Making Scents
Mar. 31st, 2011 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naomi_jayI'm really obsessed with perfume. It seems logical to me I should make my own. Reading Jessica Verday's The Hollow has sealed this decision for me. Rummaging around online, it seems like it's not actually that expensive to do. I just to find the initial equipment to get started, and most of the websites I've found so far are either defunct or based in the US. I'm convinced there must be somewhere local I can get what I need - Boots should stock essential oils, I know a couple of shops that do/did stock fragrance oils. Then it's just getting the odds and ends for mixing, storing, etc. There must be a UK website somewhere, right?
I have this crazy dream of making enough money from my writing that I can quit, move to the sea, and spent my weeks writing and my weekends making perfume, and I have an open fireplace and a cat. Maybe a donkey too. I think the closest I'll get is probably just ... well, what I'm doing now, which is not living by the sea, writing in the evenings, and owning various snakes. But if I add perfume-making into the mix, I'm one step closer to my dream.
I have this crazy dream of making enough money from my writing that I can quit, move to the sea, and spent my weeks writing and my weekends making perfume, and I have an open fireplace and a cat. Maybe a donkey too. I think the closest I'll get is probably just ... well, what I'm doing now, which is not living by the sea, writing in the evenings, and owning various snakes. But if I add perfume-making into the mix, I'm one step closer to my dream.
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on 2011-03-31 01:53 pm (UTC)Also, I love making my own lotions and potions. I think it has something to do with my innate love of witchcraft, lol ^_^
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on 2011-03-31 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-31 02:03 pm (UTC)Couple of recommendations
on 2011-03-31 02:29 pm (UTC)I've bought fragrences and supplies for soap and candles from here: http://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/ Also good and prompt delivery.
(I now can't make homemade popcorn 'cos the spare saucepan's got a slightly strange smell about it. Looby Loo did soaps a couple of Xmases back--using my BPAL for the scents. I did candles.)
I'd recommend wearing latex/rubber gloves whilst handling essnetial oils: when they're neat, they stick around on the skin for ages and can cause unexpected reactions.
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on 2011-03-31 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-31 02:31 pm (UTC)Re: Couple of recommendations
on 2011-03-31 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-31 03:37 pm (UTC)Have you heard of this site? I don't know if they ship to the UK, but they have EVERY BASE SCENT YOU COULD IMAGINE AND SEVERAL BAJILLION NO ONE COULD. XD
(I just checked on their site--they ship internationally!) <3
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on 2011-03-31 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-31 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-31 04:17 pm (UTC)Also, it should be so much fun getting to name things. You could have a Midnight Scream in honour of Afterlife. :D
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on 2011-03-31 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-04-01 02:55 am (UTC)