I paid for a 5 hours online course and you pretty much explained it in 25 minutes. You have the gift of perfumery but also teaching. Thank you so much 🙌🏼

You’re such a great communicator, you have a real gift.

literally the best video out there right now on this subject

I love love love, how you included low budget one too. Very thoughtful!!!

I really love the way you come clear and I’m getting a lot of understanding from your videos

I love videos that do exactly what they say they do on the bottle!!! Excellent video yet again.

Thank you! And you’re right, perfumer’s apprentice is a great resource for us here in the states. I just placed an order with them.

What a generous gift you are giving your viewers. Thank you for taking the time to share your expertise.

Brilliant! Very inspiring. Lots of very helpful tips. Thank you & well done, Sam!

Thanks for making this! I am a beginner at perfume making. I am focusing primarily on building masculine Chypre fragrances. This has given me a lot of insight and confirmed some things I discovered on my own, like binary mixes and building on that.

Absolutely the best beginers / getting started guide that i have found. Thanks for creating and sharing.

Thanks so much for making this video. This is just what I needed to take my next step in creating perfumes.

Very interesting! Learning how smells interact with one another will be enlightening. Also I appreciate the attention to detail so people can "hopefully" avoid wasting ingredients.

I love to watch your videos specially when you explain each one of your topic so clean like Jivco Rose 🌹 a real treat for the bigginers like me, god bless

I've started to follow you from Italy...it's the first time I see so much material❤ All these things are what I was searching for! Keep on perfume the world💪

Hey Sam, appreciate the wealth of knowledge! I'd like to propose initiating some enjoyable online experiments to delve into more intricate accords or blends! cheers from Palestine

Thank you so much for your information on teaching us newbies how to create 💝

This is extremely helpful, man! Thank you so much for making this!

I subbed within 2 mins of your video. You are great at this.

I’ve been Perfume binge watching for a whole week now on KZfaq & other, and this Video is EXACTLY what I was looking for & needed,… So informative & well layed out 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 *I’ll definitely be watching your Channel more…

I'm so so so glad I found your video. I've been looking for exactly this but couldn't find what I wanted lol ❤

Love this man my instincts told me to buy essential oils wpuld be a bad idea your vodeos confirmed it givea me a really solid start ive always been obsessed with smells so i really want to learn this thanks for the knowledge

You do a great job of explaining the rationale for why you recommend doing things a particular way. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. And I've ordered your Amber Shadow from Scent Trunk.

Awesome video and great work!!!! I'm interested in starting perfumery and I just had to subscribe. I can listen to you all day!

Thank youuu veeeery much maann. I can't appreciate you enough. It was very simple and useful. Veeery good luck. I wish you the best.

Your videos are so good man! Thank you

One again thanks so much for breaking this daunting subject down for beginners 👍

Stunning video, preparation and information. Thank you so much. All the best!:)

Fascinating, thank you!

Dear! love your videos, very helpfull

Very important your considerations about low and high budget options. I receive a lot of doubts about this from my students. Thanks a lot!

Damn this is so helpful. I bought a bunch of EOs, perf alcohol and some of the materials. Wound up smelling like a mixture of essential oils lol. Thank you for this!!!

thank you young man i learned a lot from you

Thank you buddy ... i truly appreciate and respect people like urself ... who know what they talking about ... straight to the point ... its real ... its an awesome tutorial .. Ive just started a head to toe brand and working on 3 abstract fragrances 😉 I am a music and video producer with something absolutely fantastic on the way ... The Band and the brand .. Stay chill 🙏

Your video is a godsend for me who's just getting back to playing around with perfumery. Very clear, detailed, and easy to follow. Now if I can only find a local source for the synthetics here...

Sam is my go to whet it comes learning.

Thanks. Extremely informative.

