a cross between vanilla and hay, without hay’s animalic nature. Some nuttiness in there, too!

[@boatkitwirat9717]

thank you Sam, I just begin to mix the perfume these ideas helps me a lot.

[@nestor6355]

Hi Sam, I've seen a lot of your material and this format, I love! Short, simple, interesting formulas! I hope we see more of these. Many thanks for everything

[@sammacer]

Thanks!

[@custardjim]

Hi Sam, just wanted to say as a hobbies perfumer with 6 months experience I find your channel amazing. So many questions have been answered through your videos. From what are accords and what alcohol to use I’m finding them really helpful. Look forward to watching this video tonight.

[@sammacer]

Thank you!!

[@BoriSSon-Malikov]

Sam! Grand thanks!!! I'm beginner in perfumery creating and i looked for some free information in my country, dut didn't find... But you are as Graal for me, like serious step in my hobby... Thank you again!

[@sammacer]

Thank you, glad I could help!

[@kikitauer]

I like how you casually speak about the lavender-frankincense. I helped me understand one important aspect of the scents or perfumes in general - that it flows and evolves from one particular smell to another. I ofc understood it before too but you said it so well that it somehow clicked now. Also I don't like lavender and even in mixes it repulses me. But I think that it is true that it'd make a nice accord, just not for me. If you'd want to make a video about ranking different raw materials into tiers, I would definitely find it funny ;-)

[@sammacer]

I’m glad that it helped it click for you! And of course, everyone has different tastes so I totally get that. The ranking video sounds like a fun idea, although it would be difficult since professional perfumers always say that no smells are good or bad, just different, waiting for the right context to shine.

[@jori7398]

I’m so intrigued by the tomato notes!

[@MusicKnowte]

I never got a notification for this video! And it never showed up on my home page! ☹️ so excited that I came to your page and found it!

[@sammacer]

Glad you found it eventually 😃

[@MusicKnowte]

@@sammacer omg, you said "trash" at 23:04... I thought it was called rubbish in the UK--you broke character

[@antoniohopson5287]

Very Educational Information.. Love The Work🙏🏾

[@sammacer]

Thank you!

[@zubedadahir9643]

Hi Sam. Now after watching your videos for a while now, will try and make some accord and move on to see what I can come up with.

[@zubedadahir9643]

Hi Sam. I've been doing oil based perfumes with some ouds. Recently I started mixing in perfumers alcohol and some of them smell verynicenice

[@fakirmohammedkazi3537]

Assalamualaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu..... 💫💕 *اَلسَّلاَمْ عَلَيْــــــــــــــــــــكُمْ وَ* *رَحْمَةُ اللہِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ* 💫💞

[@allysonbriner1883]

Such a weird coincidence in this video! Last year I made a fragrance featuring frankincense and lavender in honor of the Abbey of Senanque, where I stayed for a few weeks. It just happens to be the abbey in the photo you chose!

[@sammacer]

Crazy! I took it off of a stock photo site but cool that it was the same one.

[@sammacer]

Crazy! I took it off of a stock photo site but cool that it was the same one.

[@justaddlight]

Corn mint as in wild mint? 🌿 What I find interesting too is how Jacques Cavaillier used mandarin, ginger and rosemary to complement the juniper and cypress in creating an evergreen tree effect in L'eau Bleu d'Issey. Wonderfully realistic. Would be interested to get your take on the tomato leaf accord in Calice Becker's What About Adam for Joop!. I think it's just as good as the "green tomato" accord in the opening of Valentino Uomo Acqua. Best part of the fragrance.

[@sammacer]

Yes, wild mint is the one! And those perfumes sound great, I’ll have to smell them sometime :)

[@gordianusthefinder9862]

If the goal is a clean laundry scent on the white musk accord, I've heard exaltolide and tonalide have about the strongest fresh linen notes. Maybe try adding one or both to the accord?

