i tried making a perfume a few months back thinking it was the same as making e-liquid and boy was i wrong. it was so strong it brought tears to my eyes when i smelt it. thankfully now ive bein researching and have a better understanding of mixing formulas and with such videos as these its helped me massively. ive bein watching this lets say series of videos and bein writing formulas down and tweaking as i go. another great video.
Even for people like me who have been pursuing this hobby for years there always something new to learn from your tutorials. Great job. Keep it up. You rock BK 👍
I've been watching your videos in between recording and mixing sessions for a cover song I've been working on. I just got to the part of your video where you said "Stop copying other people" as I've been sitting here all day trying to recreate a mix of a song that I love, all while I had a perfect mix of my own already. This is a mentality to carry all through-out any creative passion. Your advice not only helped me with my music, but it's helping to set the foundation for my journey into perfumery.
As a musician I understand. When I used to mix my songs, I would play a Chris Lord Alge playlist, and try to balance mine like his. But at the end of the day, it wasn't making my music any better....it just was lumping it into something someone has already sonically heard before and wasn't creatively my own. If you want to succeed, you have to do something that hasn't been done before.
@@bkscents7050 Chris Lord Alge is a great reference for mixing. As with music, I cannot expect professional results when I'm limited by my tools and knowledge when it comes to perfumery. It will be a lot of trial and error, experimentation, and hard work. I'd love to hear your music sometime!
Thank you for your help, making my own fragrance is on my bucket list and this video is perfect. I live in Florida and I wanted a fresh fragrance to create but I needed a base to tweak and make my own. Thank you so much. Much respect to you and to all perfumers!
I’ve been watching your videos since I started perfumery because they’re the most informative on RUclips. I noticed your last video was 7 months ago and am wondering if you’re still doing RUclips.
Hello, thank you for all your videos always touch on interesting and useful topics. most formulas have many components and it is not possible to have them all at hand, I wonder if you will have some list of substitutes because I have not been able to get information about it. thank you in advance for your help.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I would very much appreciate a video that specifically addresses ways to increase the longevity of the perfume. I know you've done videos about musks and some fixatives, and they were really helpful, but I wondered if there are other ways or other compounds that can be used to make scents longer-lasting? I have made some beautiful scents that I'm really happy with, but even though I've added galaxolide, Iso E Super, hedione, etc., I have a lot of trouble getting the scent to last more than an hour or so. I imagine that is a very common beginner's problem...I also imagine it's a common "veteran's" problem, too, because commercial scents seem to have that problem often as well... Thanks!
This is a problem of all yes. I think this: you have know and add also all that single molecules that are ok for your blend and one after one will increase again and again, or I don't know.
longevity has to do with choice materials that.....wait for it....last a long time, lol. But its a balancing act of these long lasting materials, with the "not so long lasting" materials that make up a complete perfume. If you make a formula using nothing but musks, woods, resins, etc...your gonna get a very long lasting scent, but that scent wont project at all because most long lasting scents sit closer to the skin. Its the top/mid material that usually do the projecting. Again, its a balancing act of a lot of materials in the top/mid/base and there is no real way to answer this because this problem is a case-by-case basis depending on what materials where used in the full perfume formula. There is no "one trick solves all" in this issue. The whole formula has to carefully thought out in all stages from beginging....to drydown.
@@bkscents7050 Wow, thank you so much for the clear and informative reply. This is the best and easiest-to-understand explanation I've found so far, and I really appreciate you taking the time. This actually makes sense, and I truly haven't found clearer direction on this! I can see, now, why even commercial perfumers may not produce a long-lasting fragrance since, as you explained, the problem becomes "case by case," depending on the materials used and the balance between them. Okay, I am going to continue with this new knowledge, but now if I continue to struggle with this, at least I know I'm in good company. :)
Thanks a lot for great information it helps a lot for new beginners like us . Kindly tell us how to increase intense amount of sillage in any perfume Plzzzzz Thanks. Love your efforts love your work . I know its shares lot of similarities between projection but sillage is the thing i am looking for years . Often I can’t understand your accent clearly but i do rewind and watch again and again .
I just started watching your videos. Do you have a video explaining the percentage breakdown of these formulas? Not sure if I'm phrasing that right but in this formula you have a list of ingredients and numbers beside them what does that mean?
Hi BK my name is Nikhil, from India. This video is such a knowledgable video for the upcoming perfumers like me. If you dont mind can you explain how to get the formula values in the formula column . i have been searching for these in your all videos but i didn't get it anywhere. what i mean is how do you take those values out of 1000. Like Ambroxan 14/1000. How to get those values. can u please explain it. Thanks by the way. And what do you mean by those formula values. how can we use in terms of grams or drops.
Great video as always! I’m trying to watch all of your perfumery videos because they are so in depth and helpful. My favorites are your Live mixing ones. I’m 19 and just getting into perfumery . I’m wondering how old were you when started this hobby?
Love your videos. Have you done a video on how perfumes become different colors without just dying it? Wondering how natural colored perfume becomes super dark almost opaque sometimes.
I think Calvin Klein almost always succeed with their summer ones! This/past year reminds me of a good one could be 2001-2 or 2003. L'eau par kenzo is also a fresh one I could buy again! Herrera - Chic, mmm yumm!
