Your fragrant mistakes....

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perfumermichelle wrote:

> I've been contemplating what to do with an alcohol dilution of nutmeg absolute

for which I made a slight error in percentage. (a drop of absolute landed on the

scale, so it would not be accurate for use in my blends.)

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> I thought this might be a fun question for the group: what is your favorite

thing to do with aromatics that you cannot use in your blends but don't want to

just throw away?

Hi :

I make millefleurs. Into it go rejected perfume mods, bits of left over

dilutions of things like nutmeg absolutes ;-) , all kinds of odds and ends.

Surprisingly, the millefleurs always smell wonderful when used as a room spritz

or on blotters tucked into linen closets! They *always* smell very feminine,

btw. At least mine do.

Even the big companies do it ;-)

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All my best,

Anya

http://AnyasGarden.com

http://NaturalPerfumers.com

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I use all  rejected or wrong blends as bathroom sprays I don't know how but it

always scents the bathroom beautiful and one of cousins always asks for one of

the same and my answer is always the same I would if I knew what I put in there

LOL !!Maggie( Corfu, Greece) 

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> I make millefleurs.

I LOVE this idea. Just started a batch. How do you know how much

alcohol to add at the end, or do you not add any?

Adam Gottschalk

http://lordsjester.com

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Adam Gottschalk wrote:

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>> I make millefleurs.

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> I LOVE this idea. Just started a batch. How do you know how much

> alcohol to add at the end, or do you not add any?

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> Adam Gottschalk

> http://lordsjester.com

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Usually the only 'extra' alcohol that goes into the batch is what I use

to rinse out bottles with sludgy residue like concrete dilutions. You

don't have to overthink it, it's just a fun way to use up leftover

stuff. I found a bunch of forgotten dilutions of rare concretes and

absolutes recently. There was about 10mls of alcohol to 1 gram of

aromatic in each tiny jar. I just dumped them all into the millefleurs

bottle and swished the insides of the tiny jars with alcohol and dumped

that into the milefleurs bottle, too. Smells heavenly.

All my best,

Anya

http://AnyasGarden.com

http://NaturalPerfumers.com

Anya's Garden on FB http://bit.ly/iamja

Guild on FB http://bit.ly/1jP5lB

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I LOVE this idea. Just started a batch. How do you know how much

alcohol to add at the end, or do you not add any?

Adam Gottschalk

http://lordsjester. com

Most of my mistakes already contain alcohol , so I don't really measure.Maggie(

Corfu, Greece)

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> Usually the only 'extra' alcohol that goes into the batch is what I use

> to rinse out bottles with sludgy residue like concrete dilutions. You

> don't have to overthink it, it's just a fun way to use up leftover

> stuff. I found a bunch of forgotten dilutions of rare concretes and

> absolutes recently. There was about 10mls of alcohol to 1 gram of

> aromatic in each tiny jar. I just dumped them all into the millefleurs

> bottle and swished the insides of the tiny jars with alcohol and dumped

> that into the milefleurs bottle, too. Smells heavenly.

>

> All my best,

> Anya

Hmmm funny, that is what I used to do with my leftover alcohol that I used to

clean droppers. I used to use the same alcohol for cleaning for a period of

time. Somehow in the end, with all of the different oils saturating the alcohol,

it always seemed to smell wonderful, no matter what happened to eventually be in

it. I think that is probably why I used the alochol over and over again in the

first place!

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> I use all  rejected or wrong blends as bathroom sprays I don't know how but

it always scents the bathroom beautiful and one of cousins always asks for one

of the same and my answer is always the same I would if I knew what I put in

there LOL !!Maggie( Corfu, Greece) 

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What a great set of answers from everyone... the 'stinkers' get to redeem

themselves!

And no waste!

Perfect

Margi Macdonald

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Hi!

 

That is a nice question!

 

I use all my fragrant mistakes for room spray or just drop some on dried rose

petals. Some I infuse in alcohol and use as a diffusor!

 

Nothing is wasted.

 

Angi

(perfumenatural)