Thank you for this video! I am in Aromatherapist school and I just received my first bottle of perfumers alcohol. This video answered my questions and confirmed what I thought I already knew. The visual of the 3 types of alcohol was perfect! It was nice to SEE what happens instead of everyone just saying “dont use it”.
Everclear 190 at 95% alcohol could be use just like Perfumer's Alcohol, if you're making them for yourself, it has barely noticeable scent ( just don't get anything lower than Everclear 190 at 95%, the less the alcohol % the more you will smell the alcohol) All drinkable alcohol has more or less water, if you have something like Gin with 47% alcohol shown in her video, that means the Gin has 53% distilled water in the liquor bottle, that's why it's causing oil separations. The cloud up sometimes is due to the water and the oil, sometimes is due to the oil itself if the essential or fragrance oil is less pure, and sometimes it's just the type of oil. To me clouding isn't a huge issue for, and my customers didn't mind it at all.
@@blood_sausage9620 For people that like to find a easier available option as Everclear is more readily available than perfumer's alcohol. Perfumer's Alcohol aren't available in many cities, and I had to have it shipped from the US, or across the other side of Canada, but if course if you are using it for your business, perfumer's alcohol is a better option. I always give my local customers an option, between the perfumer's alcohol versus the Everclear, since I only make them fresh, when orders are placed. I list the lngredients for perfumer's alcohol versus the Everclear, many of them still prefer Everclear, as many of my customers prefer the least processed option. So it really depends on what you or your customers prefer really.
Thank you for doing this. I had a heated “discussion “ with someone who claimed that “any high% alcohol” was adequate for perfume. I said not. I said that the alcohol had to be denatured and specially made for perfume/eau de toilette etc. Otherwise anyone could make perfume from cheap high % vodka. I now feel like sending them this link to explain! Really appreciate your videos and your tutorials as well thought out and clear& concise. It’s such a pity that the items you recommend are prohibitively expensive for us in NZ - cost + 100% for p&p. Still inspiring!😊🌟😊
Thank you for this video. I am an amateur perfume maker but have had very good luck using the perfumer's alcohol when using synthetic perfume or fragrance oils and the Everclear - 190 proof grain alcohol - when using essential oils. You can truly make an all natural perfume if you use real essential oils and Everclear because Everclear is made from grain. One additional recommendation is to purchase an inexpensive, small stick or emulsion blender to blend your concoctions. I found that this really helps to mix the perfume oils or essential oils with the base very quickly.
Thank you so much for being generous with this particular tutorial. I don’t often watch your videos as I follow many other you tubers that are very generous with with knowledge, recipes etc.. But after this very informative video I will be watching out for your alerts.
I am just starting on this weird and wonderful journey and yours is the first video I found. Thank you so very much for taking the time to explain all this as I had no idea what is what, apart from the fragrance oil!
I was told that if a perfume gives you a headache then you are probably allergic to the alcohol used … the cheaper the perfume the worst the headache! There was a perfume in the 80’s that would almost make me throw up it was so bad. No names mentioned!
This is so nice and informative. Thank you for sharing how the different alcohols work. I wish we could magically smell this when you spray your wrist. Love this!🥰
Rubbing your wrist together actually dissipates the fragrance and its best to spray a tad higher on your arm because when you wash your hands your washing the fragrance off.
So essential oil and denatured alcohol is all you need to make perfume? What if you wanted to make a lot? How would you calculate the amounts of each? Thx very much.
I appreciate the time you took to make this video. Been trying to formulate body sprays and perfumes. Have had a lot of trouble with milky solutions. Tried the rubbing alcohol before watching this video and while it finally stayed clear, it smelled sooo awful! Definitely switching over to perfumers alcohol.
How do u avoid that milky nature of solution. And when it stands still for sometime the oil again accumulates on top means it doesn't stay dissolved. Any solutions
OMGAWD, this was so helpful! Thank you! Great video and information!! I'll definitely be supporting your Patreon! Love all of your videos! So inspiring!