Sir first of all thank you very much for your information, kindly upload the formula to make a industrial fragrance like suitable for phenyle, detergent n floor cleaner,
Hi BK, this was so informative, thank you. I am new to perfume and have a few questions. I'm hoping to get in touch with you directly, do you have a website or can you advice a secure way to get in touch? Thank you!! Ellie
Hey, very informative videos, thanks for propagating such good information, I would like to know something that no one has talked about on youtube, can you please tell me how to categorise the details of the ingredients that are mentioned at the back of the perfume box, with respect to this formula, and if we make above formula do we need to take 20% or 30% (as required) formula and add in 80% or 70% ethanol to complete 1000ml of perfume. if I need to make 10 bottles of 100ml, how should proceed? kindly help me through this.
There are plenty of formulas on the Net for diffusers that sound interesting. Can they be adapted to an essential oil perfume? I haven't actually attempted any yet, just thought I'd ask you before I begin. Which reminds me; thank you for your informative videos. They have inspired me to maybe make an attempt. Stay safe.
Yes....and no. Formulas are made specifically for the intended end application, either it be a air diffuser, roll on, lotion, soap, alcoholic perfume spray, etc. If you tried a Air diffuser formula for something like a alcoholic perfume spray....youll find it may smell nice...but probably wont perform as you would like.
Hey, great videos. I'm learning a lot, and I'm a chemical engineer so we kind of *should* have learnt this at university! Can I ask you a couple of questions? 1. Is there a dabase with similar industry formulas? For example, a database where people propose and share ways to do a perfume that's similar to "Le Mâle" or "Orange Verte" from Hermès, etc. 2. Do you have a tutorial on how to interprete GS-MS results from perfumery perspective? Thanks!
Unfortunately there is no such database that shares formulas for designer fragrances like Dior, Chanel, Hermès, etc....these are all trade secret and kept unpublished for security reasons that they don’t get cloned by clone makers trying to make duplicates and sell them for cheaper.
This might be a beginner question, but for example, is 10mg of a material diluted to 10%, the same as 1mg of the same material undiluted at 100%? Or does different dilutions give materials different effects when adding to a blend, even if the quantity is adjusted to match the concentration percentage? Because when replicating formulas, I would sometimes adjust all the material quantities based on 10% dilutions, since I usually have my materials diluted at 10% Thanks in advance!
What are binding oils or stuff people say make the oils mix (breaks down molecules) and the things that bring out or makes the oil essence stick or wear on skin better, disburse over time/absorb better into skin. Is this from the carrier oils?
Hey BK! I know you haven't uploaded in a while, but do you have any resources anywhere that point to a natural & aromachemical essentials list for beginners? Trying to purchase materials that would be truly essential for a men's perfumery beginner.
Question: If I expose the absolute to heat, does it damage the formula? Because every time I use the absolute of Labdanum, I have to heat it up a bit, in order for it to melt enough so I can use it. Thanks in advance. Love your content!
Mg comments is very late, but a simple tips. Put some luke warm water in a bowl, and put the bottle inside while swirling it gently. Don't put boiling water though!
Hi BK! Thank you so much for such a wonderful video, this is just one men"s fresh formula if i have to play with other fall fragrance formulas then can you plz guide me how to get these demo formulas? So that I can play with different perfumes by tweaking them with my own style. Thank you
The easiest way is to google things like “Givaudan demo formula” or “IFF demo formula”....your search result will pull up a few PDFs that have these perfume demo formulas from the big house producers of fragrance materials
BK, i don't know if I'm seeing things or is that ingredient PPT only goes to 876? Because you total it to 1000 but i added them for a total of 876 part per thousand
hi . I use ready-made essential oil in perfume making. Do you have any suggestions for me to increase the spread and staying power when I spray the perfume? The formula I used: for 50ml : 20ml essential oil 29ml alcohol (96 degrees alcohol) 1ml water Thanks.
The best way is to follow IFRA guidelines. youll have to go to the IFRA website and look up each material you used in your fragrance, and their website will tell you what is the Max allowed for each material that can be used before it becomes a potential allergic reaction.
What musks do you recommend that can work as base notes and not THAT expensive? I have zenolide but it smells so faint (I use my fragrances in wax based deodorants) ..
@@bkscents7050 Thank you for prompt reply, perhaps I could not asked correctly. Why so much amount when formulation is going to be ultimately in ethanol.
Well, in this demo formula....the formula is displayed in the video description for those who use raw materials (and there's a section of DPG to show total dilutants so the formula totals 1000). But in all honesty, anyone can work this formula as intended with any material being prediluted at any level they like. They just have to do the math to figure it out.....or it would be even super easy to simply use the formula spreadsheet calculator that I use, which is also available for sharing/download in one of my older previous videos
Hi! Can you please make a video dedicated to finishing a product with perfumers alcohol? Also which alcohol to get. I saw in one of your video's you use SDA 40B 200 proof, but what does it mean? And where do you buy this? I can't find this in the Netherlands so I have no idea what to get... Besides the perfumer's alcohol, can you explain what Base de Parfum is? (getting sold at perfumersapprentice.com)
Sandalwood oil and sandalwood essential oil are the same. But there are many types of sandalwood essential oil that can come from different places of the world, and they all smell a little bit different. My current favorite synthetic sandalwoods are Dreamwood Base, Javanol and Bacdanol
I always just bought 10-15ml samples to start with to familiarize myself with it. Then on the next purchase, I'd buy bigger quantities depending on if I found myself using it a lot....or sparingly/randomly. Some items I now buy 200-500g of....and some I only buy 4ml of if it's super strong and needs to be heavily diluted before use. This is something you will eventually learn once you start using the materials and know what a proper doseage would be of that material.
