Fragrance Workshop

I adore my course at University and on Thursday my love grew even more, as we were given the opportunity to hear guest lecturer Karen Gilbert (who has worked in the fragrance industry over 25 years!) talk about the fragrance industry and most excitingly we were allowed to create our own perfume!

Within the lecture we learnt all about the science behind smell and why in many cases scents can link heavily to memory; as well as this we were taught about defining notes and how base, middle and top notes are combined to create the fragrances that we all know today.

Over the course of 2 hours, in groups we were given a sheet to work through that enabled us to pick out specific scents to create our fragrance. Before we even got to smell any perfumes our first task was to come up with a story/customer demographic to base our fragrance on; our group chose to focus on mens cologne and lightheartedly based it upon the 'George Clooney' ideal. 

From this we then chose our heart and accessory notes and after these were combined added in our chosen fixatives and harmonisers. Initially we could only combine these using smelling strips to ensure that we found the perfect combination.

                                  

Then came the really tricky part, this involved deciding on the right amount of each note to add into our perfume, and after some careful combining we were very satisfied with our end result! 

The day was a really fun way to learn more about our project topic and allowed us to think creatively as if we were in the fragrance industry ourselves.

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Until next time my lovelies,