5 Beginner Perfumery Project Ideas

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Grojsman accord video: • How to make a Grojsman...
Amber accord video: • Perfumery tutorial: Am...
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Grojsman inspired perfume
03:38 - Customised amber accord
07:11 - Freeform raw materials categorisation
10:22 - Perfume inspired by art
14:12 - Fruit olfactory illusions
17:01 - Summary
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[@juanhqued]

So happy that I found this account and all your perfume courses. Already started with creating my own perfumes with help of your tutorials

[@sammacer]

Fantastic, good luck with your creations!

[@laavaneyasharma2591]

Thanks for sharing,Sam.The way you choose & explain the subject comprehensively with relevant reference to context is fantastic.Kudos keep on going. 🙏

[@sammacer]

Thank you, much appreciated

[@martinkrasovec7155]

You're a great teacher Sam. Many thanks!

[@sammacer]

Thanks!

[@justaddlight]

Those fruit illusions are actually really quite fun! I've used artwork and photographs to create music in the past, but it's interesting how quickly they morph from static images into moving storylines. I would imagine it would be the same for a perfume that evolves over time?

[@sammacer]

Yep they’re great aren’t they? And yes, the time evolution is always an interesting one and will play into the story

[@RedimAmeti]

Can you explain a bit about how you make music with artwork and photographs? That sounds really interesting

[@justaddlight]

@@RedimAmeti It generally involves the same skill set used for controlled remote viewing - connecting to a blind target set by someone else (I don't know what the artwork or photo is in advance), initiating an ideogram and beginning with low-level data specific to sound. For me, the frequencies come in series at first, then in parallel and are immediately translated into musical tones without conscious intervention. It's very much a layering/looping type deal until you start connecting to emotion in stage 4 and above. Then the harmonies can sometimes take a more fluidic turn that often mirrors the problem-action-resolution of the hero's journey. What can I say, the complexities of the mind could be infinite. The end product is usually a 5-10 minute live sonic representation of the piece on keyboard that I then turn into something akin to a jazz piece using a variety of instruments, anything from guitar, bass and flute to violin, horns and drums. I got the inspiration from Pat Metheny's album Orchestrion.

[@RedimAmeti]

@@justaddlight that is so interesting thank you for expanding on that. Would you be open to being interviewed about this? I feel like I would have a million questions - my podcast (only one episode so far) is called Stereolust

[@justaddlight]

@@RedimAmeti That's very kind of you to offer, but not at this time. Perhaps in the future.

[@superaak]

Excellent. One of best I saw to improve. Thank you 🌺

[@sammacer]

Thanks!

[@letsgetitgaming3812]

So grateful you posted this Sam! I got a slight sneak peak of it yesterday and funnily enough it was made private halfway through 😂. I’ve been In waiting since then, so thank you lol !

[@sammacer]

Haha sorry about that - someone in the discord let me know that I put a wrong info card somewhere so I had to fix it and re-upload

[@sammacer]

Haha sorry about that - someone in the discord let me know that I put a wrong info card somewhere so I had to fix it and re-upload

[@corinalymburner1121]

Your work / teachings are definitely piquing my interest to challenge my creativity, pickup a scale, a starter kit & begin dabbling in scent creations. Especially fun knowing I can resource so much info from your channel. In the late 90’s I began making & scenting my own soaps using pure undiluted essential oils & the most fun was blending & coming up with the fragrances… I got as far as selling the soaps at my local Coldwater Creek, a popular retail store at the time. Discontinued it due to time constraints having become a mom, working, etc. Now, my kids are grown & well, I have more time!

[@sammacer]

Getting your own soaps in a shop is awesome - yep the world of perfumery is much more accessible these days; I would really recommend you go for it, mixing up your own smells is super fun!

[@sammacer]

Getting your own soaps in a shop is awesome - yep the world of perfumery is much more accessible these days; I would really recommend you go for it, mixing up your own smells is super fun!

[@T_Dahil]

Thank you Sam for this great video. I tried Ionone Beta for the Grojsman base since it’s the only one I have and it turned good.

[@sammacer]

That should work fine as a replacement :)

[@christieo1761]

Very nice Sam, thanks for the great ideas.

[@sammacer]

Thank you

[@niiklaskgr7210]

Thanks for your content

[@sammacer]

Thank you

[@Reign_Of_Is_REAL]

Oh cool, this will be fun! Thank You Sifu 🙏🏽😅

[@sammacer]

Good luck!

[@joanaalmeida8115]

Great video and suggestions, Sam! I'm new here and very excited to keep watching your videos! Regards from Brazil

[@sammacer]

Thank you!