Hi BK, how did you dilute your Suederal LT? I tried to dilute it in perfumers alcohol but it doesn't mix completely. It turns into a small bubble at the bottom of the solution. I tried the same with DPG but got the same result.
Why do I smell perfume like a gas? Does the commercial perfume contains gas? Just buy a bottle of perfume and the ingredients contain butane, propane, isobutane.. could you please enlight me about this?
Hello! I’m working only in grams and I can’t understand how to transform the formula which is in parts per 1000 to the grams. And how to keep the ratio while adding new materials to the formula. Hope it’s not totally stupid question))
Check out one of my other videos on "perfume formula worksheet calculator". There's a link where you can access this doc and start using it. It does all the calculations and math for you
Anna, not a stupid question- the math is kinda hard. After u get a formula, then u have to dilute to make the version u want to actually spray on your body. More math. I cant answer your question but make sure you have a scale that goes out 3 decimal places (thousanths). Have fun blending.
Hey I just made some perfumes using some essential oils, galaxolide and perfumers alcohol but I can see some white sediments floating in it could you plz help me why is this happening and how to fix this ?!
it will all depend on what oils you used, and what your final perfume concentration was. There are some essential oils that can be cloudy or not very soluble in alcohol until it hits a certain dilution threshold.
Could you please do a material spotlight on vanilla… vanilla is so hard to get right and I’d love to know how to do it… in a novel or non conventional way…. I love vanilla but the way it normally smells is overwhelming and sometimes sickening. I recently smelled this soap that was lily and vanilla planifolia extract and it smells fresh and fruity and full, not like I’ve ever smelled vanilla… not remotely sickening… soft and silky….I’d love to know how it could be approximately replicated….
Vanilla can be tricky, cause its pretty potent! For the most part, my go-to vanilla materials will be vanillin powder, ethyl vanillin or isobutavan. But for the most part you have to dose these low at first to truly understand their power. If you are familiar with traditional perfume formulas and ratios, try using just vanillin powder at 5 parts per 1,000 in a full perfume formula to gauge what a lower dose would smell like. It should sweeten up the whole perfume in a discrete way. And then if its not sweet enough....try the same formula again with vanillin at 10 parts per 1,000 to understand the difference of its dosage.
@@bkscents7050 seems so overwhelming…. Like the possibilities of what proportions of ethyl maltol and vanillin and isobutavan…. The permutations seem astronomical. Specifically this is the scent of a soap, it has no corresponding fragrance that I’ve ever smelt. But whenever I smell that soap on my hands I just keep thinking…. I wish this was a perfume, I’d buy a million of them. And then I wonder to myself what if I could recreate this, maybe mess with it a little, try different lily scents….etc. Add caramel, coffee, marshmallow? But then considering marshmallow may be made with 300,000 permutations of about 50 chemicals, I find my creativity kinda diminished. How do you do it? It seems so hard?
I really would like to learn. I’m just intimidated and discouraged because it seems so infinite and I’m scared I’ll never be able to create what I have in my mind
Oh trust me....it feels infinite. So many variables and possibilities. But that's what makes it fun....the creative process, the endless trials, and working it what can feel like forever with so many tweaks. But at the end of the day, it really is a fun process
The "best" aromas are carefully blended and well thought out formulas, regardless of what material types were used. Although I'm not a fan of 100% pure natural perfumes, some people enjoy them. I think the term "the best" is in the eye of the beholder (or nose smelling it) and very subjective to the individual. But me personally, i use a lot of synthetics, but also tuck in some naturals here and there. i like using the best of both worlds
@@bkscents7050 I saw 3/4 of your videos and wow you learned me all. Now my first doubt is: its better to make at the first to buy an high number of aromas, for have possibility just now to multiple creations, or for first professional buy, it's better to buy only main aromas only with some variantes (like in your video where you say what are the most important ingredients from hedione to gala to musks and alde ecc ecc) or in more its better also to buy also all that small aromas, for have from start infinite creation possibility (or it's useless because I'm not expert, and I could make perfume also with main ingredients)
Hello @BKScents I need please an important info. I'm buying all my ingredients from creatingperfume and I would like to have about all for have full possibility of creations. I would like to know: it's ok if I buy almost all in 2 ml 100% format? Or its too much a little bit and I need more? I was think this because: diluting all at 10% they will become 20 ml, and (maybe) it's enough, or not? I don't want to make error. So it's better if I order less but with more ML format or can be ok 2ML 100%? Many thanks
You can buy samples from perfumers apprentice for almost the same price in a 4ml size. I buy my samples from them just cause I get more bang for my buck.
Many are 3-4 dollars and will go decently far for a beginner. I spent a BUNCH of money getting the 15ml size and I may not use them before the best by date or whatever. The shelf life on most are a year or more but just starting out I’d go for a bunch of the 4ml.
