u/Cautious_Patient1146

Hi, I'm a self-taught perfumer from Ukraine and I'd like to find someone from my country to share experience in this field.

I have bought 6 synthetic sandalwood materials: Javanol, Bacdanol, Ebanol, Sandal Butenol, Sandalore and Polysantol. They are so different! I can't understand, how to create neutral note of sandalwood. Maybe you can give me an advice? Of course I understand, I need not only this six materials. If you have experience of work with this ingredients, please, help me!

I mean what difference between PEA, Citronellol, Geraniol, Nerol, Rose Acetate, Rhodinol, Phenoxanol and other popular rosy ingredients?

I have scrolled a perfumers shop, and saw Tetrahydro Geraniol. I need to create soapy, waxy, astringent accent in clean floral perfume. How do you think, can I to use this material to reach my goal?

How do you prefer to mix ingredients? For first mix accords, and then mix them between themselves, or mix raw ingredients out of accords? Accords method is comfortable, but I think severely limits fine-tuning of the fragrance. Or I just come up with problems?

Benzyl salicylate is pretty good for floral scents. But what's wrong with hexyl and isoamyl salicylates? They have a big difference between smell in theory and smell in practice. I have no ideas where I can use them

You shouldn't add water, but what should you add to your perfume to reduce the alcohol content and soften the onset? Dipropylene glycol?

I really need a high-quality scales, but I do not know where to buy it. A long time ago I have bought cheap scales with 0.01g step, and it have a large error, which do not let me to work. I want to buy nice scales with 0.001g step, but I do not know where. Can I trust local shop for perfumers? They sell scales for 1000 UAH (23$). Maybe can I find it for less money?

I use musky accord (Romandolide, Galaxolide, Globalide, Zenolide, Ethylene Brassylate) (30%), Cashmeran (3%), Amberwood (2%), Sandalwood accord (Bacdanol, Sandalore, Polysantol) (10%), and I can feel only a very weak musky scent. How to make base more powerful?

I have own musky accord (Romandolide > Globalide > Galaxolide > Ethylene Brassylate > Zenolide). How make it great diffusion? I want to make musky perfume. Any ideas?

Sometimes soap has a specific, astringent metallic note. I detected this in Comme des Garçons Marseille. How can it be recreated? What might produce such olfactory sharpness and astringency? I want to add it to my soapy, aldehydic-musky perfume

I have bought Galaxolide (50% DEP), Globalide, Zenolide, Romandolide and Ethylene Brassylate (Musk T). I want to create powerful clean white musk accord. I am thinking about using Globalide as a base, Romandolide in big quantity for musk top note, Galaxolide for typical clean accent, Ethylene Brassylate for fixation and a little bit of sweetness, Zenolide for diversity. What do you think about this? What is your experience with this musks?

Hi guys. What do you think about Adoxal? What is it smell? What ingredients smell similar to Adoxal? In which doses you recommend to use it? What your personal experience with this component?

I'm making a perfume concentrate to which I need to add 0.5% of an aldehyde accord. The concentrate itself weighs just over 1 gram, and naturally, adding that much aldehyde is impossible without dilution. So, I'll be adding aldehydes diluted in perfume alcohol. Is this alcohol considered part of the concentrate, or not? Is it worth bothering and only counting the pure substance, or is it better to just forget about it and consider the diluted aldehydes as a separate substance, rather than pure aldehydes and alcohol?

What do you think about Amberwood? In what amount and where is good to use it? What about a mix Amberwood + Ambroxan?

Someone said that 1% of aldehydes is too much and that they will be aggressive. I am planning to use 0.7% Aldehyde C-11 Undecylenic and 0.3% Aldehyde C-12 MNA in a musky, soapy scent. Musks will make up 35% of the concentrate! I guess the aldehydes will penetrate this amount of musk and give a soapy, fresh smell, but it's not too much. What do you think? What is your experience of work with aldehydes?

I bought it about 9-10 months ago in a 2 ml volume. It comes in a 5 ml bottle (I haven't decanted it; it comes in that bottle from the factory). The bottle is made of dark glass and was stored in a closed box under the bed. It's stored at room temperature. I need to work with it, but I can't tell if it's spoiled or not. I only noticed that it's not as loud as I previously thought, but this is more of a nuance in perception than a change in its appearance. What are the signs of spoilage?

Recently, I have been preparing to mix a soapy, clean, musky perfume inspired by Blanche by Byredo. I mixed four accords: a sandalwood accord (Bacdanol, Sandalore, etc.), a musk accord (Galaxolide + Ethylene Brassylate as a base, and some modern musks like Romandolide), a soapy floral accord (with Hydroxycitronellal as the main theme), and a fresh opening accord (lavender and citrus using Dihydromyrcenol + a little bit of Linalool, etc.).
I have some materials which I plan to use separately from the accords: Aldehydes C-11 Undecylenic and C-12 MNA, Cashmeran, Iso E Super, Methyl Ionone Gamma, and Benzyl Salicylate. I have no questions about the aldehydes, but as for the other components...
I have an idea to use Benzyl Salicylate in large quantities (~10% of the concentrate) because it has a neutral floral-balsamic scent and improves longevity. Iso E Super will be a bit lower, around 5-7%. Methyl Ionone Gamma has a powdery accent that fits the sandalwood role (not more than 5%). Finally, I'll add Cashmeran for longevity and contrast, just a little bit — 1-2%.

I need your opinion!