Woody amber accord (perfumery tutorial vlog) 

Thanks a lot!

Great to hear, thanks

Good to know, thanks

I hope it goes well for you

Cheers mate

Sounds good!

I don’t really understand what you are asking. There’s no reason to add up to 1g, it’s just a coincidence

@@sammacer Ok. I wathced the whole video and it's all clear. Thank you Sam.

No problem :)

No problem. Often I use pre-dilutions of the raw material. These pre-dilutions are in perfumer's alcohol, so for example, 'cedarwood (10%)' would be from a bottle which was made by putting 1g of cedarwood with 9g of perfumer's alcohol (i.e. a dilution of eugenol to 10%). Now coming back to the full formula. I always weigh everything out by weight, e.g. 0.100g. However, as a method of adding a smaller amount for stronger raw materials, I use the predilution instead. By adding 0.100g of cedarwood (10%), there's only actually 0.010g of the pure cedarwood in that amount: So when you see "0.100g cedarwood (10%) in the formula, you can think of it as 0.010g cedarwood and 0.090g of perfumer's alcohol. At the extreme case with the cinnamon, this is diluted down to 0.1% because it's so strong, so I'm really adding 0.0001g of the pure cinnamon, which obviously is too small to weigh out with a pipette. I hope this helps!

@@sammacer Hi Sam, thanks for the thorough explanation. So, if I understand correctly, in this scented accord that you illustrate, in the end you use: Amber 8: 0.01 Cedar wood: 0.01 Eugenol: 0.001 Ethylene brassylate 0.03 Trimofix: 0.01 Cinnamon bark ollifac: 0.0001 Timbersilk: 0.02 it's right?

Exactly 😁

@@sammacer Thank you Sam 👍

@@fabiovalenza1929 what is the amber 8🙄

Alcohol

Exactly, it was 'redone' as you say to make it a total concentration of 10%.

@@sammacer thanks bud, as always enjoying all ur vids, working myself through all of them ✌🏻

@@srgttamtam I'm glad, hope you're well

Try mixing caramel acetate with vanillin

I would try researching how to make the separate accords and then experiment with putting them together.

@@sammacer okey

Hi Francisco. Yes I can see why it's confusing as these both sound similar. A base is the same as a premade accord. A base note accord would be an accord made out of base notes. 'base accord' most likely means an accord which in a context where it's being used as the basis for a perfume.

@@sammacer Thanks a lot, Sam. You are an excellent teacher and I am learning a lot from your videos.

@@franciscoalonso No problem, I'm glad you enjoy it

Be sure to check out my video on perfumery terminology and it should clear up most of your questions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e2i80xJ8Bsw.html. For sure you could make an accord which crosses from base to top. And yes, in your case creating an accord would be fine (though probably more accurately a 'base')

Virginian cedarwood

Check out my recent oud perfume video, that’s pretty close!