Many of them aren’t very expensive $7 for 15ml those ones I just bought the bigger size just because. It does add up quickly though. I’m $1k in easy. Most likely more but don’t wanna think about it. It is worth the fun IMO
@@Perfumery_by_Sabin many thanks. I was choosing creatingperfume also because in perfumersapprentice 46 dollars and customs for Italy. Anyway I was think that shelf life 3 years. I was choose carefully about 100, and with these ingredients I'm sure that I have about full possibility ti make my ideas real, but for spend not too much I need 2ml raw. If you say that it's better to buy less but with more ml, I will do this
@@Perfumery_by_Sabin I'm scary that if I buy "only" 30-35 ingredients I will be not free to create like I want. I noticed that without specifical Ingredients, tha final result maybe will be too much generic.
You could. I pre-dilute all my materials for use of my "trial/test formulations" for easier dosing in small test batches and to save money on my many, many, many of failed trial attempts, lol. But its important to know that you need to also keep your materials raw/neat as well. So if you come up with a winning formula using your pre-diluted materials...you can then recreate that same formula using the raw materials at full strength and create a master concentrate of your formula. You can then take your master concentrate and make many perfumes with it and dilute it to whatever concentration you like.
Hi tauseef haider im big fan of u really love ur videos but unfortiunatly i can not find ur new video plz upload ur new video if u can showcase rum and congnac it will big help for all ur lovers thanks from phillippine
Off topic BK! Sorry, but just curious if you or anyone has heard of nature in a bottle? Just got an order in and am a little suspicious. Prices were crazy low, but figured I’d take a chance. Also, any labs that I can send samples to that specialize in oils? Thanks!
Ive never ordered from 'nature in a bottle' before. For naturals i tend to stick to my usual suspects of either Liberty Natural or Eden Botanicals. For a good place to get a GCMS on any material or fragrance....phytochemia.com/
Hai Sir, i am ardi from indonesia.. i realy realy need u. Pls help me. I have EO bargamot, basil, sweet orange, lavender, ylangylang, coffe, jasmine, cardamom, cinnamon, sandalwood, cedarwood, lemongrass, and than too i have accord oud absolute, isolate musk phantolid, pure isolate linalool 97, accord leathry woody, sandalore sandal pentanol, accord aldehydic vetiverol earthy grassy, accord amber, accord oriantalicque, isolates ambrafuran methyldodecahydronapthopuran sclareol, and accord peony pretty. What i can i do with that material Sir. I always wrong sir. Can u gift one example formula with my material sir. Pliss help me. I realy need u help me sir
Sorry, but at this time I keep my contact info private. But I do know a few local bespoke Perfumers that would be available for custom made scents, just let me know and I can get you in touch with them
And it takes lot of nerves to watch detailed video but for me it gets even more harder when I rewind agin and again and try to understand accent as well . For me its like 420 hours of video 😂
As someone who is just getting into perfume making, these videos are such a treat when they pop up in the sub box
Thank you for these videos!
i tried making a perfume a few months back thinking it was the same as making e-liquid and boy was i wrong. it was so strong it brought tears to my eyes when i smelt it. thankfully now ive bein researching and have a better understanding of mixing formulas and with such videos as these its helped me massively. ive bein watching this lets say series of videos and bein writing formulas down and tweaking as i go. another great video.
Even for people like me who have been pursuing this hobby for years there always something new to learn from your tutorials. Great job. Keep it up. You rock BK 👍
Made a massively stripped down version of this at the start of my perfumery hobby. Thanks a bunch BK!
Hi, hope all is well and I can't wait for your next video.
And you're a musician ! You really inspire me 🙏🙏🙏
Sound advice BK ! I couldn’t agree more , thats how i like to do things too ! great video ☺️
Please make more content, love your take on all aspects of perfumery. Thank you so much!
I've been watching your videos in between recording and mixing sessions for a cover song I've been working on. I just got to the part of your video where you said "Stop copying other people" as I've been sitting here all day trying to recreate a mix of a song that I love, all while I had a perfect mix of my own already.
This is a mentality to carry all through-out any creative passion. Your advice not only helped me with my music, but it's helping to set the foundation for my journey into perfumery.
As a musician I understand. When I used to mix my songs, I would play a Chris Lord Alge playlist, and try to balance mine like his. But at the end of the day, it wasn't making my music any better....it just was lumping it into something someone has already sonically heard before and wasn't creatively my own. If you want to succeed, you have to do something that hasn't been done before.
@@bkscents7050 Chris Lord Alge is a great reference for mixing. As with music, I cannot expect professional results when I'm limited by my tools and knowledge when it comes to perfumery. It will be a lot of trial and error, experimentation, and hard work.
I'd love to hear your music sometime!
Thanks BK. I am learning alot from you
This is great! Thank you for giving us something to try!
Thank you for your help it very interesting and easy to understand
THANK YOU BK! Great content, very informative and educative, especially for beginners.
Appreciate this man, I'll put his channel in my channel community he is deserved
Thanks for the video keep going your way.
This is such a helpful and well explained video. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your help, making my own fragrance is on my bucket list and this video is perfect. I live in Florida and I wanted a fresh fragrance to create but I needed a base to tweak and make my own. Thank you so much. Much respect to you and to all perfumers!
Thank you for all of your work and content here. So helpful
I’ve been watching your videos since I started perfumery because they’re the most informative on RUclips. I noticed your last video was 7 months ago and am wondering if you’re still doing RUclips.
Just made the formula and tweaked it a little bit I would say it smells fantastic.I replaced the liffarome with violet leaf EO.
