Perfumery Basics: Fragrance Pyramid Percentage Rules - Myth Debunked 

I actually really like perfumes that are Basenote heavy. So thick, warm, cozy! I love fall and winter fragrances 🤤

Glossier you?

What volume did you make the fragrance with basenotes? 100ml? 30ml?

I love this! I like wearing Aramis to bed year round 😊 About to try my hand at making my first EDP

thank you! :)

And there no wrong way in doing it this way. It just shows you like crisper, cleaner, vibrant scents if you tend to like top note heavy fragrances. Classics like Davidoff Cool Water is primarily all top notes and very little base. But if your looking for a good scentless fixative to extend your top notes a bit longer, check into Cremophor RH40 or Glucam P20. Adding a bit of that in your complete fragrance will keep the top notes from fleeting away so fast.

WTH posted three replies and they are not posting! Thanks for the reply.

I would most definitely buy from you if you made one

You should. I'm working on mine this year after wanting to do this for 20 years. Take business classes and fragrance classes and do plenty of research on suppliers.

​@@ASMRyouVEGANyet Kindly lets connect , I am also an aspiring perfumer .

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I guess that's a secret that many are not aware of. Not a regimented kind of thing.

An excellent idea for a video! I'll mark this for something to record within the next weeks to come :)

Actually I don't think I scrolled that far yet! Just saw some vids that will fit that bill. Thanks again you rock!!

Awesome 👍😎 I'll be looking out

Exactly. Linearity plays a good factor in the scheme of things regarding top-middle-base pyramid. There are so many factors that can alter the pyramid, and new comers thinking they need "xxx%" of a total of top/middle/base materials will only pigeon hole themselves into all their scents performing them same and having the same vibe

@@bkscents7050 I'll even virtually go 50-50 so for example would be my Russian Leather fragrance Birch and Galbanum can be quite the sopranos in the fragrance and then it quickly shifts to a warm leathery bass with Castoreum leather and a different type of wood again Virginian Cedarwood. So I'm not really thinking of three levels in a leather fragrance. The opening is quite fresh somewhat antiseptic and astringent very clean with a luxurious warm dry down quite masculine.

@@bkscents7050 hello i wanted to ask you, i’m in france and here there’s a website named quosentis and they sell prediluted raw materials, Is it safe to buy?

I sort all of mine (I now have over 500 materials) the same you you do. I classify them by category. Citruses, woods, resins, florals, greens, herbals, ozonic, musk's, etc.

@@bkscents7050 Awesome, thank you.

Damn right! 👍

Writing down your formula so you can recreate it should be one rule, if any

@@nickkerinklio8239 agree But for those getting started it's more important to experiment and have fun than worry about perfection. In the end perfumery is indeed a perfect amalgamation of art and science. Science teaches you the ruless, and art teaches you to forget them.

Wow....well said!

You can use any percentage because it's a art

And I think if you wish to make long lasting than use base note

@@Beginners07 i just want a linear olfactory,one type of scent that if i sprayed it,i will only smell one type of fragrance,but my concern is that if i focused on that,the projection is not that good,just like sandalwood doesnt project that much

@@mi-vy8xm do experiments

Material odor strength is covered in another video. But Galaxolide is a low odor strength, meaning you can dose it quite high before its scent is perceived. Indole and Cis-3 Hex are higher odor strength, thus these amounts should be kept lower in your formula because in low amounts its very detectable

@@bkscents7050 Yeah, I saw your video on that. (Great, BTW.) I meant that the whole perfume pyramid myth seems misleading because it doesn't make clear if it's referring to material strength by Notes, or by material weight by Notes. Example: does 30% top Notes refer to weight (3 grams out of 10 grams of fragrance concentrate), or does it refer to 30% of the materials odor strength? Also, wasn't the fragrance pyramid more of a historical fragrance technique developed far in the past before synthetics were so widely used?

@@JayMannStuff The ol' fragrance pyramid is in terms of any value of 'amounts' really. Weight, volume, drops etc....but it never was intended for "odor strength". The fragrance pyramid just gives a general idea of approx how much materials leans into which of the 3 sections (top/mid/base) respectively with one another, which general refers to 'amounts', in which can be by weight, volume, or drops. Its such a vague and widely misinterpreted structure, which is why i tend to not even bother referring to the pyramid because it can be perceived in so many different ways depending on whos interpreting it.

@@bkscents7050 Thanks. Yeah, makes sense. Oh, btw, I downloaded the spreadsheet tool you made. I've been trying to rework it to create volatility graphs for all materials to show how the fragrance evolves over time, hour by hour, taking into consideration the amount of material and the odor strength of the material, also showing the percentage of each of the 26 fragrance families. There's also a really nifty search tool with dynamic drop-down lists to help come up with fragrance sketches easily. Tool is WIP. Can't wait to share it. Cheers. EDIT 2: The spreadsheet re-working I'm doing isn't to improve upon the one you did. Your spreadsheeet was great for documenting the formula and checking IFRA compliance. The spreadsheet I'm designing is meant for quickly coming up with a way to visualize a "Perfume Sketch/Concept" without wasting any materials. A way to preview and prototype without using materials, so you don't just go in blind and end up wasting time and money and getting frustrated. (It'll probably be more useful for newbies like me. I'll share on comments of your spreadsheet video once it's ready.)

Bhai don't use Galaxolide. It's harmful. I'm using musk oil instead. You can also try Glucam P20.

Lol yeah it was! It made everything so wobbly like an acid trip!

but I love the message here, thanks anyway.

Don’t forget ruh khus (green Indian vetiver). Cheers

if you have skin irritation you dont need to buy alcohol base perfumes but oil base perfumes should be your priority.

Thicker woods i meant more dense, robust, heartier woods that carry a stronger impact. Woods like Oakwood, guiacwood, oud/agar, are considerably stronger than the typical woods used in cleaner scents like cedar, sandalwood, cypress, etc

I agree....these were some of my earlier videos where I was still figuring out what the right ratio of background music to voice was. My later more recent videos I (hopefully) cleared all that up and should be an enjoyable experience.

@@bkscents7050 I only just discovered your channel and diy perfumery and I'll check out your recent work :)

Yes....Alberto Morillas who has done hundred of mainstream designer fragrances does not have a degree in chemistry (as far as I've read)