Disambiguation DIY education ingredient Making your own perfume Sticky Leather Sky
10 January 2015 / 27 July 2023 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
I thought it might be useful to do another in my occasional series of disambiguation posts about perfumery ingredients with easily confused names or equivalences. This time I’m looking at a group of similar ingredients used to create an earthy, leather note in fragrances: No quinolines in Sticky Leather Sky Isobutyl quinoline (CAS number 65442-31-1), of which […]
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Disambiguation DIY education ingredient natural
19 July 2013 / 26 April 2024 by Pell Wall (Chris) | 2 Comments on Natural Perfume Materials: what the terms mean
There are quite a few methods by which the aromatic principles of natural materials are made available for use in perfumery and unfortunately some of the terms used are obscure and others are sometimes mis-used. The purpose of this post is to set out the main terms used, together with definitions of widespread acceptance. In […]
ambergris animal Disambiguation DIY education Making your own perfume natural synthetic
29 April 2013 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
I’ve written already about natural ambergris (also called Ambra) and mentioned there that most perfumery uses synthetic substitutes. Here I’m setting out some of those substitutes (mainly synthetic, but including some naturals) and trying to sort out some of the confusion resulting from the fact that there are so many different products with very similar names. […]
aldehydes Disambiguation DIY ingredient Making your own perfume synthetic
7 February 2013 / 26 April 2024 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
One of the fragrance ingredient groups that many people with a bit of knowledge of fragrance have at least heard of is the Aldehydes. Made famous by their inclusion in Chanel 5 they have been in widespread use in perfumes since the 1920s. When we talk about aldehydes in the context of perfumery what is […]
Disambiguation DIY education ingredient Making your own perfume natural
28 April 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | Leave a Comment
Perfumery ingredients often have fascinating names, sometimes confused by different usages and this is a case in point, in this case there are three different ingredients, all fixative base notes, that are easily confused: Benzoin, used alone, or prefixed with Sumatra, usually refers to Styrax benzoin (also called Benzoin resinoid*), whereas Benzoin Siam is usually used to refer to Styrax tonkinensis – […]
artemisia Devana Disambiguation DIY estragon ingredient Making your own perfume natural vetiver
26 February 2012 by Pell Wall (Chris) | 2 Comments on Artemisia – and how to identify natural perfumery ingredients
Artemisia absinthium Lambrook Sliver I used Artemisia absinthium as the key ingredient in my fragrance Devana, but it’s raised a few questions about what it is and whether there are other similar plants about. I think the genus Artemisia is rather an interesting one, so I thought I’d expand on it a bit here. First […]
