Which ALCOHOL do PERFUMERS use? 

Thanks for pointing this out!

I have never seen this. Do you know of brand names?

@@jamiewelch6779 me neither. Not in Alaska. 😢

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Glad you liked it :)

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It sounds like it could be okay

Alcohol, but of course the concentration of fragrance will decrease

If you only use DPG, it won’t have the correct evaporation profile for a perfume

Thank you! Good luck with your perfumery. You can check out the vlogs I did in December since I think I filter something there. I sell the funnels and filter paper on my online store if you need them!

@@sammacer Thank you much I'll look into that!

@@sammacer available in india..?

Eau de parfum generally has 15-20% essential oils

Thank you! And yes, that sounds about right for water

Thanks! I would think they end gradually

Glad it helped

I have no experience with detergents, sorry!

not ready depend on how you used as long it safe for skin

Not really since I only make alcoholic perfumes. Maybe one day?

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Glad the video helped! And I would think you could just click the link to rejoin :)

@@sammacer it wasn't working. It didn't work on my wife's account either so I figured it was at the IP level.

Everything I use dissolves in ethanol, what are you having trouble with?

@@sammacer I've had a few essential oils (most recently ylang-ylang, cypress, and Brazilian rosewood) that form a very fine (unfilterable with medium speed filter paper) cloudiness when combined with ethanol, particularly at around 10%. Musk ketone is only soluble to 1.8% in ethanol (I know you mentioned you don't personally use that). BB is supposed to be a better solvent for it. One of the big things that happened recently was when working with aldehyde C-12 Lauric where it just completely fell out of solution a few days after making my dilution series. After poking around on Base Notes a bit, it sounds like this isn't really a solubility issue per se but a problem that aldehydes in general, and C-12 lauric in particular, have if kept too concentrated or refrigerated where they form a solid trimer which can't be reversed. Very disappointing, but my supplier is replacing that which I got from them with a new lot.

Yep, it’s the just the amount of alcohol you add 😊

Yes

I would not use either of these bases. Just use pure alcohol directly with your raw materials

@@sammacer It’s very hard to find pure alcohol in America. I saw some sugar cane alcohol but I really don’t know exactly how it works. BTW, if I add water in to alcohol, do I need to add preservative and DPG?

They are widely used base notes, and yes, I guess they might be considered fixatives too

Well I haven’t used it myself so I don’t have a good reference. I can’t imagine the lift off the skin is much different but I can certainly imagine there being off notes like vodka due to the different production process

You’re right - these effects are very real and not subjective. But there are downsides to adding water too: it can cause reactions which you may not want and changing the evaporation rates based on polarity doesn’t necessarily give a better effect, it could also lead to a worse experience. So what I’m trying to say here is that if you want to add water you should test it for your specific blend to see if it yields an improvement rather than assume it will always improve it

I would find it interesting to know if you could increase volatility of base notes. To increase their projection.

Did the hand sanitizer grade work for you?

@@jewchainz613 yeah. It's good

Where did you get ambroxan

No

I always use different suppliers so can’t recommend one, and in the UK it’s a little different, actually called TSDA-1 here, I forgot to mention in the video

I always use different suppliers so can’t recommend one, and in the UK it’s a little different, actually called TSDA-1 here, I forgot to mention in the video

I’m not too sure since I haven’t tried, but I think people usually put the fragrance concentrate directly into the product base

I've read that "organic" vegetable glycerin helps attach the oil and alcohol..

Thanks!

I don’t know about suppliers in Nigeria unfortunately

No

Most welcome

It sounds like it should be okay

Hey, did it work out well? I'm from Portugal also and going to do the same.

You’ll have to check with the manufacturer, I wouldn’t know. Most perfumes use denatured alcohol.

Also I know this is out of topic, but what can you recommend as an effective fixative and moisturizer (if ever you are using one in your products) for perfumes? I have seen a lot of articles about DPG but then comments from perfumers said it is a big no for perfumes so I'm confused to what to use. I hope you can help me.

Yes TDSA 1 is the equivalent in the UK so use that :)