Beauty DIY: Make Your Own Perfumes Using Essential Oils

Beauty DIY:  Make Your Own Perfumes Using Essential Oils

Formulating your perfume using essential oils can be extremely easy and fun; asides from that, you can also create mind-blowing scents. Creating a unique scent that cannot be formulated easily is also a major feat if you ask me. It would be best if you had your essential oils, alcohol, and a roller bottle set down, then you are good to go. Alternatively, you can use a diffuser to store your mixture if you prefer that. 

Brief Overview On Essential Oils

Essential oils are oils procured from the distillation of plants or other sources from which they can be extracted. It is highly concentrated compared to natural oils, which are diluted to some extent. They are packed with numerous benefits, and aromatherapy is one of the ways to tap into these benefits. With aromatherapy, also called essential oil therapy, you can use essential oils to alleviate your physical and mental well-being. There are many essential oils to choose from to formulate perfumes, but before that, there are basic things to note. They include:

  • Make Researches Your Ingredients

Before delving into making your perfumes immediately, you need to adopt some preventive measures, especially in cases where you would use essential oils from plants. As stipulated by the International Fragrance Association, most essential oils tend to irritate the skin and cause reactions. It is of utmost importance that you stick to the exact measurements used by your guide when making your perfumes to avoid complications. For instance, essences from citrus-like lime essential oil cause photosensitivity, so always do thorough research on your ingredients before use. The fact that your oils are natural doesn't make them harmless.

  • Master the Composition of a Scent

It is not just enough to want to make your perfume and mix various types of oils. Then voila, you've got a hit, no. There are many compartments and stages available when making perfumes; understanding the composition of an aroma is key. Note that perfume oils are divided into base, heart, and head. You encounter the headnotes when you scent a perfume first and then the heart note followed by the base note, which tends to last the longest. Mastering the art of these notes would help you formulate attractive and long-lasting scents.

  • Choosing Your Oils

How you mix your oils is solely your choice; however, there are some guidelines you can follow which would help produce better results. For instance, citrus essence is used mostly as headnotes because it has a more assertive and potent scent, while floras' are used as the heart notes because of their light and airy scent and woody scents are best used as base notes. An example of a perfect blend would be a mixture of bergamot, jasmine, and sandalwood essential oil.

  • How to Apply Your Perfume Oil

Based on your perfume bottle, you can apply your oil perfume by either rolling it on or spraying it. To preserve your fragrance better, apply it on the basic pulse points like your wrist, inner elbow, nape of your neck, your collarbone, chest, and top of your arms. Homemade perfumes have got to be the best types of elixirs concocted because they contain powerful and unique scents, give it a try, and you would never buy the fragrances sold at the stores anymore!

Essential Oil Perfume Blends

These blends are just basic guidelines you can try out before you muster up the courage to mix your oils independently. Play with these blends and find the scents you like!

Floral

The two well-known essential oils that head this field are rose and jasmine oil. To prevent them from overshadowing the other oils in your perfume, you have to mix them with almost any time of citrus essential oil. For floral perfume oil, mix five drops of sweet orange oil, two drops of organic lime oil, two drops of jasmine oil and two drops of vanilla oil. Yet another simple but astonishing blend is the rose perfume, a mixture of 2 drops of rose absolute, four drops of sandalwood oil, and five drops of bergamot oil.

Citrus

The citrus aroma has its way of uplifting and giving a fresh feel. Apply these when you need a mood booster or an energy boost. If you do not fancy the afternoon feel associated with rosemary oil, you can opt for lavender oil instead. You can always smell your mixture while making it to figure out if you like the outcome while in the process. One of the best blends to try is the citrus bliss which is made of 2 drops of lemon oil, three drops of lime, and five drops of vanilla oil. Another one you can try out is the lemon rosemary; add five drops of lemon, three drops of rosemary, and two drops of Neroli, or you can opt for four drops of sweet orange, and you are good to go.

Earthy

Lovers of the earthy and musky scents should hop on these essential oil perfume blends. The fact that patchouli mixes very well with literally most essential oils makes it one of the best earthy scents, if not the best! You can make the patchouli palmarosa perfume with three drops of patchouli, three drops of palmarosa, one drop of vetiver, four drops of cedarwood, and one drop of Neroli oil.

Spicy

With the strong scent clove has, it can easily overshadow your blend, so go easy with it or make use of a pipette. A recipe that would turn heads is the bergamot clove made up of 5 drops of bergamot, one drop of clove, four drops of sandalwood and two drops of vanilla essential oil. You can also make the bergamot clove perfume if you are up for it by adding five drops of bergamot, one drop of clove, four drops of sandalwood, and two drops of vanilla oil.

Earthy and Floral

If there is a combination that complements each other tremendously well, it has to be the earthy and floral scents. You can try it out and see for yourself the sweet and spicy perfume made up of 3 drops of patchouli, two drops of ylang-ylang, and five drops of lavender oil.