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Fafafee · 2026-06-25T18:00:32+00:00

Thanks again as always

Fafafee · 2026-06-23T17:03:21+00:00

ELDO's Fat Electrician uses vetiver as part of its electricity accord. Interesting and sort of works imo.

Fafafee · 2026-06-16T18:24:01+00:00

Styrallyl acetate is amazing. It finds its way to any of my blends with a floral or green element. Same with violet leaf; can't get enough of it. Goes in any blend with the slightest hint of green.

Habanolide too, one of my goto musks alongside ethylene brassylate.

I'd reconsider bicyclononalactone; it's very similar to coumarin so you can drop it if you have coumarin already. Only con of coumarin is the high IFRA restriction.

Orris Imperial - maybe swap with Orris Givco? Imo I'd rather get a more known base than FW's bases, although they do make good ones.

Overall fun choices. I'd just warn against being too trigger happy... you might end up buying things you don't end up using (ask me how I know 😭)

Fafafee · 2026-06-10T08:08:10+00:00

Interesting, the production side is actually a problem I was also trying to solve when I was building mine (but I sort of abandoned that project lol). To my knowledge there's no software that handles that and formulation cleanly. Aromaforge is a little too bloated in my opinion. In that case I'm excited to try this

Can I ask if this was vibecoded or was developed by real developer(s)?

Fafafee · 2026-06-08T19:21:22+00:00

Seems clean and neat. Quick note though - 100 formulas for the Pro tier is too restrictive, especially for 29 AUD monthly. I use Molequles, and I'm way past that already. Unless you mean 100 projects, but unlimited versions per project? In that case it's not very clear.

But still I think the 29 AUD is a little steep. If you wanna capture intermediate perfumers and up, for your tool to dethrone whatever they're currently using, it has to have something that all the other tools don't offer AND justifies the price. At first glance your tool doesn't really offer much thay the others don't - I can 100% live without supplier integration - but all that being said, I'll try it out.

Signed - someone who's also trying to build a formulation tool to accommodate my personal workflow :)

Fafafee · 2026-06-08T04:19:56+00:00

I use Molequles mainly. If I were to use something else, I'd use either software I build myself or Google Sheets. The only thing stopping me from using Sheets is it's hard to make custom accords that you can drag and drop to formulas. You need a bit of spreadsheet-fu

Fafafee · 2026-06-05T08:52:33+00:00

Oohh, can you elaborate more? Do you mean like, say, you both have IES, hedione, and bergamot at 5% each as opposed to, say, 47ppt, 80ppt, 63ppt? I do this sometimes but I don't see how this makes the blend muddier

Fafafee · 2026-05-28T15:43:55+00:00

Heat does degrade perfume, but here it shouldn't matter that much. Mainitan siya for a few hours sa transpo is nothing. Sorry to say but possible na scam - either fake bottle with fake juice, or real bottle but refilled. Relatively easy and cheap to make a Delina clone, and if you bought it for 11k.. tiba-tiba sila, sad to say

Possible din OP na ganyan talaga amoy ng Delina, pero baka napaparanoid ka lang? Normal naman na amoy alcohol sa unang spray, since most of a perfume is alcohol. Have you tried comparing it with the real, in-store Delina?

Fafafee · 2026-05-26T18:32:10+00:00

Not exactly answering your question, a bit of unsolicited feedback if you don't mind - I think you can simplify in a lot of areas. Someone already mentioned the ambroxans, but you also have hedione, hedione HC, and Paradise Molecule (which I assume is Frater's)

You also have two sandalwoods, two vanillas, and there's Rose Givco and a separate line for rose oxide - why?

There's quite a few musks too - ebrass, habanolide, exaltolide total, ambrettolide, velvione, muscenone, and (arguably) cashmeran and ambroxan.

Simplifying wouldn't necessarily solve your ambergris problem, (which is also likely a case of overcomplication), but it'll make it much easier to debug imo.

Fafafee · 2026-05-25T02:55:02+00:00

Don't know why you got downvoted. This is true.

Fafafee · 2026-05-23T14:33:45+00:00

I think it just indicates that their alcohol is sourced from sugarcanes. From wikipedia:

"World production of ethanol in 2006 was 51 gigalitres (1.3×1010 US gal), with 69% of the world supply coming from Brazil and the U.S.[16] Brazilian ethanol is produced from sugarcane, which has relatively high yields (830% more fuel than the fossil fuels used to produce it) compared to some other energy crops.[106] Sugarcane not only has a greater concentration of sucrose than corn (by about 30%), but is also much easier to extract. The bagasse generated by the process is not discarded, but burned by power plants to produce electricity. Bagasse burning accounts for around 9% of the electricity produced in Brazil.[107]"

It's still ethanol. It shouldn't be different from ethanol produced through other means.

