How to Make Perfume - From Flowers
Option A
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This is how :
1. Find a flower or flowers that you want to smell like. 1-1 1/2 cups of flower petals will work best. Make sure these flowers are pesticide-free.
2. Wash the flower petals, removing all dirt and other possible contaminates.
3. Put two cups of distilled water in an aluminum pan. You can make your own distilled water. All you have to do is boil water and collect the steam. The steam will turn into distilled water.
4. Put the petals into the pan. Work the water into a just-below-boiling simmer. You don't want to cook the flowers. This will ruin the scent.
5. Let contents simmer for about two hours. Check periodically to make sure that pot isn't boiling over and that you haven't run out of water.
6. Turn off the heat. Let the contents cool.
7. Strain contents through cheesecloth until all the solid bits are gone.
8. Put the perfume in a bottle or other storage device.
9. You are done. Use as normal.
Option B
1. Find a flower or flowers that you want to smell like and are highly scented.
2. Start by crushing some of the petals using an herb chopper. No need to cut them a little bit small.
3. Put them into a little jar to soak some in the perfume as alcohol for roughly 12 weeks to allow the aroma to be drawn out of the petals out into the liquid.
4. Keep it somewhere cool and dark like in a cupboard and try to forget about it for 3 months.
5. After 3 months, filter the perfume all out. You can see it's picked up some of the color from the rose petals and the aroma as well. Just pour into a perfume bottle. You are done and use as normal.
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