Perfuming Basics

[violetsky]

See the geranium bourbon/reunion I thought might be the best to use because it is sweeter and

I worried about the headyness or deepness of all these lucious scents..your right it's very up

there..
Wow LEMON? i think i avoid it alot..for some reason

even though i dont really hate it per se, i use it only in 3 blends.. which rose variety to achieve the richness you describe?
The orris root is because it just so dern witchy..smells alot like violets..good fixative..and

associated with the Moon. Im goin for a scent that reminds me of Salem...wow what a place..we went the week AFTER

halloween..sadly my husbands bus. trip couldn't fall right on it...but its a very very interesting town. The

fragrances in the air drove me wild..they all had some verison of these ingredients...the ones with musks and what

must have been benzoin aphrodisiac were really intoxicating to me. My husband even commented on how the smells in

every store subconsciously suggest eroticism...here and there i kept saying they were unconsciously trying to get me

to just run naked through the street with a tamborine..lol

[DrSmellThis]

I use bulgarian concrete for

that effect these days, but really I just smell the rose oils and pick one. One always stands out as being what you

are looking for. Lemon, as with orange, goes very well with frankincense. It also goes well with rose (which

obviously goes well with your chosen oils, too), as anyone who has smelled lemony roses knows. I had a wild idea

about "rock rose" (labdanum) being similar that way, or at least being "willing to be talked into it". Come to think

of it, I did once create a perfume that was lemony with labdanum that turned out nice -- like a dessert

sherry.

If you have a heady mix already, more heady things might not make it moreso; but might just

create a unified effect with depth and breadth; a perfume that refuses to apologize for itself. A great

perfume, like any great work of art, is one single idea. Of course, what that idea is comes from your own

singular imagination, not another's advice.

I know what you mean about recipes. I am also limited by not

wanting to divulge too much, as any perfumer will pretty much lose the ability to pay rent by divulging their most

teasured formulae, or even a signature combination used in various creations. But if I know I'll never market a

scent I can feel better about giving it up. How do you sell your stuff, violetsky?

I can liquify benzoin in 4

seconds in my microwave! So yeah, go easy on the nuking.

Salem, huh? Ooooooooooo, witchy woman!