This was so informative! Well layed out and clearly communicated. I'd love to see a video about what books you'd recommend reading as a beginner and to an intermediate, explaining their content and why it's important.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📹 This video serves as a comprehensive beginner's guide to DIY perfumery, covering equipment, ingredients, dilution, and blending. 00:29 🧳 Four main sections: equipment, 20 key ingredients, dilution, and blending techniques. 02:07 ⚖️ Equipment options: high budget (precision scale) and low budget (inexpensive scale). 03:33 🧾 Essential consumables: scent strips, pipettes, sample bottles, and perfumer's alcohol. 05:08 💰 Budget summary: Minimal spend around £82.56, high budget around £255.85. 07:43 🧪 Recommended 20 ingredients for beginners, including naturals and synthetics, with a variety of notes. 15:04 📚 Learn the ingredients: Start by making dilutions to understand how each ingredient behaves at different concentrations. 18:22 📝 Blending stages: Three phases - binary mixtures, chords, and final perfumes. 20:01 🔀 Binary mixtures help assess compatibility between two ingredients; adjust proportions for balance. 20:42 🎼 Making chords involves creating complex mixtures, either realistic or abstract, for various scents. 21:52 🌸 Perfume creation focuses on how scents evolve over time, incorporating top, mid, and base notes; test on skin and scent strips. Made with HARPA AI

Fantastic video! Thank you!

Keep posting brother! You are making me want to become a perfumer!

Thanks so much for this video. So impactful will for sure look at for more 🙏

Me ha encantado tu vídeo, me parece súper útil y perfecto para los principiantes, muchas gracias por tus conocimientos. LIKE! 👍🏼 🇪🇸

excellent information. thank you.

Epic video! Well done! :)

You are a great great great person bro I want to learn sooo bad .. i love selling colongs i would love to learn every thing the right way😊

Good information thanks!

Thankyou so much! Great vid 😄

Great video.. aroma from heaven

Excellent video. Now I have shopping to do.

Thank you so much young man. Super nice , information.

Great content and presentation! 👏

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Great video. Thank you very much!

You're a hero with these videos, man! Here comes my question. How long after having made 10% dilution should I wait before smelling it on a paper strip or integrate with another molecules/accords? Does one such time interval apply to all of the dilutions? Will you make a video on different solvents? I wonder when to dilute in DPG, ethanol, or whether to get TEC or IPM, although I've been told ethanol usually will be the best option upon going solely for dilutions and the ones like DPG or TEC for the ultimate blend with ready concentrate.

Every thing that you share helps :)

Thank you very great teacher 🙏🏾👏🏽

Very helpful

The really fancy scales they use for pour over coffee are very accurate. It's so sensitive it can detect air blowing on it.

thank you so much!

this helped a lot!!!!

Great video! Don't give up.... You're the future

Great information

This is so informative. I always love parfumery, but lately I'm starting to think to made one myself. Especially since i live In Indonesia, i think i have more selection of essential oil to choose for.

Regarding the amber accord, I want to learn Ambreine Natural (an alternative to Labdanum Absolute) and blend it with rice Vanillin. Ambreine Natural is very strong in 10% dilution so I believe, that 1% dilution will be really helpful to create a more smooth balanced Amber. I also thought about a blend of these two ingredients together with Iso E Super and Amborxan to create a more neutral commercial and modern amber accord. What are you thoughts, Sam?

Thanks so much for this info! Would it be possible to provide the CAS numbers for each ingredient? Mainly because these ingredients are named slightly differently at each store and it gets a little confusing. Thank you!

Great and great!

You can evaluate a scent just using a drop or 2 (0.02g). Your goal is just to have enough for a scent strip so no reason to waste oil or alcohol, both of which may be both costly. And honestly, given that alcohol must be shipped ground, you could (like me) wait up to 10 days for delivery.

Great Video Sam, wish I'd seen this before I'd splurged on a load of ingredients I don't really use or know what to do with. Thankfully I've now got most of those materials you reccomended.

If I could spend the day with you, learning perfume. That view from the window is so beautiful!!! I live in NYC, US we don't have open views like that.. just buildings. blahh

Very precious video for beginners thanks! I have had a question while watching the “How to blend” part: So when making binary mixtures, do we need to choose the materials in between the top-mid-base parts? For example if i want to make a binary mixture should i choose the two ingredients as two top note ingredients or can i also choose between top-mid , mid-base? Afterwards when structuring the binary mixtures together, do they need to be mixed in a pyramidal order from base to top?