Thank you very much ! Your videos are very educational I am learning so much from you ...
Omg ,you look so much like me in terms of tastes, I want to learn perfumery from you.❤😊
Man these videos👍👍👍.. aroma from heaven
Thank you! I am still in the shore of perfumery but such videos give me guidance to go deeper. Thanks @BK
Wow great video
You are very good 👍👍🙏🙏🙏
Content is very useful sir 🙏
Hope everything fine for you, wait for your new upload video. Your Chanel was the best perfumery learning for me.
Love this man, great video!
Hello, thank you for all your videos always touch on interesting and useful topics.
most formulas have many components and it is not possible to have them all at hand, I wonder if you will have some list of substitutes because I have not been able to get information about it.
thank you in advance for your help.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I would very much appreciate a video that specifically addresses ways to increase the longevity of the perfume. I know you've done videos about musks and some fixatives, and they were really helpful, but I wondered if there are other ways or other compounds that can be used to make scents longer-lasting?
I have made some beautiful scents that I'm really happy with, but even though I've added galaxolide, Iso E Super, hedione, etc., I have a lot of trouble getting the scent to last more than an hour or so. I imagine that is a very common beginner's problem...I also imagine it's a common "veteran's" problem, too, because commercial scents seem to have that problem often as well... Thanks!
This is a problem of all yes. I think this: you have know and add also all that single molecules that are ok for your blend and one after one will increase again and again, or I don't know.
longevity has to do with choice materials that.....wait for it....last a long time, lol. But its a balancing act of these long lasting materials, with the "not so long lasting" materials that make up a complete perfume. If you make a formula using nothing but musks, woods, resins, etc...your gonna get a very long lasting scent, but that scent wont project at all because most long lasting scents sit closer to the skin. Its the top/mid material that usually do the projecting. Again, its a balancing act of a lot of materials in the top/mid/base and there is no real way to answer this because this problem is a case-by-case basis depending on what materials where used in the full perfume formula. There is no "one trick solves all" in this issue. The whole formula has to carefully thought out in all stages from beginging....to drydown.
@@bkscents7050 Wow, thank you so much for the clear and informative reply. This is the best and easiest-to-understand explanation I've found so far, and I really appreciate you taking the time. This actually makes sense, and I truly haven't found clearer direction on this!
I can see, now, why even commercial perfumers may not produce a long-lasting fragrance since, as you explained, the problem becomes "case by case," depending on the materials used and the balance between them.
Okay, I am going to continue with this new knowledge, but now if I continue to struggle with this, at least I know I'm in good company. :)
@@bkscents7050 no video for long. Waiting
Thanks a lot for great information it helps a lot for new beginners like us . Kindly tell us how to increase intense amount of sillage in any perfume Plzzzzz Thanks. Love your efforts love your work . I know its shares lot of similarities between projection but sillage is the thing i am looking for years . Often I can’t understand your accent clearly but i do rewind and watch again and again .
This is so good! Keep up the good work dude
Synarome's Algix is magic.
Damn right it is! 😁
I just started watching your videos. Do you have a video explaining the percentage breakdown of these formulas? Not sure if I'm phrasing that right but in this formula you have a list of ingredients and numbers beside them what does that mean?
Hi BK my name is Nikhil, from India.
This video is such a knowledgable video for the upcoming perfumers like me.
If you dont mind can you explain how to get the formula values in the formula column .
i have been searching for these in your all videos but i didn't get it anywhere.
what i mean is how do you take those values out of 1000.
Like Ambroxan 14/1000.
How to get those values.
can u please explain it.
Thanks by the way.
And what do you mean by those formula values.
how can we use in terms of grams or drops.
Great video as always! I’m trying to watch all of your perfumery videos because they are so in depth and helpful. My favorites are your Live mixing ones. I’m 19 and just getting into perfumery . I’m wondering how old were you when started this hobby?
I still consider myself as new and still learning... (But aren't we always), and have been doing this for about 2 years now
@@bkscents7050 I’m excited to learn with you!
Love your videos. Have you done a video on how perfumes become different colors without just dying it? Wondering how natural colored perfume becomes super dark almost opaque sometimes.
I am going to try the original formula and few more with tweaks and variations and share my results with you
Awesome.....let everyone know what changes you made and how it went versus the original
Best video on RUclips hands Dow
Are you still around? I've been trying to find if you actually sell your stuff. And I just really like your videos!
I think Calvin Klein almost always succeed with their summer ones! This/past year reminds me of a good one could be 2001-2 or 2003. L'eau par kenzo is also a fresh one I could buy again! Herrera - Chic, mmm yumm!
Sir first of all thank you very much for your information, kindly upload the formula to make a industrial fragrance like suitable for phenyle, detergent n floor cleaner,
Hi BK, this was so informative, thank you. I am new to perfume and have a few questions. I'm hoping to get in touch with you directly, do you have a website or can you advice a secure way to get in touch? Thank you!! Ellie
Hey, very informative videos, thanks for propagating such good information, I would like to know something that no one has talked about on youtube, can you please tell me how to categorise the details of the ingredients that are mentioned at the back of the perfume box, with respect to this formula, and if we make above formula do we need to take 20% or 30% (as required) formula and add in 80% or 70% ethanol to complete 1000ml of perfume. if I need to make 10 bottles of 100ml, how should proceed? kindly help me through this.
