Building your perfumery raw materials collection 

This has to be one of the most useful videos on perfumery. Anyone interested in perfumery may about the popular notes, how they work together and as such many know mostly about essential oils. Since perfume makes only mention notes. I know 15-20 aroma chemicals after a lot of research but I didn't know which ones were the common ones in perfumery.

I’ve been binging your content since I found your channel yesterday. I wanted to thank you for providing insight and transparency to what can be a rather mysterious art. I also wanted to thank you because I am a composer, and had reached a rather difficult artistic roadblock in the music I have been writing recently, but was able to find clarity and a sort of “missing piece” in my thinking through entering the art of perfumery through your channel.

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You nailed this again brother. I always eagerly wait for your videos. Very informative and content is like secret. I always learn something new .

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Thank you for this video Sam. It was really helpful for me!

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Spot on as usual. Thanks Sam.

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You my inspiration, I am at the beginning stage and the way you explain is just gold thank you for this valuable information.

Fabulous video ,. Aroma from heaven,.

Tq sam. I watch several video of yours and it’s help me learn from basic to how to make it accord using scale.

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imho two of THE most important materials are Cornflower/or the closely related Chicoree flower. obviously these are hard to get (some co2 extracts from the other side of globe).. cornflower is widely aiable in apothecarys as hydrolate.. meh water.. but yeah, oh and chicory roots are sold under the name "kasni" its an aryuvedic term for chicory roots.. so i use them for the flowers, so why roots then? because i found other parts of plant can be used interchangeably- SO: these two named materials do boost the presence of EVERY single other flower.. say you decided to use only rose as your flower.. and imho, flowers can hardly be left out in a good perfume, they add presence.. so, then you may find that many roses are not quiet enough present to do what the flowers are supposed to do.. thats true for many many other flowers, they almost give you the presence (or many white flowers may give presence but add a strong milky kinda quality that i personally find overshading many things)) .. SO: the most important two flowers , cornflower and Chicory Flower , added roundabout 1/3 to the Flower you want to "boost" and to make "present" , will like said make the flower like rose, geranium,tagetes, you nema it SHINE. Also the sole use of the said two flower will be amazing.. Imho those two materials are THE most important in perfumery actually, but totally forgotten. THIS IS MY SPECUALTIVE OPPINION. Its no claim. but thats what i feel.. they boost every single flower out there.. Ylang ylang has also a tiny amount of this presence boosting qualities, but its not on that level.. Also st.johns wort i like for those presence-qualities, but it cant be used to bosst red-tinted (or orange, or not even on yellow) flowers.. it can only be used to boost purple flowers, like say malve.. so you hear i use special materials. i do this because i have special way to find my materials. and yeah, the most imprtant two flowers are like said above. cornflower, and chicory flower.. nothing comes close.. they make your perfume so much more present WITHOUT making it "milky-smelling"..

Of these Aroma Chemicals - it would be great to know which are Naturally Derived vs. Chemically Derived - for people who want to steer clear of things like ISO E Super and other chemicals like that... :) This is really cool!!

Hi Sam. Do u have a video where u make a perfume from start to finish. Like creating a new perfume. If not then i think it going to be a good idea to see the whole process which also includes adding the solvent the the concetrate and maybe bottling as well. Thanks so much really enjoying your videos.

Thank you for your content. Awesome information. Can you do a step by step tutorial on how to mass produce product at home? That would be amazing

Do those raw materials have and expiration date? How long do they last? Keep up the good work. Thank you

If would be great to do a list of eg the most common fixative blenders etc. It would an easy way for beginners to use them.

Hey Sam out of curiosity, I’m looking of some materials to buy off perfumers apprentice and am wondering if the smaller size bottles of 4ml etc… is worth getting or not? I just don’t know how much to get. Let me know your thoughts, if you mentioned it in the video already I apologize for not catching it. Thanks man!! Looking forward to learning perfumery. Something I have been wanting to do for so long and you sparked my interest again and have given me answers to a lot of the questions that I had in the first place that prevented me from perusing it.

hi Sam, I have a question regarding Vanillin, I ordered some, and just by opening the plastic drum it came in, and possibly having a few particles flecked off on my clothes, I could smell vanillin all day, I then prepped a 11% solution by weight using 100% etoh as solvent, now I found this concentration to be slightly irritating to my throat and nose immediately after spraying, but then the main issue is that I can barely detect the smell of vanillin anymore! am I getting anosmic to it? do you, and others, experience anosmia with vanillin? what's a good working concentration for vanillin? also, do I have to refrigerate it or can I keep it at room temp?!

If you're in America and want a kit to start up I think the best available is Perfumers Apprentice kits. My first buy ever for perfumery was their beginners naturals kit. Really good quality and pricing. Creating Perfume used to have good ones too but aren't doing them atm unfortunately. If you're in UK the best kits are from Pell Wall. Actually Pell Walls are the best all around imo and I'm jealous that I can't afford the shipping for them lol. But if you have the extra money to spare I'd still do it even living in America. I'm ordering from Pell Wall someday for the extensive range of pyrazines though, only place I can find them! He sells that Superpowers kit with tons of pyrazines and other hard to find stuff. I'm dying to get it.

im wondering where did you learn all of this things,youre such an amazing guy,thank you so much brother🙏

Hi, Sam. Great video!! If I want something that smells like cherry what should I look for?

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Hey there,i live in ethiopia where there is no perfume making raw material so would you please help me on getting the raw material please

Why does every set in a scent video have to have a guitar in the backround?

Why oh why is Perfumer's Alcohol such a difficult hassle to get a hold of here in Sweden... :( It's the only thing stopping me from getting into all of this...

is it possible to order directly from the scent manufactures?

I love your channel, you keep things very precise but offer a little bit of nuance. However, i dont think most people should buy those "kits". Often, there important peices missing, nothing to offer on how to use them, or alot of the ac's offered are redundant. As well some of them come pre-diluted, shouldnt get anything pre-diluted unless necessary (i.e. phenylacetic acid which is regulated in its pure form), also they do not offer any education as to synonyms in theor kits (ie cedryl methyl ether aka "cedramber") I would honestly send them to basenotes there are quite a few posts on beginner ac's with input from guys like b. Korn, p.kiler, amd d.ruskin. on what synthetics and naturals should come first, as well as the tgsc demo formulas.