Adding diluted materials was Mandy's botanical perfumers natural isolates

December 18, 2010

> 1% is probably too weak for pea. also, keep in mind where you have

> something at 1%, you will add 99% of alcohol to your blend with every

> drop, making your blend weaker and more volatile with every drop. i have

> made this mistake in the past, ending up with something that was very

> strong initially, but the basenotes performed just.. sad. i was

> pathetic! it's better to have everything too strong than too weak, you

> can always add alcohol but you can never take it out!

>

> best,

> guido.

>

Hi Guido:

I add my tinctures of rare flowers from my garden to perfumes all

the time without a problem. They're created using the Simplers

method, but I then do other testing for concentration (for

uniformity in extracted molecules) I saying that as I lead into

a different scenario, the one you're addressing, about diluted

aromatics. It is possible to just add the 1% - just leave out

the alcohol. It's then 1% of the juice, not a 1% dilution. I

blend my mods with dilutions all the time, that is the only

method I use. I then convert that dilution to grams of raw

materials. I created a blending program that I hope to have

online next year that will allow folks to blend with diluted or

undiluted essences, convert them back and forth, and blend in an

amount.

Anya McCoy

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