Thank You!
There are plenty of formulas on the Net for diffusers that sound interesting. Can they be adapted to an essential oil perfume? I haven't actually attempted any yet, just thought I'd ask you before I begin. Which reminds me; thank you for your informative videos. They have inspired me to maybe make an attempt. Stay safe.
Yes....and no. Formulas are made specifically for the intended end application, either it be a air diffuser, roll on, lotion, soap, alcoholic perfume spray, etc. If you tried a Air diffuser formula for something like a alcoholic perfume spray....youll find it may smell nice...but probably wont perform as you would like.
Hey, great videos. I'm learning a lot, and I'm a chemical engineer so we kind of *should* have learnt this at university!
Can I ask you a couple of questions?
1. Is there a dabase with similar industry formulas? For example, a database where people propose and share ways to do a perfume that's similar to "Le Mâle" or "Orange Verte" from Hermès, etc.
2. Do you have a tutorial on how to interprete GS-MS results from perfumery perspective?
Thanks!
Unfortunately there is no such database that shares formulas for designer fragrances like Dior, Chanel, Hermès, etc....these are all trade secret and kept unpublished for security reasons that they don’t get cloned by clone makers trying to make duplicates and sell them for cheaper.
This might be a beginner question, but for example, is 10mg of a material diluted to 10%, the same as 1mg of the same material undiluted at 100%? Or does different dilutions give materials different effects when adding to a blend, even if the quantity is adjusted to match the concentration percentage?
Because when replicating formulas, I would sometimes adjust all the material quantities based on 10% dilutions, since I usually have my materials diluted at 10%
Thanks in advance!
What are binding oils or stuff people say make the oils mix (breaks down molecules) and the things that bring out or makes the oil essence stick or wear on skin better, disburse over time/absorb better into skin. Is this from the carrier oils?
Hey BK! I know you haven't uploaded in a while, but do you have any resources anywhere that point to a natural & aromachemical essentials list for beginners? Trying to purchase materials that would be truly essential for a men's perfumery beginner.
Question:
If I expose the absolute to heat, does it damage the formula? Because every time I use the absolute of Labdanum, I have to heat it up a bit, in order for it to melt enough so I can use it.
Thanks in advance. Love your content!
Mg comments is very late, but a simple tips. Put some luke warm water in a bowl, and put the bottle inside while swirling it gently. Don't put boiling water though!
@@joshuamarcellinus7047 My reply is late, too, sorry... However, I took your advice. Cheers!
Hi BK! Thank you so much for such a wonderful video, this is just one men"s fresh formula if i have to play with other fall fragrance formulas then can you plz guide me how to get these demo formulas? So that I can play with different perfumes by tweaking them with my own style.
Thank you
The easiest way is to google things like “Givaudan demo formula” or “IFF demo formula”....your search result will pull up a few PDFs that have these perfume demo formulas from the big house producers of fragrance materials
@@bkscents7050 thank u so much, really appreciated
Ps...could you do this for a female formula? something reasonably well known, if available, so it would be easy to have a benchmark to work with?
😊 thank you
BK WHY WONT U UPLOAAAADDDD upload pls :)
BK, i don't know if I'm seeing things or is that ingredient PPT only goes to 876? Because you total it to 1000 but i added them for a total of 876 part per thousand
Can you make a video on how you can dissolve essential oils with solvent??
hi . I use ready-made essential oil in perfume making.
Do you have any suggestions for me to increase the spread and staying power when I spray the perfume?
The formula I used:
for 50ml :
20ml essential oil
29ml alcohol (96 degrees alcohol)
1ml water
Thanks.
How to know the odour strength and evaporation curves of an accord that we have created?
Please reply im really into perfumery
Thank you. I have created my first fragrance. I have some queries like how to test perfume so that it would not cause any allergies.
The best way is to follow IFRA guidelines. youll have to go to the IFRA website and look up each material you used in your fragrance, and their website will tell you what is the Max allowed for each material that can be used before it becomes a potential allergic reaction.
@@bkscents7050 Thank you for the details!!
What musks do you recommend that can work as base notes and not THAT expensive? I have zenolide but it smells so faint (I use my fragrances in wax based deodorants) ..
Hi BK what are the synthetic alternatives for black and white oud.
Thank you.What is explanation of DPG in this formula?
DPG is a dilutant. Much like as is ethyl alcohol, PG, IPM, etc
@@bkscents7050 Thank you for prompt reply, perhaps I could not asked correctly. Why so much amount when formulation is going to be ultimately in ethanol.
You can omit the dpg in the formula...or replace it with ethanol and add even more ethanol untill it's at the final dilution level of your liking
Hi KB, would it be possible to write down the percentage of dilution for every raw material you’ve used in this formula please?
Regards
Well, in this demo formula....the formula is displayed in the video description for those who use raw materials (and there's a section of DPG to show total dilutants so the formula totals 1000). But in all honesty, anyone can work this formula as intended with any material being prediluted at any level they like. They just have to do the math to figure it out.....or it would be even super easy to simply use the formula spreadsheet calculator that I use, which is also available for sharing/download in one of my older previous videos
Why do you need light sabers for perfumery?
It's to fend off all the nay sayers ;)
What is ambroxon... Is that essential oil?
Could you plz help me methanol or ethanol is good if we are mixing in essential oil..
