When sitting down to create your fragrance, you might start by designing your Base Accord. The most popular modern base notes are the musks, soft woods, and ambers. The best way (in my opinion) to learn is by blending a few sample accords based on a formula, then experimenting with them. When I first started learning to cook, I followed recipes until I was very familiar with the ingredients, then I became confident enough to make the dishes my own!
Below is an accord for soft musk fragrance:
Simple Musk Accord
Ethylene Brassylate - 2.5 grams
Galaxolide 50% - 2 grams
Velvione - .5 gram
Thibetolide (Exaltolide) - .5 gram
Ambrettolide - .1 gram
Ethylene Brassylate is a light warm musk
Galaxolide is a very common musk used in many professional blends.
These two light musks form the "anchor" to the accord.
Exaltolide gives a powdery, slightly animal character
Velvione and Ambrettolide used together
give elegance, enhancing the other
musks.
Once you're familiar with these components, you could start substituting or adding other fine musks to the blend.
Click Here For a more sophisticated ambery musk blend.
Next you would work on your middle accord.
You can choose which direction to go; Floral, Tropical, Ozone/Marine, whatever!
Click Here For some sample floral accords.
For ozone and marine accords, you could try Scentanal or Calone, perhaps with a tiny touch of Ultrazur.
Here is a sample middle accord for this type of fragrance.
Hedione (floral smoothness) 28
ethyl linalool (lighly floral) 6
helional (ozone) 2
calone (marine) 1
or substitute 3 parts Scentenal for the Helional and Calone
Don't be afraid to play a bit with these proportions!
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