Blood orange/ cedar simple perfume

[Naia]

This is a new thing I have played around with and it's what I'm wearing most of the time right now. Everyone seems to really love it and were talking hugs and then being peppered with compliments.

This is not something anyone else can put together exactly as is since 2 of the accords are made by myself. I am however, posting it to illustrate that you can make beautiful perfumes from relatively simple mixes that let you explore your materials and let you exercise your nose in balancing exercises and use other projects you have made. You can use replacements and use your skills to balance it to your liking. Likely ending up with something that will at least make you happy.

Blood orange acc rb 2
Ginger fresh eo 2
Atlas Cedar eo 2
Mountain Air acc cp .5 *from creatingperfume.com
Vanilla acc rb 1
Galaxolide 2
Maltol .4
Cardamom eo .1

 

[pierpaolo72]

Naia,
if i may, what is more in detail the accord ' blood orange ' ?

 

[pkiler]

Is your blood orange accord to duplicate Blood Orange EO? (but eliminate the allergenic components?)

 

[pkiler]

Which makes it thus:

Blood orange acc rb 2		18.35%
Ginger fresh eo 2		18.35%
Atlas Cedar eo 2		18.35%
Mountain Air acc cp .5 *from creatingperfume.com		4.59%
Vanilla acc rb 1		9.17%
Galaxolide 2		18.35%
Maltol .4		3.67%
Cardamom eo .1		9.17%

 

[Naia]

The blood orange was made because I found blood orange eo not much different than orange eo and was disappointed with the smell compared to the taste and smell of the real thing. So the accord is meant to be a more realistic portrait. I did work off of a gcms but there is quite a lot of interpretation to make it modern, long lasting materials with clearer communication of what eating a real one is like. It makes my mouth squinch from top to bottom and lasts a long time so I'm happy with it.

In part, it contains iso e super, and poivrol because it is a bit spicy and woody in the base. Because blood orange does smell gasoline like, metallic and red; citral, citrolate, orinox, neryl acetate, geranil acetae, geraniol, raspberry ketone. Delicate touches of sulpher and thymol. Many touches of aldehydes, every other citrus material I own including valencene.

 

[Naia]

I think of it more like

Blood orange acc rb 2 20.00%
Ginger fresh eo 2 20.00%
Atlas Cedar eo 2 20.00%
Mountain Air acc cp .5 5.00%
Vanilla acc rb 1 10.00%
Galaxolide 2 20.00%
Maltol .4 4.00%
Cardamom eo .1 1.00%

 

[pkiler]

I think of it more like

Blood orange acc rb 2 20.00%
Ginger fresh eo 2 20.00%
Atlas Cedar eo 2 20.00%
Mountain Air acc cp .5 5.00%
Vanilla acc rb 1 10.00%
Galaxolide 2 20.00%
Maltol .4 4.00%
Cardamom eo .1 1.00%

Oh, yes, I missed that decimal in Cardamom, sorry.

 

[Clare30]

Such a coincidence, I was using my organic blood orange wth some oil soluble vanilla oleoresin to scent a wash-off orange cream cleanser I made today ( no need to make an accord for the blood orange- it's just yummy) , and the smell was so heavenly, I thought "Why don't I use this as lead-on into a perfume?" and was sniffing things that would go with it. I do a ginger, mandarin and ylang room spray, so i wanted to get away from the ginger elements, but cedarwood heart really oomphed it, never thought of a touch of cardamom, but that seems perfect. I don't have mountain air accord, but yes, woody, fresh orange is just lovely - Guerlain used to do an Acqua Allegoria that smelled of fresh orange and woody drydown, and it was lush. Discontinued now, I think.

Thanks for posting the formula

 

[Faceless void]

is it too much of vanilla ?

 

[pkiler]

is it too much of vanilla ?

It is a boatload of vanilla. Likely more than 10X too much for me, but not for everyone...

Andy Tauer's LDDM is 11.25% Vanillin, and people love it...

Back to the formula above, I'm not sure if I would smell anything else BUT the vanillin.

 

[Naia]

Keep in mind it is also a handmade vanilla accord. There is no ethyl vanillin in it, but also some softer vanilla materials as well as herbal ones and there is a dilution of about 50% built into it since many of my ac's are diluted like that but eos are not. So even if its 10% of total you can read it more like 5%. However, I am also a lady and this is feminine leaning. Still not as much vanilla as friends I have who wear brown sugar vanilla perfume, body spray, lotions, and dryer sheets all at once. lol I'm sure a man would have different materials and balance it to different tastes. This as a perfume smells of blood orange and cedar, everything else is a warm background.