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Making Your Own Fragrance

Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba concocted their own exotic fragrances, and so can you. Personalized perfumes, toilet waters, body oils and room atomizers are easy to make. Light, wearable signature scents can affect more than personal moods and memories. They can be healing as well, reducing stress, energizing one's spirit or evoking a romantic and sensual mood. And they are fun to make. You can almost always find what you need at a health food store. First, decide how strong you want your fragrance. Perfumes are the strongest, containing 15 to 30 percent essential oils diluted in a base of alcohol, with a small percentage of distilled water. Less potent toilet waters contain 5 to 10 percent essential oils, and colognes and body splashes may have 1 to 2 percent.

Materials:
- Your favorite pure essential oils (such as rose, lavender and sandalwood)
- Alcohol
- Fixatives (such as sandalwood, benzoin, myrrh or vanilla)
- Eyedroppers
- Small vials, bottles, jars

Any of the following alcohols may be utilized. The best are the highest proof, which contain the greatest concentrations of ethyl alcohol. - 95% grain alcohol (190 proof)
- Vodka (use highest-proof available)
- Ethyl alcohol (70%), or "rubbing alcohol" -- available at pharmacies. This is less expensive than grain alcohol but contributes a slight alcohol scent.
Since grain alcohol is unavailable in many states, vodka is perfectly suitable.

Fixatives prolong a fragrance. They are ingredients added to a composition to lend their own unique scent and to "fix" the other ingredients as well, retarding their overall rate of evaporation. Commonly used fixatives are: Sandalwood Benzoin Myrrh Vanilla Balsam of Peru

Other fixatives, particularly useful for oil and bath blends, creams and lotions: - Tincture of benzoin
- Grapeseed oil
- Castor oil
- Liquid from Vitamin E gel caps.

Rules of thumb for wonderful fragrances:
- Use glass containers (rather than plastic) for preparing and storing perfumes.

- Record, date and name each blend.

- Aging your formula is necessary to smooth out and mellow the raw-ingredient smell, so allow your blend to age for a few days or weeks in a cool, dry, dark area.

- While constructing a formula, after adding each new essential oil, be sure to smell and check your recipe to get an idea of how each one changes it and how you might like to modify it in the future.

- Clean the eyedropper in alcohol or vodka between each addition of a new essential oil.

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