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Tips for beginner perfumers. (Continues) A review from Sunday21.

In interaction with the synthesized ingredients, a solvent called dipropen glycol is used, which is a viscous liquid similar to glycerol. As the solution becomes dense with it, it becomes easy to measure in drops and easier to weigh. It also prevents the fragrance from evaporating quickly. You can also use propylene glycol, isopropyl amyristate, diethylphthalate, they have the property of dissolving all the necessary materials in modern perfumes. When you try to make a perfume with an alcohol base, you can use ethyl alcohol as a solvent. For aromatization of soap, shampoo, aromatic candles it should be excluded from the component. Of course, make the most of all your steps, observe and record concentrations, exact dates of preparation and various percentages of substances. Only when recording will you be able to concentrate as much as possible, and avoid all kinds of confusion.

Easy exercises for practicing your sense of smell.

For the first method you will need three cans, where two will have the same concentration and the third one will have a different concentration. Then try to distinguish for yourself where the other concentration is. Over time, reduce the difference in concentration. The next method is also quite simple. Make a few solutions, where the concentration will go on increasing, sign the cans themselves from below, so that you do not know where the percentage is. Then dip the blotters in all the cans and try to place them on an ascending basis. Decrease the difference in concentration each time you practice differently. The easiest way to do this is to apply different flavours to the blotters and number them. Mix them up and try to find out by smell which perfume or maybe even a single ingredient is on the blotter, we suggest you do it as often as possible. Determine which scents you have difficulty recognizing and always work on your mistakes, study them thoroughly, it will play into your hands in future aromatic masterpieces.