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The first digital book on starting a bath, body and perfume business. It is also the first book that many have purchased to get them started in the world of fragrance. Dozens of sources for perfume making oils and essences and ideas for selling your creations. Although this book focuses mostly on selling perfume oils and custom blended bath and body products, I have had great feedback from novice perfumers that this guide was just what they needed to get solid, honest information on the best suppliers in the industry.
http://www.aromasuccess.com
Book: Essence and Alchemy by Mandy Aftel
An engaging book on the history of perfume and beginning techniques of blending natural essences.
Mandy Aftel has a wonderful way with words, a way that sends your mind off on flights of fancy. The way she writes it is though blending perfumes is easy. It is only once you start to work with the rambunctuous natural essences that you truly begin to appreciate the ability of natural perfumers to create magic with what I call "linear" oils. There is nothing spectacular about natural essences and essential oils on their own. Some even smell ghastly out of bottle. But there is nothing more practical than natural essences to train you in the art and science of perfume creation. And their easy availability, compared to the hard to come by synthetic aroma chemicals, some only available to the prestigious perfume houses, makes it easy for the novice to get their "noses" wet in the act of blending and developing techniques. If you can make something beautiful out of these oils, you are well on your way to creating great perfumes.
Available at Amazon.com
Aromatics and More
A very informative site out of New Zealand. There is a formulary with several pages of information on making perfumes from natural essential oils.
http://www.aromaticsandmore.com/pages/makingperfumes.html
Article: Perfumery Industry in France
"Perfumes: A Mainstay of the French Economy"
http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/francophone/Icons/parfum/perfumes.pdf
The first digital book on starting a bath, body and perfume business. It is also the first book that many have purchased to get them started in the world of fragrance. Dozens of sources for perfume making oils and essences and ideas for selling your creations. Although this book focuses mostly on selling perfume oils and custom blended bath and body products, I have had great feedback from novice perfumers that this guide was just what they needed to get solid, honest information on the best suppliers in the industry.
http://www.aromasuccess.com
Book: Essence and Alchemy by Mandy Aftel
An engaging book on the history of perfume and beginning techniques of blending natural essences.
Mandy Aftel has a wonderful way with words, a way that sends your mind off on flights of fancy. The way she writes it is though blending perfumes is easy. It is only once you start to work with the rambunctuous natural essences that you truly begin to appreciate the ability of natural perfumers to create magic with what I call "linear" oils. There is nothing spectacular about natural essences and essential oils on their own. Some even smell ghastly out of bottle. But there is nothing more practical than natural essences to train you in the art and science of perfume creation. And their easy availability, compared to the hard to come by synthetic aroma chemicals, some only available to the prestigious perfume houses, makes it easy for the novice to get their "noses" wet in the act of blending and developing techniques. If you can make something beautiful out of these oils, you are well on your way to creating great perfumes.
Available at Amazon.com
Aromatics and More
A very informative site out of New Zealand. There is a formulary with several pages of information on making perfumes from natural essential oils.
http://www.aromaticsandmore.com/pages/makingperfumes.html
Article: Perfumery Industry in France
"Perfumes: A Mainstay of the French Economy"
http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/francophone/Icons/parfum/perfumes.pdf
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