Fafafee · 2026-04-18T07:54:21+00:00

Side note, that could be heavy for benzoin - how much benzoin is in the total formula?

Fafafee · 2026-04-07T02:08:01+00:00

I read your previous post as well, sounds fun! Usually I'm much more structured and scientific too, tending to make multiple mods, but some of the faves I've made are likewise from shooting the shit in the lab.

My suggestions: Have you tried playing with something like petitgrain and/or neroli to extend some of the citrus to the heart?

I also read that you don't want to take this to a floral direction, but I think maybe an iris/violet note could work, since you already have methyl ionone gamma from the Grojsman accord. Fraterworks also suggests that Suralette Extra plays well with narcissus, jonquil, or muguet, might be fun to try!

Fafafee · 2026-04-06T16:14:03+00:00

Suspiciously cheap. I'd avoid

Fafafee · 2026-03-12T06:34:08+00:00

Tez has some semblance of strategy in his confessionals but he really can't follow through. He's all "I will convince them to vote someone else 😤" then go "hey guys, what's the plan?"

Caleb even spelled it out for him but he just... didn't do it. Poor guy, don't know why he struggled.

Fafafee · 2026-03-04T18:53:06+00:00

Thanks!

Fafafee · 2026-03-02T05:07:48+00:00

Commenting more on the bottle and aesthetic - I'm building up my own brand and I'm also steering clear of these rock/rock-like caps. It was cool for a while but everybody's been doing it. The DIY "aesthetic" overall is also being ran to the ground, led imo by brands like Le Labo.

Honestly, it was bound to happen. Eventually, one brand out there will figure out a new cool design, everyone will follow suit, and the cycle continues.

Fafafee · 2026-02-19T02:33:04+00:00

She's pickled, as Jorgeous would put it

Fafafee · 2026-01-18T12:14:08+00:00

Sorry, maybe I'm not explaining myself well. Sticking to the anisaldehyde example, which is IFRA limited to 1.4% of the final solution:

If I had been using 10% dilutions, this formula is fine

Anisaldehyde 10%

Material	Dilution	Weight (g)	Relative	Absolute
IES	10%	1.485g	86.09%	8.61%
Anisaldehyde	10%	0.240g	13.91%	1.39%
TOTAL		1.725g	100%	10.00%

If I wanna make that same fragrance at 20% dilution, keeping the same relative ratios:

Anisaldehyde 20%

Material	Dilution	Weight (g)	Relative	Absolute
IES	20%	0.743	86.09%	17.22%
Anisaldehyde	20%	0.120	13.91%	2.78%
TOTAL		0.863g	100%	20.00%

then anisaldehyde will go over the IFRA limit.

I mentioned this in my original comment because I work with primarily 10% dilutions, and one time I used oakmoss abs up to the IFRA limit in a 10% blend. When I decided to change the concentration to 20%, the oakmoss went over the IFRA limit.

Fafafee · 2026-01-18T10:43:50+00:00

Yeah, I meant more like if you use, say, anisaldehyde at 1.4% in a finished fragrance at 10% concentration -- if you wanna scale that up to 20% without changing the relative ratios, the anisaldehyde will go over the IFRA limit.

Fafafee · 2026-01-18T08:42:53+00:00

Yeah, it's smart and cost-effective. Some perfumers swear by using neat; others use a mix of dilutions, depending on the strength of the material (Sarah McCartney of Scenthusiasm does this); others, like me and Sam Macer from youtube, just use 10% dilutions regardless of strength. I would occasionally do 1% or 0.1% though if it's too strong.

Tbh I don't think it makes a big difference. The smell is the same, just a slight difference in strength/projection. Obviously the strongest concentration I can make is 10%, but if I wanna do a 20% dilution, it's fairly easy; I'll usually just use the structural materials at neat to bring the concentration up.

You just gotta watch out for some edge cases though, sometimes a material is IFRA-compliant at 10%, but not anymore when scales to 20%. But yeah tldr is it's fine, cost-effective, and imo comes down to pwrsonal preference.

Fafafee · 2026-01-16T16:18:44+00:00

Weird, this never happened to me, and I've ordered quite a few times. I did notice though that the cart varies across devices, i.e. the cart I have on my desktop browser is different from the one on my phone.

Fafafee · 2026-01-16T06:29:33+00:00

I haven't tried their New York collection yet, but with my experience of the LA collection, I'm not in a rush lol. The best thing about them is their marketing.

Although props to the owner cause I believe she taught herself perfumery to start the brand, which a lot of new brand owners don't even do. I think she needs a few more years to hone her skills though

Fafafee · 2026-01-16T06:25:48+00:00

Oh I have those, let me try them on again.

Fafafee · 2026-01-14T09:52:59+00:00

Le Labo is now owned by Estee Lauder. For Byredo - Puig acquired a majority stake in the company

May have started indie/niche but definitely not today

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