Hi! Can you please make a video dedicated to finishing a product with perfumers alcohol? Also which alcohol to get. I saw in one of your video's you use SDA 40B 200 proof, but what does it mean? And where do you buy this? I can't find this in the Netherlands so I have no idea what to get...
Besides the perfumer's alcohol, can you explain what Base de Parfum is? (getting sold at perfumersapprentice.com)
Hi. I am from Pakistan. It is very difficult formula because impossible to find 80% of the materials except EO, Iso E Super etc
Hi, Is there any difference between Sandalwood oil and Sandalwood essential oil? What’s the best synthetic equivalent to it?
Regards
Sandalwood oil and sandalwood essential oil are the same. But there are many types of sandalwood essential oil that can come from different places of the world, and they all smell a little bit different. My current favorite synthetic sandalwoods are Dreamwood Base, Javanol and Bacdanol
how to order from IFF and what Aroma Cemical must to have
When you first started, how did ypu determine the amount of oil per ingredient you should buy?
I always just bought 10-15ml samples to start with to familiarize myself with it. Then on the next purchase, I'd buy bigger quantities depending on if I found myself using it a lot....or sparingly/randomly. Some items I now buy 200-500g of....and some I only buy 4ml of if it's super strong and needs to be heavily diluted before use. This is something you will eventually learn once you start using the materials and know what a proper doseage would be of that material.
Thank you so much, you are without a doubt the best person on youtube for fragrance blending information by far!
How to change a note evaporation level from for example middle to top or to base?
What makes a perfume a night or day fragrance or summer time
Hi BK, how did you dilute your Suederal LT? I tried to dilute it in perfumers alcohol but it doesn't mix completely. It turns into a small bubble at the bottom of the solution. I tried the same with DPG but got the same result.
I have mine diluted down to 5% in 200 proof ethyl alcohol. While it still is a touch cloudy in color.....it doesn't clump.
Why do I smell perfume like a gas? Does the commercial perfume contains gas? Just buy a bottle of perfume and the ingredients contain butane, propane, isobutane.. could you please enlight me about this?
Hello! I’m working only in grams and I can’t understand how to transform the formula which is in parts per 1000 to the grams. And how to keep the ratio while adding new materials to the formula. Hope it’s not totally stupid question))
Check out one of my other videos on "perfume formula worksheet calculator". There's a link where you can access this doc and start using it. It does all the calculations and math for you
Anna, not a stupid question- the math is kinda hard. After u get a formula, then u have to dilute to make the version u want to actually spray on your body. More math. I cant answer your question but make sure you have a scale that goes out 3 decimal places (thousanths). Have fun blending.
Where is you man! Hope all is wel.
Hey I just made some perfumes using some essential oils, galaxolide and perfumers alcohol but I can see some white sediments floating in it could you plz help me why is this happening and how to fix this ?!
it will all depend on what oils you used, and what your final perfume concentration was. There are some essential oils that can be cloudy or not very soluble in alcohol until it hits a certain dilution threshold.
@@bkscents7050 oh ok thank you 😊
Could you please do a material spotlight on vanilla… vanilla is so hard to get right and I’d love to know how to do it… in a novel or non conventional way…. I love vanilla but the way it normally smells is overwhelming and sometimes sickening. I recently smelled this soap that was lily and vanilla planifolia extract and it smells fresh and fruity and full, not like I’ve ever smelled vanilla… not remotely sickening… soft and silky….I’d love to know how it could be approximately replicated….
Vanilla can be tricky, cause its pretty potent! For the most part, my go-to vanilla materials will be vanillin powder, ethyl vanillin or isobutavan. But for the most part you have to dose these low at first to truly understand their power. If you are familiar with traditional perfume formulas and ratios, try using just vanillin powder at 5 parts per 1,000 in a full perfume formula to gauge what a lower dose would smell like. It should sweeten up the whole perfume in a discrete way. And then if its not sweet enough....try the same formula again with vanillin at 10 parts per 1,000 to understand the difference of its dosage.
@@bkscents7050 seems so overwhelming…. Like the possibilities of what proportions of ethyl maltol and vanillin and isobutavan…. The permutations seem astronomical. Specifically this is the scent of a soap, it has no corresponding fragrance that I’ve ever smelt. But whenever I smell that soap on my hands I just keep thinking…. I wish this was a perfume, I’d buy a million of them. And then I wonder to myself what if I could recreate this, maybe mess with it a little, try different lily scents….etc. Add caramel, coffee, marshmallow? But then considering marshmallow may be made with 300,000 permutations of about 50 chemicals, I find my creativity kinda diminished. How do you do it? It seems so hard?
I really would like to learn. I’m just intimidated and discouraged because it seems so infinite and I’m scared I’ll never be able to create what I have in my mind
Oh trust me....it feels infinite. So many variables and possibilities. But that's what makes it fun....the creative process, the endless trials, and working it what can feel like forever with so many tweaks. But at the end of the day, it really is a fun process
Hello do you think it's possible to make perfume quality same than commercial famous brand, in simple homemade making?
Of course it is! With the right materials and knowledge/experience...its very possible.
@@bkscents7050 and Im saying truth when I say that 95% of best aromas to buy will be always chemical?
