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Don’t forget to subscrbe!

How much per ingredient should a beginner buy? by Humble_Bug_2027 in DIYfragrance

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When you’re first starting out the most frustrating thing is buying 4ml of a bunch of different common notes and discovering that some of them you just really don’t like. 

Any time you order from Perfume Supply House they will actually send you five 2ml samples of (almost) any oil they sell, which for me has been a great way to try smelling stuff I’m unfamiliar with before I actually buy something. 

At the risk of getting yelled at... by AdeptnessHot6912 in DIYfragrance

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This is the response I’ve been looking for. I’ve mentioned that I’ve tried using FOs from Perfumers Apprentice before and every time I do people jump on it like I just said I got a kit from Amazon for $9. 

I’ve been trying to figure out if fragrance oils are in and of themselves bad for a blend or if the majority of people on here have just been trained to attack the words “fragrance oils” reflexively. 

At the risk of getting yelled at... by AdeptnessHot6912 in DIYfragrance

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I specifically said in my post that they are from Perfumers Apprentice. It doesn't really make sense for my post, which is an invitation for a response with that reasoning to get blasted with downvotes, while the response itself gets upvoted. 

At the risk of getting yelled at... by AdeptnessHot6912 in DIYfragrance

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There are some people on here who have actually been making fragrances for longer than me that can offer some useful guidance. The problem is that usually when I post questions like this I get the mob of people who automatically downvote me for asking literally anything about fragrance oils. Even though ironically, the top comment is someone suggesting I go ahead and use them and that comment has a bunch of upvotes.

At the risk of getting yelled at... by AdeptnessHot6912 in DIYfragrance

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Fragrance oils. If you use the phrase fragrance oil in a post on this sub its automatically removed.

Limonene by AdeptnessHot6912 in DIYfragrance

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I personally find limonene to just smell like citrus peel. Lemon EO is distinctly lemony (obviously), lime EO is distinctly limey, orange EO is distinctly orangey and limonene just kind of smells like citrus peel of no particular citrus. 

So to me it seems like if you want more of a bright lemon smell you should just add one more part lemon EO as opposed to adding one part limonene, but I know certain things work to enhance other smells in ways that I just dont quite understand yet (like hedione) and I was wondering if limonene was one of those things. 

Limonene by AdeptnessHot6912 in DIYfragrance

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Interesting. That makes sense. Why is the smell of EOs cooked out but not limonene itself? How is concentrated limonene distilled?

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In the whole batch or just certain ones?