Fragrance oils are for candles, soaps, etc. Pure essential oils are used for perfumery ok. Perfumer's alcohol is correct though. When making perfumes, never use more than 20% pure essential oils per volume of bottle, ok. When made properly You don't smell the perfumer's alcohol ok. As it evaporates off of the skin super quickly. All major companies around the world follow this practice. I repeat never use fragrance oils for perfumery ok. Just buy pure essential oils people.
There are specific products known as fragrance oils that are designed for the purposes he outlined above. There are really mini perfumes made with some of the same materials used in perfumery. However, they are not designed to be used as perfumes in the traditional sense. At the concentrations used in perfume can be unsafe to apply to the skin. They are meant to be used in small amounts to add scent to products used scent in the the air or be washed off. For perfumery you want to use specific aroma molecules and essentials oils designed for use in perfumery. Even then, there are guidelines and restrictions to consider.
This is awesome! Really fantastic, thank you. Is there any reason that I should not make perfumes for myself purely out of essential oils, do you think? They don't irritate my skin. Unfortunately even the most concentrated fragrances don't stay on me at all. So I need the strongest scent I can get.
Yes, 20% is my sweet spot as well. I love Rustic Essentuals perfume base. No more 75 dollar Lancôme perfume for me after I found their base. Need to try that vanilla lace pearls , thank you
❤❤❤ I’m tapping into the journey of creation, and it feels good to be confirmed!! Intuitively, I knew to purchase certain things and your demonstration was on point✨✨✨ Tfs 🌺🌺🌺
Thanks so much for your video, it is clear, concise and easy to understand. The science experiment helped me understand why it's important to use denatured alcohol made for using perfume, and was interesting to watch. Hope you are well! :)
If you use Everclear 190 at 95% alcohol there's barely any smell, and dissolved just like Perfumer's Alcohol. If you use water or less pure or certain types of essential/fragrance oil being used, it does separate that's why you need a binder, if it does separate on low alcohol % like your Gin at 47%. The lower the alcohol % the more separation you get and high in odour. An alcohol of 47% Gin has more than 53% distilled water in the Gin, which causes separation like seen if your video, which then you need a binder due to the high water level content in the Gin you use. Perfumer's alcohol also does have a slight smell to it depending on how it's been denatured, processed, and the alcohol %, but close to odourless as Everclear 190 Proof 95% I find, especially with the most common Perfumer's Alcohol. I've experimented many essential oils and fragrance oil with these, and or mixes of the different alcohol, Without water, where some essential oil or fragrance oil does cloud up, but I find higher quality ones are less likely to so. I've previously used other vodkas, and some do separate oils, becomes cloudy and with a vodka scent, with low alcohol % base. If anyone wanted just to make their own fragrance at home if perfumer's alcohol isn't available, only use "Everclear 190 with 95% alcohol" is the only one I do recommend, close to odourless, and does not cloud up on good quality essential/fragrance oil, which you maybe able to find at your local liquor store. Although others have indicated Everclear 195 also works, but we don't have it available here in my city, so I couldn't have a chance to experiment or say, if they do or not. If you don't get the True Everclear brand of 190 of 95% alc ... I can't guarantee the smell and outcome of other brands may not be the same. I also find the lower alcohol % has a very strong scent which is off putting, unlike high alcohol content of Everclear 190 95% alc. , which is barely noticeable.
If you’re making your own scent with essential oils should your fragrance oil/ fragrance oil blend be diluted (with fractionated coconut oil or something) first?- before adding it to the alcohol base? Or is the alcohol base all of the dilution it needs? Or does this vary depending on the oils used?
I'm not an expert so this is just my guess, but I would imagine that it can't hurt to dilute the essential oils first. They will be all that remains when the alcohol evaporates and depending on the oils you use, that can cause photosensitivity or things of the like. There may be a need for an emulsifier for the added carrier oil, but it is better to be safe than sorry.
