PERFUMERY: the only way to find out what works

I'm always telling people to experiment with their materials to find out what happens. Last week I got a message asking me what I mean by "experimenting", so in this film we potter about a bit with labdabum, Hedione, Cedramber and Ethyl Maltol to see what works best.
To create a perfume, carrying out different tests - experiments - and making versions of a fragrance - known as modifications or mods - is essential. Keep your small test batches, return to them and see how they develop.

[@onalltwos6340]

I like this playful approach to learning materials and their interactions! I'm a beginner and feel that the "right way" of doing things where you must determine an experimental formula, create it, and archive it that vial forever may be a bit unnecessarily clinical. I can absolutely see how that approach would be appropriate when you have a concrete goal in mind and want your end result to be a finished product, but I feel that your approach of iterating within a single vial, but backtracking and using a new vial when you get a bit too lost, is powerful for rapidly prototyping and learning your materials.

[@Grace_Gibbons]

Sarah, the way you describe scents in abstract ways, or even sounds has really helped me! Reviewing my experiments, I've been finding I have a hard time using adjectives to write down my results.

[@GO2CUT]

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[@Deedee_Megadoodoo_]

Your videos are all so relaxing, I'm so glad I found this hobby ❤

[@chrisbedeux2995]

‘Twas a lovely Potter

[@adryancavar7515]

was the material at

[@Cato-gs3xy]

When they were talking about seeing the pig again I thought she was going to say that they'd killed the pig...

[@DanLizotte]

I have a question about these "intense woody ambers" if I could. On fragrantica, there's a note or material or something that some people are hilariously calling "screamwood," described as something like plywood chips soaked in isopropyl. When I read it I was struck because it was a perfect match with what I was experiencing in some perfumes. The funny thing is, it seems to appear (to me at least) long after the dry-down, but I hate it so much I have to scrub it off. I know it's in Moschino's Toy Boy, and it might be in Ormonde Jayne's Arabesque but I haven't had the courage to try it again. I imagine it's not reasonable for me to ask you if you know what the material might be, but could you suggest any ambers that you're pretty sure it

[@fr0grance]

Hello. What an amazing video.

[@adryancavar7515]

How do you clean the screw on bottles and caps for and after the experiments? Do you always clean them with alcohol because I found that to be quite expensive and my dishwasher seemed to have been to powerful and broke some. Aspecially the cap I find hard to clean once you shake it, like you did in the video, they seem to keep the smell more.

[@GohAhweh]

I vote yes on the buzzcut and pink dye.

[@notesdecoeur]

I see the plant :) jade isn't the easiet indoors!

[@mrsniper9873]

Sarah I find your vids very smooth and nicely explained I have tried many things I still can’t make a citrusy pineapple just wondering if have any pointers or any advice.