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from Jenny @ Perfume makingAndy always talk about the W. factor, so this time I will talk about the M. factor. The perfume for the new perfume swap of our perfume group is ready, it’s a men’s fragrance this time. I needed the M. factor to test it, and I listened to his suggestio…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingFinally I had a long weekend, I had 4 days off! I looked forward to it the whole week, but when it finally was there, I got sick…… I had a terrible cold and was so sleepy that I could sleep for hours, I only watched some TV or sat behind my PC a bi…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingIt’s wonderful that I have more time for the creation of my perfumes again. The whole weekend I was busy with experimenting. I took a closer look at my new friends, some materials I didn’t study yet. I mixed unexpectedly combinations of materials, som…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingI finally have some more time to work on my perfumes again. Last months I spent a lot of my time working on my Yahoo group, I love doing that and I love to help people, but there was no time left to work on my perfumes anymore. I decided to slow down a…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingI’m reading the book: Fragrance The story of perfume from Cleopatra to Chanel written by Edwin T. Morris, for the second time now. It’s a very interesting book which discusses the history of fragrance and fragrance materials. An intersesting part is wh…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingSometimes people ask me, what it is that I do, how I make perfume. If I tell them that perfume is alcohol with aromatic materials, a lot of times I hear the same story. They tell me that when they were little they put roses in water trying to create pe…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingMmm the scent of Oudh sometimes called Agarwood or Eaglewood is so incredible wonderful. It has all kinds of shades, it’s smokey, deep woody, a bit sweet in an intriguing way. It even has some green notes and some kind of mouldy notes. It’s hard to de…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingCan you recall the experience of touching the petals of a blossom? Doesn’t it feel soft like velvet? I thought of which name I could give to the fragrance I worked on based on the soft fresh scented magnolia combined with other white flowers like lily …
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingI have done it, yes I did! I have to admit. After the concentration of my perfume inspired by the painting ‘The Kiss’ matured and after I added the alcohol and let it stand for a while, I changed it a bit. I was not satisfied about it. O, by the way, …
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingRight now it’s raining here in Wolvega, in spite of the rain that is falling down at the moment, we had a lovely sunny weekend. I spent most part of the weekend on sniffing some of my new fragrance materials, and working on my fragrance with magnolia. …
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingSometimes your first intuition is the best. I’m working for years on the same perfume, it’s a perfume that I wanted to smell delicate, floral, smooth, gentle, soft and feminine. This perfume is inspired by the blossom of magnolia and I created it for m…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingThe ‘juice’ of my perfume inspired by the painting ‘The Kiss’ is patiently waiting to mature. The fragrant materials need to ‘pare’ with each other to become a new whole, I put it in a dark and cool place to mature. I made the juice last Monday so it’…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingSmell is a powerful thing to trigger an emotion. It’s amazing how a scent can bring back memories, how it can change the state of your mind. Some perfumes just smell nice, but some of them are so powerful and intriguing, you want to smell these perfume…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingIt’s one week ago that I started to panic about my Swap perfume inspired by ‘The Kiss’. In the mean time I tried many different versions of this perfume. I added more bergamot the last time and I like it, but I used a bit less this time and added some …
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingI’m still working on the ’swap perfume’ that I will send in for the swap that we’re doing on my Yahoo group: ‘Perfume making’, I posted about my other attempts before. We are going to create a perfume based on the painting The Kiss. I want to create a…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingThe flowers around me are so inspiring these days. I can’t get enough of smelling all these lovely fragrances. A lot of flowers are blooming in my garden and I can’t resist to smell them every time I pass by them. When I smell them I wonder in my head …
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingOn my Yahoo group Perfume Making we did our first ‘Perfume Swap’ in January this year. We sent each other our own created perfumes to get feedback about our perfumes. We did the Swap anonymously so we didn’t knew who made which perfume so we could give…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingI worked some more on my perfume based on the painting The kiss, that some of the members on my perfume making group at Yahoo are working on too. We swap it with each other and give feedback and it gives us a chance to learn from each other.I already …
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingI’m still working on my perfume inspired by the painting: The Kiss. First I work on the skeleton of this perfume, the notes that are the basics of this perfume. I used too much sandalwood the first time and toned it down a bit because I don’t want the…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingI already started with my perfume inspired by the painting The kiss (see post below). I started to create the main accord of this perfume, I used amber because I think amber translates the golden colors of this painting, one of the amber notes is labd…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingOn my Yahoo group: Perfumemaking we are doing ‘perfume swaps’. In January we did our first swap, we sent each other our own created perfumes to get feedback from each other, this is real fun because we are very curious about the creations of each other…
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from Jenny @ Perfume makingIn perfumery we talk about accords like in music you use the term chords. A chord in music is made from different tones but together they sound like a single tone or note because they have a harmony.It’s the same in perfumery; an accord is made of diff…
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