[@mv8548]

I hope you are doing well and I hope you are having fun creating KZbin videos still. We appreciate your efforts.

[@sammacer]

Thank you, much appreciated

[@daniellabuda7744]

I am trying to work with amber a little bit. Hopefully I will receive an amber or woody-amber accord by using Ambreine Natural. Fantastic video!

[@carlosromero3270]

hey Sam great video, it is a very good guide for anyone who starts in perfumery, great contribution. One more thing, I have seen your perfumery app and I find it very nice but I don't have an iphone or a mac, so I hope one day you can upload your app on playstore. In mexico carrying an iphone makes you the target of an assault is not a good option have it hahahahaha Greetings from Mexico. ✌

[@sammacer]

Hey mate, greetings to you in Mexico, would love to visit sometime. Yep, certainly wouldn't want you to get assaulted. I'm working on it but it's very complicated and will take some time! Sorry about that...

[@zenttofrizzy8479]

Hi from france, keep going 💪🏾🙏🏾

[@sammacer]

Merci

[@user-db6jh8is8r]

Thanks!

[@hafizzuhaibismail8898]

thank you very much

[@Bourbanyoshi]

Fantastic

[@wisemoon40]

Hi Sam! I ran into a problem that I hope you might do a video on. How do you handle formulas where you have different dilutions for raw materials? For example, when you have a material that has a very strong odor profile, you might want to use only a 1% dilution of that, but the other materials are fine at a 10% dilution. I got kind of hung up on the math. I'm very happy you made this video, although I had actually already kind of figured out for myself that using a perfume base, creating accords, and learning materials were three things I could start with. It's still very helpful the way that you broke it down! This will really help me avoid getting overwhelmed and stuck. Thanks!

[@wib6044]

This is the most asked question in DIY KZbin comments section so a thorough video would be cool. It’s easy when you are using 1 or 10% dilutions. You just subtract the percentage of weight from total weight. So a 1% solution weighing .200 grams would only contain .002 grams of the solution. An easier way is to move the decimal place over. So something that weighs.562 total 1% of active material would be .005. For 10% just move it over once. 10% of .562 is .056 of actual material.

[@sammacer]

Have you watched my videos on Formulair? There I explain how to use it to do all that maths automatically. That’s what I use 😊

[@wib6044]

I did! Even downloaded app! 🤦🏼‍♂️ Completely forgot!

[@mrsniper9873]

You legend Sam any idea when those little perfume kits are back in stock

[@sammacer]

Cheers mate - I’m actually working on a brand new beginners kit at the moment to replace those which should be out in the next couple of months 😉

[@michaelmeshulam6983]

Great video Sam, in the future could you do a video on a incense accord? Thanks.

[@sammacer]

I like incense a lot myself, but it’s not so simple; mostly because the term incense is as broad as the term perfume in general; there are many many different types

[@michaelmeshulam6983]

Try a couple versions, I like the sweet, a little smokey versions. I bought a incense accord that was spot on and I used it in some of my perfumers, really nice what it brought to the table. I trust your knowledge and hope you give it a go.

[@muhammedjimshad5788]

thank you for your videos, i have just started with the raw material. Got a small doubt, for the grojsman's is it okay if use methylionone gamma instead of alpha iso methylionone. cause i bought the starters from fragrance founrdy and cant buy anymore without know all i have right now.

[@sammacer]

Yes don’t worry they’re two different names for the same thing!

[@abbasalikhan]

Hi sam you suggested pre dullutions, well that is actually a great thing to save materials especially if you have small amounts however many materials smell different at different dillutions so dont you think it might be a misleading for someone new? so how to tackle this issue. Thanks for this video.

[@sammacer]

You’re right about saving materials and smelling different. What part is misleading? I’ve mentioned before I dilute most things down to 10% and 1% so you can tell the difference

[@abbasalikhan]

@@sammacer my bad, i think i missed that part. all good bro. thanks again for your amazing videos

[@lenadc3060]

Hi Sam would it work something very basic as using a top note smelling like neroli, not to put a medium note and then to add ambrettolide as a base. I love fresh sweet flowery citrus smells and then musk similar to ambrette seed. Something like nerol and then ambrettolide. Would those two work properly or I need to add something else?

[@sammacer]

The only way to know is to try it! It will come down do your personal taste :)

[@therealhussainsoomro_750D]

can you please tell any alternative for galactylite since i cant find it any whaere in my region

[@rumplebear4877]

I really love these videos. I have something i still don't understand. If i have for example 4 pre-diluted ingredients all in 10% dilutions and they smell nice together and i mixed them. Is this mixture already safe to use on the skin since it is made out of 10% dilutions? Or do i have to dilute this further? I don't really understand how much alcohol is needed in the end if you use dilutions to make a final perfume to really use on the skin. Please help me.