I’m seeing that others use everclear which is 1% higher in percentage then the 94% gin (proof unknown) that you used. Not to add everclear is a grain alcohol & high in proof with little to no smell and not as diluted as a vodka. I was curious and experimented with the everclear that I have shelved and oils because I make soap and as I’m adding the oil I can smell the fragrance before mixing. I used 20/10/15 (three scents) and mixed. Which came out perfect and no lingering smell. The reaction with everclear would be absolutely different from using gin and just as clear as the 99% rubbing alcohol. So with the 99% alcohol, you’re speaking on the smell, couldn’t you add more fragrance oil to dilute the smell?
I love making perfume. There are so many awesome fragrances to work with! Not to mention all the blends you can make on your own! Nothing like creating your own blend and naming it! A signature scent that is unique to your company!
Do I need to add fragrance oil to my perfume oil in order to make the scents stronger and last longer? I have use organic and natural essential oil perfume oil but it doesn’t seemed to last long?
Hi , Thank you for this video. Can you also share something about how to create / extract fragrances from say flowers or leaves and How to add different notes of fragrance etc?
would you know if its possible to use alcohol with a fragrance oil in an oil roller so that it has the projecting capabilites of a spray? or should i only use an oil carrier in oil rollers
Hello, I was wondering if you could help me. I got some perfumers alcohol. And I want to make a 20oz/566g . I saw that you use 80% alcohol and 20% fragrance. But what im wondering do you still have to follow the % rate of the fragrance oil? If so, would I just up the perfumers alcohol
What if you were to use an oil as a carrier (e.g. coconut oil) with just a bit of added vodka. So more of a perfume oil than a regular fragrance. That would work, right?
Hello, thanks for your informative video. Now Im pretty sure that I want to do my own parfume. I have only one question: can I use essential oils or only eter ones? Thank you in advance for your answer
Thank you so much. Can you please re-iterate the ratio of the solvent to the oil drops ? Can I add in more oil drops ( for a stronger scent) and still get a completely homogenious solution ? ❤️🌺
Hi Lally, you are welcome. I used 20% fragrance oil to 80% perfume base. This particular base can hold up to 30% fragrance oil and still remain stable. Remember, you need to check usage rates on all fragrance oils to what the maximum rate it can be used in perfume. Sometimes it's 50% or more and sometimes it's 5% or less.
Hi Cory this is the perfume base, cause they have other ones. Question can this be use also as a body spray? Or only as perfume, You don’t need to add preservative just base and fragrance oil? Thank you for sharing.
Love your videos! Curious though… I watched your body spray tutorial too and both that and the perfume bases are both alcohol based, what would you say is the difference between the two(perfume and body spray)?
Thank you! The perfumer's alcohol can hold up to a 30% fragrance load if you wanted to go that high, the body spray base can take a maximum of 5% fragrance load.
No. Methanol is not safe to put on your skin. Besides irritating the skin, it's absorbed into the bloodstream and can cause acute CNS depression and blindness among other things.
If you were to promote your product for the consumer market. Is perfume or cologne needing FDA registration? If so what classification of registration would it be? Antibacterial soap I was told is needing a drug classification under FDA regulation, is this correct?
Good day. Thanks for your video. I have a question: Chemically, telling us to use that alcohol for perfume is not that correct because we do not know the composition and percentage alcohol in that bottle, what range of alcohol percentage should be used when making your own body perfume? The isopropyl 91% has been widely used, is it incorrect for one person to use it if he wants to go through the process from scratch?
Thanks for your great video. Is it necessary to add galoxide and DPG along with Ethyl alcohol I intend to make a perfume spray by mixing Concentrated perfume Oil + ethyl alcohol
Not sure if this will get seen, but I used perfumers alcohol, and it’s very strong in th opening with the traditional alcohol smell. Any reason why? Can I use something different. My oil smells amazing but I hate wearing it because the opening is soo harsh
