I am looking to create a deep, dry woodsy base for a fragrance. I am having trouble finding a combination of a fixative and a wood that doesn't end up just a bit too sweet.
I have the following ingredients:
Acetal (Natural)
Acetophenone (Phenyl methyl ketone)
Adoxal (Givaudan)
Aldehyde C-10...
A starting base for any perfume that is
1. somewhat "earthy"
2. yet remains translucent, light and clear.
The use of Hedione HC as the base will give it that soft, airy quality.
Initial Base Formula
Hedione HC** - 75.8%: Provides a soft, diffusive jasmine-like floral note that is very...
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My current WIP is a green-forward floral: galbanum and neroli up front with airy blue lotus, jasmine, and tuberose. Ambergris tincture is giving it excellent projection but I'm wondering how to anchor it.
I tried it with an oakmoss & violet leaf base which was nice but a more powdery...
I am looking for a special base that I keep smelling off and on everywhere I go here in America. It is raspberry sweet and extremely musky with a massive a Tonalid detergent quality about it. Creamy Lavender top notes. Extremely heavy Ambrette musky with Orcanox-like animalic creamy sweetness...
Most of the amber accords I see use vanillin, but I'm wondering if anyone has experience using vanilla absolute instead. From a brief review of some GCMS reports, it looks like vanilla absolute is roughly 10% vanillin, so it would stand to reason that you'd need roughly 10x the amount of...
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I am working on a fragrance for a friend. They have requested a sweeter gourmand with a woody/musky base. I am succeeding with the heart and top notes to bring out a strawberry, rose, champagne effect, but I am struggling to get a woody/musky drydown.
Here's what's in the base:
- Iso E...
Hi, I have been using ambergris oliffac, a mixture base from PA, and ambroxan 10%dpg. The issue is that no matter how much I put into the formula, it all comes out weak with barely any projection and sillage. Do I need more fixatives or is it another issue?
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I am studying Schiff bases in consumer fragrance and their potential for coloration. I was wondering if there are any pH conditions required for the formation of Schiff bases (for example, hydroxycitronellal and methyl anthranilate to form aurantiol). Would this type of reaction...
Hello everyone,
I am studying Schiff bases in consumer fragrance and their potential for coloration. I was wondering if there are any pH conditions required for the formation of Schiff bases (for example, hydroxycitronellal and methyl anthranilate to form aurantiol). Would this type of...
So I've been studying Maison Francis Kurdjians fragrances recently and I notice some recurring style elements in his fragrances. Especially the base notes or effect he creates in the long dry down of his fragrances. (Notably the popular BR540 does not feature this effect)
I'm obsessed and so...
Greetings. I am trying to make a perfume, using essencial oils bought from a local store. But I thought they would be only 1 single ingredient per essence.
For example: I thought If you bought 1 bottle of vanilla, the only ingredient inside would be vanilla.. Right?
But in the label it states...
I see some formulas that start with basenotes and going down with the top, is that ok to do? i mean you can do it, but this doesn't affect the way it smell?
If i make a formula with exactly same ratio of materials but in the top notes i put base, and base notes in the top i will get the same...
Hello basenoters!
This is my first time here in the DIY forum. Reading the topics here has made me want to do a fragrance for myself (Yes, I've read the Primer).
I'll try to make a fragrance with the following essential oils: Chocolate, Sandalwood, Vanilla and Musk.
I've never made any...
Excuse my newbie question, but I was wondering if anyone could help me identify a sour/tart note that appears (or lingers) in the base of certain fragrances (particularly the fougere and chypre kind). To my untrained nose, I sense some kind of green note but I might be wrong. I'm familiar with...
