Custom Printed Perfume Test Blotters

Unscented Perfume Smelling Strips
For Fragrance Sampling and Testing

Click on image to enlarge 3 Styles Available: Aerosol testing blotters, paddle style, arrow style. See details below.

French perfumers call them mouillettes ("bread sticks", pronounced moo-yets). They are dipped in fragrance, allowed to dry, then held, momentarily, close to the nose so that the fragrance may be inhaled. It is through the use of these smelling strips that fine perfumes are created, step by step, until the perfumer is ready to present the new compound to the client and the client ready to accept it.

In the laboratory, long, thin, smelling strips are preferred because the perfumer will be dipped then into bottles or vials with thin necks. (See item # PSS-101 below.)

For the client, thicker paddle type test blotters are often preferred. (See item PSS-100 below.) The thin end can be dipped into a vial holding the new perfume while the wider paddle end can be sprayed with a fine mist spray bottle.

Purity and freedom from contamination are requirements of perfume test blotters. Their papers are "unsized," meaning they are free from the sizing added to writing papers (to prevent ink from being absorbed too deeply.)

Smelling strips of a light paper, such as chromatography paper, are preferred by some perfumers in that the thinness of the paper allows the compound to spread. This helps the perfumer analyze the makeup of the compound being tested (using his or her nose!) The purpose of such testing is, after all, to determine what adjustments need to be made to the formula.

Thicker strips are often preferred for client presentation in that they present a more consistent odor.

For testing and sampling perfumes, it is important to remember that whatever smelling strips are used, the same testing strips should be used for all tests! Avoid testing one batch with one type of smelling strip and testing another with smelling strips from a different manufacturer.

We offer both thin (laboratory) perfume smelling strips and thicker, paddle-type, (client presentation) smelling strips. Both are free of impurities and suitable for testing fine fragrance compounds.

Client Presentation Perfume Smelling Strips
Paddle shape, 5" long, in packages of 100.

Item # PSS-100A
Package of 100 Unscented Heavy Perfume Smelling Strips ... $7.95

$7.95 for one pack (100 test strips) $19.95 for three packs (You save 3.90) $34.98 for six packs (You save $12.72)

"Thin Arrow" Perfume Smelling Strip
For dipping into bottle, mixing pot, or test tube, 6" long; 1/4" wide.
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Item # PSS-102
Package of 100 Unscented Arrow-Type Perfume Smelling Strips ...$7.95

$7.95 for one pack (100 test strips) $19.95 for three packs (You save $3.90) $34.98 for six packs (You save $12.72)

Aerosol Testing Blotter Booklets
Individual blotters are 2-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches (7.3 x 11.x cm). 20 blotters per booklet. Useful both for testing areosol sprays and for mixing tests for new accords.
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Item # PSS-104
3 Booklets of Aerosol Testing Blotters ... $12.96

3 booklets for $12.96 (60 sheets) 6 booklets for $24.96 (120 sheets) 9 booklets for $34.92 (180 sheets)

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