The "best" aromas are carefully blended and well thought out formulas, regardless of what material types were used. Although I'm not a fan of 100% pure natural perfumes, some people enjoy them. I think the term "the best" is in the eye of the beholder (or nose smelling it) and very subjective to the individual. But me personally, i use a lot of synthetics, but also tuck in some naturals here and there. i like using the best of both worlds
@@bkscents7050 thanks i think same you too
@@bkscents7050 I saw 3/4 of your videos and wow you learned me all. Now my first doubt is: its better to make at the first to buy an high number of aromas, for have possibility just now to multiple creations, or for first professional buy, it's better to buy only main aromas only with some variantes (like in your video where you say what are the most important ingredients from hedione to gala to musks and alde ecc ecc) or in more its better also to buy also all that small aromas, for have from start infinite creation possibility (or it's useless because I'm not expert, and I could make perfume also with main ingredients)
Hello @BKScents I need please an important info. I'm buying all my ingredients from creatingperfume and I would like to have about all for have full possibility of creations.
I would like to know: it's ok if I buy almost all in 2 ml 100% format? Or its too much a little bit and I need more?
I was think this because: diluting all at 10% they will become 20 ml, and (maybe) it's enough, or not? I don't want to make error. So it's better if I order less but with more ML format or can be ok 2ML 100%? Many thanks
You can buy samples from perfumers apprentice for almost the same price in a 4ml size. I buy my samples from them just cause I get more bang for my buck.
Many are 3-4 dollars and will go decently far for a beginner. I spent a BUNCH of money getting the 15ml size and I may not use them before the best by date or whatever. The shelf life on most are a year or more but just starting out I’d go for a bunch of the 4ml.
Many of them aren’t very expensive $7 for 15ml those ones I just bought the bigger size just because. It does add up quickly though. I’m $1k in easy. Most likely more but don’t wanna think about it. It is worth the fun IMO
@@Perfumery_by_Sabin many thanks. I was choosing creatingperfume also because in perfumersapprentice 46 dollars and customs for Italy.
Anyway I was think that shelf life 3 years.
I was choose carefully about 100, and with these ingredients I'm sure that I have about full possibility ti make my ideas real, but for spend not too much I need 2ml raw. If you say that it's better to buy less but with more ml, I will do this
@@Perfumery_by_Sabin I'm scary that if I buy "only" 30-35 ingredients I will be not free to create like I want. I noticed that without specifical Ingredients, tha final result maybe will be too much generic.
do i dilute all these materials at 10% first ??
You could. I pre-dilute all my materials for use of my "trial/test formulations" for easier dosing in small test batches and to save money on my many, many, many of failed trial attempts, lol. But its important to know that you need to also keep your materials raw/neat as well. So if you come up with a winning formula using your pre-diluted materials...you can then recreate that same formula using the raw materials at full strength and create a master concentrate of your formula. You can then take your master concentrate and make many perfumes with it and dilute it to whatever concentration you like.
Somonme told me for 25 ml perfume u have to add 8 % essential oil
You should react to the video of this guy mixing scents in India: The man from Kerala who can make any Perfume!
You also didn’t tell the cost as per your reffered formula.
Anyone Suggest best FIXATIVE small budget perfumes
How can I reach you ?
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Off topic BK! Sorry, but just curious if you or anyone has heard of nature in a bottle? Just got an order in and am a little suspicious. Prices were crazy low, but figured I’d take a chance.
Also, any labs that I can send samples to that specialize in oils? Thanks!
Ive never ordered from 'nature in a bottle' before. For naturals i tend to stick to my usual suspects of either Liberty Natural or Eden Botanicals. For a good place to get a GCMS on any material or fragrance....phytochemia.com/
Cool thanks. The lab contacted me back. Going to have them analyzed before I use them.
good afternoon sir
BK Scent man, I don’t know you’re name. Are you self taught?
How to drop 1/1000?
Your name is not mentioned in your videos.Say the name .........
Bk be aware that this formula dosnt get 1000 or im wrong ?
I think he forgot to add DPG to the formula which is used in the original formulation.
There is about 123 of DPG (dilutants) in the original formula as shown in the video description.
Hai Sir, i am ardi from indonesia.. i realy realy need u. Pls help me. I have EO bargamot, basil, sweet orange, lavender, ylangylang, coffe, jasmine, cardamom, cinnamon, sandalwood, cedarwood, lemongrass, and than too i have accord oud absolute, isolate musk phantolid, pure isolate linalool 97, accord leathry woody, sandalore sandal pentanol, accord aldehydic vetiverol earthy grassy, accord amber, accord oriantalicque, isolates ambrafuran methyldodecahydronapthopuran sclareol, and accord peony pretty. What i can i do with that material Sir. I always wrong sir. Can u gift one example formula with my material sir. Pliss help me. I realy need u help me sir
Hello!
Any email adress where i can contact you? Thank you
Hi! I'd love to connect with you...what is a good email address? We are looking to hire you for developing scents!
Sorry, but at this time I keep my contact info private. But I do know a few local bespoke Perfumers that would be available for custom made scents, just let me know and I can get you in touch with them
@@bkscents7050 understood! Yes, I'd love to be in touch! Thank you!
Shot me an email at bkscents.co@gmail.com
@@bkscents7050 will do! Thank you!
And it takes lot of nerves to watch detailed video but for me it gets even more harder when I rewind agin and again and try to understand accent as well . For me its like 420 hours of video 😂