The Flamingsword Method of Scent Building
Mar. 11th, 2023 02:44 pmHow I build a scent:
• I get an idea of the relative strengths of the components by putting one drop of each base ingredient into a 2ml glass jar and smelling them together over the course of a couple of days while they blend.
• add or subtract any scents that fill in and round out the scent if needed.
• adjust the relative strengths of the ingredients by slowly adding more drops of the same things and writing down changes over the course of a day or two.
• I dip the end of a test strip of paper or paper towel into the blend and smell it every couple of minutes to see if there are any gaps where the scent does not come out as strongly so that I can make sure the notes cover the whole application and dry down process.
• I add alcohol or a carrier oil to the ingredients to get a blend that can be applied to skin, and then apply it, smelling every couple/few minutes for the first two hours to three hours and then every ten minutes after the dry down is mostly into the longer-lasting base notes.
• continue fiddling with the recipe of the blend until there’s better coverage and less strength variance over time.
• I make the final blend of ingredients, let sit in the final container for three days, add the carrier substance, and then either keep it or wrap it in bubble wrap and cardboard for mailing.
• (Some people use plumbers tape around the tops of bottles to decrease the amount of scent particles that escape, which I cannot be arsed to do, bc I can never find the plumbers tape.)
I will today and tomorrow be messing with a scent for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
silk_dragon_zen that sounds like it will smell like forestry petrichor, and then messing with a knock off of Bachelor’s Grove for my friends Bat and sabotabby. I do need to grab some roller bottles and such for finished scents to go in sometime soon.
• I get an idea of the relative strengths of the components by putting one drop of each base ingredient into a 2ml glass jar and smelling them together over the course of a couple of days while they blend.
• add or subtract any scents that fill in and round out the scent if needed.
• adjust the relative strengths of the ingredients by slowly adding more drops of the same things and writing down changes over the course of a day or two.
• I dip the end of a test strip of paper or paper towel into the blend and smell it every couple of minutes to see if there are any gaps where the scent does not come out as strongly so that I can make sure the notes cover the whole application and dry down process.
• I add alcohol or a carrier oil to the ingredients to get a blend that can be applied to skin, and then apply it, smelling every couple/few minutes for the first two hours to three hours and then every ten minutes after the dry down is mostly into the longer-lasting base notes.
• continue fiddling with the recipe of the blend until there’s better coverage and less strength variance over time.
• I make the final blend of ingredients, let sit in the final container for three days, add the carrier substance, and then either keep it or wrap it in bubble wrap and cardboard for mailing.
• (Some people use plumbers tape around the tops of bottles to decrease the amount of scent particles that escape, which I cannot be arsed to do, bc I can never find the plumbers tape.)
I will today and tomorrow be messing with a scent for
silk_dragon_zen that sounds like it will smell like forestry petrichor, and then messing with a knock off of Bachelor’s Grove for my friends Bat and sabotabby. I do need to grab some roller bottles and such for finished scents to go in sometime soon.