Get a boost in your perfumery abilities by learning from these formulas for fine fragrances.
First off, to be clear, this is not the modern Sauvage from Dior featuring Johnny Depp. This is the original 1966 Edmond Roudnitska masterpiece cologne: the first mass market fragrance to use the glorious power of hedione, newly discovered and captive by Firmenich at the time. This is my version of the fragrance which I …
This is the formula for a fragrance I make for my own use. It is full of ingredients that are outright banned from commercial use and quantities of luxury materials that are simply beyond the pocket book of most people. I found this at some point in my travels through various perfumery books or websites …
Green Irish Tweed is one of the most brilliantly constructed green fougere type fragrances ever created. In this, my version, I am including all of the original non-IFRA and non-EU compliant ingredients because it is profoundly beautiful in its original form. You can always do substitutes if you are concerned with those regulating bodies. Additionally, …
“Every city, let me teach you, has its own smell.” So said E. M. Forster in A Room With A View. As a hobbyist perfumer I am fascinated by smell—particularly the smells of history. It was a precious and rare vial of the 1905 perfume, L’Origan, that decided me on the hobby. I openened the …
Neroli Portofino is a very popular modern take on the classic cologne. Neroli is used in a vast number of men’s fragrances as a basic note, and in women’s fragrances often as an accent. In traces or overdose it is exceedingly beautiful. This formula takes the Tom Ford iteration of a cologne and ramps it …
In perfume, the nearly odorless solar chemical benzyl salicylate has a magical power to open a fragrance up and add freshness, beauty, and radiance. Coco, by Chanel, is beautiful with its clove, patchouli, and lily of the valley components, but when benzyl salicylate is added to the mix, those three are transformed into the gorgeous …
Terre D’Hermes is an extraordinary fragrance of woods, vetiver, pepper, and mosses. It is universally loved and while it tends toward the masculine, it is quite unisex. This is my take on the wonderful fragrance. It does use a few restricted ingredients (not restricted when the fragrance was first created) but generally it is straightforward …
Clinique Happy for men is an aromatic citrus fragrance which is one of the most appealing and fresh scents for summer time. It is one of those fragrances that will always garner comments or exclamations of “I love that fragrance! What are you wearing!?” With summer about to emerge with us all from the lockdown …
This is an incredibly special formula. It is based off authentic notes from the original fragrance, GCMS data, and my own additions (mainly to add a few modern touches of great beauty). It is the closest thing you will find anywhere to a formula based off the original version of the perfume that was sold …
Everyone loves Aventus by Creed. It is their number one best selling fragrance and probably the most cloned. Sauvage by Christian Dior and more recently Mont Blanc’s Explorer are very similar in style (Explorer being virtually a clone – and considered better than Aventus by some reviewers!) When perfume reviewers and experts are asked “what …