[@sammacer]

To check safety you would need to check each raw material against the IFRA guidelines

[@rumplebear4877]

Thank you.

[@Hosenanzugtasche]

You really are a treasure.

[@sammacer]

Thanks haha

[@vladanciaga3707]

Hey Sam, I read this in an article and now I'm intrigued: "Perfumer Jean Claude Ellena uses just four smell strips to render the definitive scent of Coca Cola in his conjurer tricks for reporters: Vanillin, plus natural essences of cinnamon, orange and lime. Et voila, Coca-Cola!" Do you think it would be possible to make this into a perfume that smells of Coke?

[@sammacer]

Fantastic! Jean Claude is known for his minimal impressions and those are pretty much the ingredients for the coke flavour so it makes sense to me. I would be interested to read the article if you have a link. And yes, you could make a coke smelling perfume that way with that as an accord, though you would probably want to build a full perfume structure around it!

[@vladanciaga3707]

@@sammacer KZbin kept deleting my reply (because of the links) so I send it to you via instagram.

[@bkakar]

Thank you. When you say "raw materials " do you mean essential oils?

[@ThriftyCrafter]

how long does the raw materials last if you arent using them? I saw they sold 10% diluted materials is it better to do it yourself because you will get more material?

[@sammacer]

I prefer doing it myself since you get more

[@danielebbage9828]

Sam can I please ask as a newbie to perfumery, with regards to essential oils …. Will commercial fragrances have small amounts of essentials in them as a rule? For example pink pepper is commonly used now across many womens fragrances as am I seeing mint used in mens. Would these be synthetic or essential?

[@sammacer]

Yes, commercial fragrances often have smell amounts of essential oils and other naturals. Mint and pink pepper would usually be naturals :)

[@danielebbage9828]

@@sammacer thanks Sam really appreciate your response! Have a great day!

[@abesebag1085]

so when you say that ideally there should be 2ml of oil and 8ml of alcohol, does that mean 2ml of diluted to 10% or 2ml of the full-strength bottles I got from perfumers apprentice?

[@sammacer]

It should be g not ml, and a percentage dilution is always a percentage of the pure raw material

[@abesebag1085]

how would you recommend fixing a perfume I made where I only used base notes and I only smell alcohol, I was going for a tobacco leather vanilla fragrance. should I add more top and mid notes, would that make it more aromatic?

[@sammacer]

Have you tried using less alcohol?

[@abesebag1085]

@@sammacer I was using 10 percent dilutions (of perfumers apprentice). So by using less alcohol you mean a lesser dilution or raw materials straight out of the bottle?

[@abesebag1085]

hey quick question, do you predilute all materials. or do you use straight out of the bottle when you are trying to create. i made a perfume with only diluted to 10% materials and it didn't smell like anything

[@sammacer]

I mostly use 10% dilutions, yes. If that’s the case, maybe there’s something wrong with your materials or the composition had too many base notes.

[@abesebag1085]

​@@sammacer i only used base notes in that fragrance lol. how would you recommend I fix the perfume right now I only smell alcohol. thank you for responding

[@RoyalGuardEziode]

​​@@abesebag1085f you only smell alcohol then make sure you're not diluting a material that is already prediluted. For example, from pellwall or perfumers apprentice, some things are already diluted at 10% and maybe don't need further dilution. If it's not that, maybe you have olfactory fatigue and were either sniffing raw materials or alcohol too much and not giving your nose a rest. Or maybe the material you're using is so strong even at 10% that you go nose blind to it really quick. Then some materials are very "transparent". Benzyl salicylate for example and even iso e super which some people can't detect even raw. What materials are you using may i ask? Another thing to note is that it's not wrong to have only base notes or a majority of heart/top notes. There's not any real rules besides ifra. But a lot of base notes don't have a lot of diffusiveness and they stay close to the skin. This is accentuated even more if you're using something like dpg, a carrier oil, or ipm to dilute rather than alcohol

[@RabbitOfAutumn]

What's the difference between your raw materials and essential oils?

[@sammacer]

Essential oils are a subclass of raw materials

[@yalondaferebee1143]

I want to learn how to make perfume ....but I want to dilute it so I can ultimately make a perfume oil...... instead of it being perfume in a spray bottle if that makes sense. How would I go about achieving this. 🤔

[@yalondaferebee1143]

I have sensitive skin is it possible to make a perfume but adding maybe a carrier oil to the perfume. I want to make a perfume oil to use with roller balls.

[@sammacer]

In that case, every time I mention alcohol, use your oil instead.

[@Rarararara]

Noice

[@Cyrustehranyparfum]

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