Making Perfume ** Was: Essential Oils in General

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Yo Marilyn,

 

> > Hey Butch

> >

> > > One thing.. I love the sandalwood (mysore) for aromatherapy, BUT,

> > > I also like the sandalwood WA for perfumery. <ok, lemmie have it!> LOL

> >

> > IF I were making perfume .. unless it was perfume for a person I

> > didn't really like ;-p I would ensure that it was the finest .. why

> > put second quality on my skin and run it through my olfactory system?

>

> Well.. probably cuz the person who I was blending for liked it? Which

> isn't actually my choice, but theirs.......somehow......

 

Seems like a fair reason to me .. ;-)

 

> I'm really trying to get a mental picture of you making perfume

> and it's just not happening ;-p

 

I reckon you're right .. but I make good Black Russians .. :-)

 

> And if someone else likes the mysore then that's what'll be in their

> blend. (my personal preference which doesn't matter when it's not my

> perfume)

 

Again .. seems fair to me .. ;-p

 

> > You know that the really expensive French perfumes are made from

> > real essential oils but most of the stuff at Walmart is synthetic.

> > My not so new and not so improved PC repairman today had some of the

> > stinkest crap on that I have ever smelled .. and though it is still

> > cold here, I had the maid open the windows every few minutes.. ;-)

>

> You should've sprayed him w/rose hydrosol ;-p

 

You know what? Today I changed barbers again .. not that I have enough

hair to care but I have a nice goatee now and I like the lines along the

jaw to be straighter'n ary angel .. and my last one needs glasses. But

anyway .. these Turkish barbers give a shave and haircut and scalp and

chair massage .. at today's exchange rate, it cost me $3.71 .. BUT it

was the FIRST time I have ever had one use Rose Hydrosol .. always they

use a Turkish Lemon Cologne .. which is good but the Rose Hydrosol was a

nice switch .. :-)

 

> Some of the really expensive French perfumes are made with Lilly of

> The Valley, no such essential oil....wish there was. Unless you're

> talking more expensive than I am?

 

I don't doubt it .. I was going on what one of the experienced perfume

chemists said on idma .. my favorite perfumes fer wimmens is Roma and

Samsari .. Roma is finer'n frog hair and all natural. There is one more

I can't even remember but my olfactory memory locked onto it. Way back

when I was too young to buy a beer in the USA .. but not too young to go

to the 'Nam .. I was heavy with a little French-Vietnames gal name of

Huong .. which means " Perfume, " and she wore one that was fantastic. I

left there in '64 and when I went back again in '68 I went to see her

but she had become a casualty to the VC ... bus hit a mine. Anyway, I

didn't smell such a perfume again till around '98 or '99. I was walking

down the street in Ankara and passed a lady who had that perfume .. I

went back and assured her I wasn't trying to hit on her but wanted the

name of the perfume. She told me, it rang a bell and danged if I have

not forgotten the name again .. but NEVER the odor.

 

> Ex: Chanel #'s 5 - 19.......others that make me sneeze, cough, wheeze,

> etc's.. looks pretty funny ;p

 

Gal sat behind me and a buddy last summer at the local outside watering

hole. She was wearing Poison and it is just that. I started sneezing

and couldn't stop .. it was embarrassing as hell. Then the gal and her

male friend started giggling so I told her that she was the reason for

my sneezing and the guy started to get bent out of shape when the woman

at the next table jumped in and told her it bothered her too .. ;-p

 

> > > Why? (Oh, yea, it is batch #'d, GC tested and I have the analysis...)

> >

> > Good show .. and what does the analysis say? I again point out that

> > there is a difference twixt purity and quality .. ;-p

>

> True enough, and at times you look for purity as in perfumery... not

> cat piss though! LOL I can get that right here, just take away the cat

> litter!

 

Bet that litter box smells better than Poison .. ;-p

 

> > > The why is that sometimes in blending you need that bitter

> > > undertone or bit of a bite that this oil has..........<ducking>

> >

> > OK .. I can understand that. For years, folks used whale vomit,

> > wile cat and deer piss to make perfume .. in fact, they still do to

> > a degree though ambergris, civit cat and musk deer glandular oils

> > are generally synthetic clones now.

>

> I know some that still use them, the civit, or so they say, makes me sick

 

Yea .. and whale puke ain't so nice either .. :-(

 

> > On my OLD Anatolian Treasures Guest Book .. you know the one you

> > were bringing back up to snuff when I ran out of time to go to the

> > bathroom even and had to put it all on hold .. ;-p In that old one

> > there is a comment dated October 13, 1999 .. from Heidi Feldman,

> > perfume maker and the ex-owner of the 1Toiletries List.

> > Heidi wrote " I have a few different variations of rose *oils*...

> many of them require more than one drop to appropriately round off a

> blend... however with Anatolian Rose oil, *1* drop is all that is

> needed to round the blend, more than 1 drop of Anatolian Rose tends to

> overpower the blend. I am extremely pleased with Anatolian Treasures'

> oils, (especially the oregano). Your rose oil deserves recognition! "

>

> Yep, still got the guestbook ready to go, if you ever get time to go

> to the bathroom, and I remember that post - it's true too... sure

> hoping you'll get more big bottles of the oregano dubium that I

> diffuse!

 

Got 50 kilos of the Origanum dubium Linalool type .. was like pulling

hen's teeth but we got it after collecting small amounts of the plant

from this and that village over a 3 month period. And it was delivered

to Friendsville Monday .. along with .. ta ta ta ta ta .. 50 kilos of

the Hydrosol from that oil ... ;-p

 

> Your oregano's work, plain and simple.

 

They do work .. but in truth, anybody's will work if its the real thing

and straight from the still. Though I am partial to the wildgrown.

 

> And Heidi's right on the rose oil.

 

Thankee m'am .. I will sho'nuf support that. In my opinion there is

none finer than the Turkish Rose Otto made by the Rose Growers Assoc.

 

> > Which means to me .. that you gotta go for where you get the most

> > bang for the buck or the most rubble for the ruble .. and some cat

> > piss goes further than others .. ;-p

> >

>

> ROFL, I " only " buy sandalwood (mysore) from you.. love it Generel

> comment it was that the other one's good for perfumery is all -

Understand .. was just speaking in generalities .. ;-p

 

> sooooooooo, the pc's fixed, not fixed, you threw the guy off the

> balcony...what???????????

 

Naaa .. he's a good kid .. just kinda slow .. ;-p Studying economics in

a country that doesn't believe it such things.

 

> Or he's coming back tomorrow? You know, if you threw him off the

> balcony, wouldn't they have to send someone else? Just a thought...

 

He ain't coming back till next week .. and if I threw him off, there

would only be one or two more like him in Turkey .. ;-p Tomorrow begins

the five day religeous holiday .. following the Haj is the Sacrificial

Holiday. Folks slaughter an animal and give the meat to the poor. The

way I been feeling lately, I'm thinking of slaughtering a chicken and

eating the whole dang thing myself .. I'll give the feets and the head

to the poor. It ain't like they gonna be hungry in the next few days

with all that free meat around .. ;-p Besides .. poor in Ankara means

your color TV screen is too small.

 

> Hugs,

> Marilyn- who's laughing like hell

 

And to you .. Butch who is gonna fill out two orders now and then suck a

couple of ice cold Turkish Efes Beers .. and laugh like hell .. :-p