Making your own perfume
Most people have a special fragrance they like to call their own, but prefer to own a few different perfumes for variety at special occasions. But what you really want is to have your own scents that nobody else can match exactly. You want people to have pleasant thoughts of you whenever you enter a room. In making your own perfume, you can accomplish this, typically at a much lower cost than you typically pay designer perfumes now.
One of the great facets of making your own perfume is the infinite number of fragrances you can create. It isn't all that difficult to make perfume. You just need some inexpensive equipment and some empty perfume bottles. You can thoroughly wash old perfume bottles to save yourself the hassle of finding new bottles.
As far as ingredients, the best options are typically a good set of essential oils. Essential oils are now readily available in many aromatherapy stores and alternative products stores. This is what makes it so much easier to make perfume than it used to be. As an added side bonus, often the people who work in these stores will know information they can share with you about how to make perfume.
Most importantly, the people who work in these stores can give you recommendations for fragrances. The fragrances you choose should match your goals. You probably have an idea of what scents you like, but you may not know what ingredients provide you with these scents. There are plenty of good options for making your own perfume among the most readily available essential oils, such as benzoin, bergamot, clary sage, grapefruit, jasmine, lavender, patchouli, and sandalwood.
Making a perfume you like may take some trial and error, but it isn't difficult. It is simply a matter of mixing drops of the essential oils that smell the best to you into a beaker. The trial and error comes in finding just the right proportions of each oil to put into the perfume to get just the right fragrance. Be sure to record the process you take, so you can remake any perfume you create.
Once you have the right mixture, you'll want to add Jojoba oil or another carrier oil to preserve and allow proper dissipation of your perfume. Simply make the amount of perfume you want. Then pour it out of your beaker and into your perfume bottle. You have your own perfume.
If you want to try to copy a perfume, you may be able to find information about possible ingredient ratios on the Internet. There is actually quite a bit of information scattered around the Internet about how to make perfume. This can be a valuable resource of information, particularly in terms of which essential oils make the best perfume ingredients.
If all of this sounds too intimidating for you, there is an easier way. You can purchase perfume making kits. These kits have plenty of essential oils and some instructions on how to make your own perfumes. This may be a good place to start before you get into doing it all by yourself.