Exploding Perfume!!

After Vintage's experience sniffing near pure vodka on the two day mark, I was more cautious.  I approached the craft room table carefully, only to find that my perfume, left unattended in an air tight container for two days, had burst the lid off the container.   As I cleaned up that little mess I decided that I liked the smell, in which I could detect only faint trace of the $6.00 vodka, but felt a few changes were in order.   I ignored the directions which told me to leave it alone, and added as I pleased. A week passed, and my perfume was done. And near perfect!

I've worn it a few times, and here's what I learned...
-if I want the citrus or vanilla to linger more than a second, we need to buy essential oils, not fragrence oils
-I want to add some pine and some clove next time
-NEVER let your mom store your perfume in a partially opened container (re: exploding perfume above) on top of the dryer. My whole basement, which contains my bedroom, smelled of perfume for 3.5 weeks!

First blends

After waiting the required two day minimum, Vintage opened the container in which she had stored her blend.  A few more quick runs to other stores meant this was a blend of

-rose essential oil

-sadlewood essential oil

-vanilla fragrence oil

-citrus fragrence oil

and of course 2 oz of the $6.00 vodka.

She was sorely disappointed that it smelled like...vodka.

She waited another few days only to find the wildflower perfume young girls seem fond of.  The scent of rose had overpowered everything, and been transformed into a bland mess of a perfume.

But, we learned an important lesson.  Rose is an attention whore.  It would be another week, and another paycheck, before we bought more essential oils, and started again.

Finally, I had been paid again.  Off we went, for a street fair in a nearby small town, complete with a large soap store selling essential oils.  A whiff of this, a sniff of that, and I decided on a few things of my own.  I wanted a complex, spicy scent.  I choose rose (in low dose this time), patchoulli, and cinnamon. 
I sat in our craft room and I mixed and I blended rather like a mad scientist.  Eventually I used every single oil we had, added the vodka and left for two days.

How It All Began

  I shall begin by introducing Scents and Sensibility.  With names changed to protect the guilty, I am Spicy (my preferred scent of course) and my dearest friend ever we shall refer to as Vintage, not her preferred scent, but how I think of her. 

  A few weeks ago Vintage and I were shopping.  A fairly typical Saturday afternoon activity for two twenty something women.  As the sun began setting on our fair, small town, the stores began to close and we hurried to make one more stop before returning to our car.  This was a stop I, the hippy gal of our duo, wanted to make.  We had parked in front of an aromatherapy store, and I wanted to go in before we left.  We walked into the store just about five pm and proceded to wander for a good half hour.  I could not find what I wanted (camomile and bergomont essential oils for some candles), but Vintage found something she wanted.  Fourteen dollars later Vintage had two bottles in hand, rose and sandlewood, and we discovered the store we were in had closed thirty minutes before.
  That night we sat in Vintage's room and looked up how to make perfume.  Vintage was more than a little disappointed to discover the two oils she had purchased were not enough, so we decided to head to the mall in hopes of finding what we needed to finish off her scent.  While we found exactly nothing, we did decide that this would be fun and we would spend our spare time becoming amateur perfumers.
  After buying a $6.00 bottle of vodka that smelled like a good whiff could give you a hang over, we decided to play despite not having enough essential oils.  Despite the fact that it turned out bland and uninspiring, we were having to much fun to turn back now.
P.S. The $6.00 vodka was purely for perfume.  Vintage doesn't like Vodka and I refuse to drink anything but the best!