Lesson 01

A fragrance is a formula delivered through a product.

Start with the product in your hand. The formula creates the smell; the carrier or base and finished format shape how that formula reaches you.

THE IMPORTANT PART

A perfume is not a note list floating inside a bottle. Aromatic materials make a formula, and that formula is prepared for a finished product you can spray, dab or apply.

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Follow the formula into the product.

Choose a stage to see what changes hands. This is one connected production path—not three equal ingredients being poured together.

1 · Formula

Aromatic materials are composed into a fragrance formula.

Natural extracts, synthetic aroma materials and prepared bases can all be part of the composition.

Materials become one composed smell structure.
NOTES

What the fragrance is designed to suggest.

Notes are communication: pear, smoke, suede, sea air. They describe an impression, but do not promise one literal ingredient behind each word.

MATERIALS

What is actually used in the formula.

A formula may use natural extracts, synthetic aroma materials and prepared bases. Public note lists rarely disclose the complete recipe.

ACCORDS

Several materials acting like one idea.

An amber, leather or pear accord can be constructed. “Constructed” describes how an effect is built; it is not a synonym for bad or fake.