[@sammacer]

I don’t think so since to me Exaltolide is quite thick and heavy, whereas tonalide is more animalic, the opposite of clean laundry.

[@gordianusthefinder9862]

@@sammacerthanks for the reply. Huh, that's weird. I haven't smelled them before but ordered them based on the description of another perfume KZbinr to use in a light floral where they were described as the most heavily scented of the light functional musks. My order hasn't arrived yet but it'll be interesting to smell them. I'm sure I'll find a place for them. 👍

[@mazelineallen4965]

Hi Sam, it is great what you are doing but can you show the oils you are using and keep the hands less moveable, you see i was on the computer but the volume went and you were moving your hands too fast. Thank you

[@zaphodisgod]

hey sam, figured I would get a comment in before they add up. I use your app and I really do love it but I do have some questions, and comments about it. first question: is there a way to change the date of a formula? because every time I copy a formula I've made, to tweak it, it keeps the same date as the previous formula so there is no good way to track the ACTUAL date of my creations unless I also add the date to the title of the formula. also when it comes to imputing IFRA regulations...there are two kinds of regs as I understand it, one is percentage an ingredient can be in a diluted perfume, and the percentage an ingredient can be in a concentrate, but there is no way to differentiate in the app, so do you have any tips? should I just be setting the IFRA %'s for the diluted perfumes (EDT or EDP etc) or for the concentrates?? thank you I love your videos and your app in all other aspects works great and has been super helpful in streamlining my creative process.

[@sammacer]

Yea you can change the date, it’s in the formula statistics / notes page; press the pie chart in the top bar of the formula. And for the IFRA, it’s always the concentration in the diluted perfume, which is also what the app uses, never concentrate. Hope this helps!

[@zaphodisgod]

@@sammacer very helpful thank you 🙏

[@midasmines8072]

Hi Sam, I hv been blending with essential oils n perfumery is really the next level. Can we blend essential oils n fragrance oils using denatured alcohol?

[@sammacer]

Yes

[@sammacer]

Yes

[@ysydd1439]

I'm a little confused isnt beeswax a solid?

[@ironlion45]

I was curious here; I See in the original formula it's 150 parts galaxolide; but it looks like your formula used 150 parts galaxolide 10%; was that an oversight?

[@sammacer]

I used everything at 10% (except coumarin at 1%) - so the formula is the same just not a pure concentrate. Actually I did shift the numbers slightly since it didn’t add up nicely in the original but the actual difference is negligible, for all practical purposes it’s the same.

[@drnotperfect8446]

hi sam! I am new in your channel.

[@sammacer]

Welcome!

[@drnotperfect8446]

@@sammacer thank you so much!

[@wyomingherbals5083]

i look forward to your videos .I am from India

[@sammacer]

Thank you!

[@curioclassicperfumeguide]

WOW. Great

[@atobg_]

You don’t ship to the US? Says I can’t deliver to my address trying to order your fragrances

[@sammacer]

Sadly not at this time but it should be possible soon!

[@utmost-F16]

Any loud base notes perfumes for man for summer?

[@sammacer]

Maybe ambergris?

[@utmost-F16]

@@sammacer any perfumes with ambergris in the base would be loud?

[@wrayth3951]

what program is that on the screen?

[@sammacer]

My app, Formulair, check it out at www.formulair.app

[@bigguy2128]

Any plans for an android app?

[@sammacer]

Yes, but it takes a lot of time since app development is a long and slow process

[@Shawn-gw7ns]

I have to second that I'd definitely be interested in an android version.Always great content 👌

[@shihanpk2934]

What does total 10% means? Why it is 10%

[@sammacer]

I use 10% pre dilutions of my raw materials to create my blends

[@abesentertrainmentreviews7532]

the question is if I want to make a parfum would I need to be like 25 ish percent raw material dilution?

[@tarikkarabay2269]

hello for translator in Turkish please

[@BuxomBlonde2008]

Helvetolide smells like highly ripe pears to me

[@madanlal1541]

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