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Your own garden can provide wonderful floral material for your perfume. These are the fragrant materials that were used in Part I of this series of articles on creating your own perfume.
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Making tea may seem off topic for the would-be creator of perfume but it is not.
If we go back to our first method of making perfume and now take the left over, water soaked, natural materials in our cheesecloth bag —the materials we were using to extract an aroma — and put them in a cooking pot and pour boiling water over them, we are making tea! Natural tea.
After steeping for ten or fifteen minutes, we can filter this brew through a coffee filter into a cup and we have our finished tea.
Notice immediately that it has a stronger aroma than our first jar of finished perfume, but the fragrance is no longer floral. Now the fragrance is more of an extraction from the other natural materials we originally selected such as flower stems, leaves, bark, pine resin, or whatever.
Allow the cup to cool and you now have your second perfume, one that is quite different than your first!
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Lessons Learned
We discover here that by using heat we can extract fragrance from natural materials that do not easily give up their fragrance when soaked in water. And, if we observe carefully, we discover that the emphasis in our new scent is not on the floral fragrance we were originally seeking but on what we looked upon as the "decorations" to that floral scent — the stems, bark, leaves, resin gums, etc.
Had we poured boiling water on flower petals alone, we would have produced a different fragrant water but we would have discovered that far from giving us a nice extraction of the essential oils in our flowers, it would have rendered them far less "floral" than what we wanted.
Challenges That Lie Ahead
We can begin to use essential oils to create our own perfumes without understanding how they are extracted from natural materials. For now, the important lesson is that, if we are serious about making our own perfume, we must call upon technology to give us "workable" perfumery materials.
But before going on and beginning to work with essential oils, it is useful to know a little about the processes that give us the ability to extract these essential oils from materials discovered in the natural world.
Part I: Making Your Own Perfume For Pleasure or for Profit
Part III: Extracting Essential Oils Through Distillation
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A really great name, a special name that is just right for a particular perfume or perfume marketer (or entrepreneur with money to invest!) can be worth a ton of money. But few individuals with great ideas ever manage to cash in on those brilliant ideas. Instead they wait while others "discover" their idea, acquire legal rights to it and make all the money while they are left out in the cold without a penny having been earned for what was once THEIR idea.
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Now when you make your own perfume you can make it fully "commercial" meaning you will be creating a product ready for regular, continuous sales to friends, relatives, and the public! If the fragrance you've made has already won praise, why not share it with others? Some might pay you for it and want it for their web stores or retail boutiques! Creating your own perfume from dropper bottles: Methods, mechanics, and mathematics guides you through steps that can turn your hobby project into a perfume business. Discover how close you are now and how little more you must do to take what you made with essential oils and dropper bottles into a business of your own! For an introduction to this book, watch this video.
When you name a perfume you create a valuable asset – the name itself. To sell your perfume you want the most effective name possible. But a good name can have value beyond the edge it gives your sales. In naming your fragrance you are creating a trademark and a trademark can have value independent of the product. The value of that trademark can vary. Much depends on how well, in naming your perfume, you follow the trademark "rules." How To Create A More Valuable Name For Your Perfume first helps you develop a name that will be effective in selling your perfume. It then prods you to make use of certain techniques that can turn a good name into a great trademark, strong and valuable. If you have questions about how to protect a name, How To Create A More Valuable Name For Your Perfume will answer many such as:
- Can you protect your name yourself or do you need a lawyer?
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- What does it cost to register a trademark?
- How do I enforce the rights I have established?
How To Create A More Valuable Name For Your Perfume covers both state, federal, and international protection.
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Philip Goutell
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