Hey mate. Great video you made! Do you have any suggestion for european suppliers ? Thanks!

Awesome

Great video

Exaltolide - my fav musk :)))

Hey! Great video, i just discovered your channel, and im really happy that i did. It’s a shame, you don’t have more subscribers with such high quality videos. When you were listing the ingredients they strangely sounded familiar. I made a post on basenotes yesterday where to start and it turns out, you’ve been answering my question. Thanks for the help! I have a question though: When materials are pre-diluted in solvents like DPG or TEC, should i buy those solvents or just further dilute them with perfumers alcohol? Also: how should i dissolve solid ingredients like ethyl maltol? Thanks in advance!

thank you

Hi Sam, I recently just delved into perfumery and just bought my basic tools. So glad to have found you on here, instantly subscribed! Quick question, around the 15:33 mark on your video above when you said take a pipette and get an ingredient and measure it out to 0.5 --- Do I stop at 0.005 or 0.500? I just wanted to make sure I'm doing it right when I'm using my scale. Thank you in advance!

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Hi Sam! I'm still in my learning stage of perfumery and I heard you say that lavender softens things which is really surprising to me because whenever I put lavender (synthetic) in my formulation, it makes it aromatic. Please explain because I'm really confused. Also, what aroma chemical can I use to make men perfumes more aromatic? Thanks in advance!

if you use glass pipettes can you reuse them for the same oil?

Planning to start perfumery and go on to selling them..any tips and advice

thank you so much for all this basics explained so smoothly. Do you have any recommendation of suppliers if i dont live in UK or US ? Keep doing this great job Best from France :)

love your channel! im currently a soap maker, and want to make better perfumes!

Thank you

Great beginner guide, however famous fragrances undergo months of testing before reaching the stores. How do I know that the fragrance I made is safe to use on my skin??

Are those citrus scents also produced in labs? I have wondered for many years whether chemically manufactured molecular structures are healthy or safe. I'm addicted to many lab created perfumes so it would be difficult for me to quit using those. But I only used plant based perfume oils for many years after I gave my designer perfumes to a friend. But then I discovered the imitation oils and was too curious to find out how they smell. I'm wearing the version of Gold Couture by Juicy Couture right now it's my favorite of all. So addictive. I'm sure it contains ambroxan.

most of the synthethic ones are not available in my country. any alternatives I could use?

So do I create a top notes accord, a mid and a base notes accord and then I mix them together to create a perfume? Thats the crude idea? Or the accord is itself a mixture of different types of notes? For example, an accord comprised of lemon (top), lavender(mid), and labdanum(base)

Thanks for great video - the ingredients links are not working, can you please revise them.

Great

Finally a KZfaqr who does not address me as if I were in a room full of people all huddled around my computer. So refreshing to not hear, "Hi, everybody", when I am watching all by myself. KZfaqrs should learn from their advertisers who NEVER communicate with you as a member of a faceless group. Clearly, Sam has learned and followed the teachings in Lesson #1 from the Arthur Godfrey school of broadcasting in the 1950s. Know who your audience is.

Great video Sam. May I enquire if dilutions are primarily used for evaluation. So the diluted raw material is not actually used in your final formula?

Thank you soo much for the great video,when i buy ingredients do i just buy the normal essential oils and where do you buy the synthetics and prmade base,its difficult to find them in Africa

Can frangrance oil and essential oil be mixed together?

How much should i buy for synthetics 10ml for each will be enough?

don't forget to let it "develop" in a dark and cool storage area before using.

Thanks for the section. Please can you put it in action so I can see the way you are mixing them because I am a beginner

Hi Sam! Is there a rule of thumb for diluting ingredients? For example if I have Lemon EO should I always dilute it to 10 or 1% as you explained before adding it to the final perfume? Same with synthetics, if I have Hedione, should I also dilute it before adding it to the final perfume? When do you know which ingredients need to be diluted and which ones don’t? And to what percentage? Can you for example dilute it to 50% instead of 10 or 1% as your example? Thank you! Great vid!

please could provide us with other suppliers that ship worldwide ?