Turn smelling notes into formulas you can rebuild a year from now. Grams, parts, dilutions, versioning, and the discipline of saving every trial.
WHAT IS IN THE BOTTLE:
WRITING THE WORK DOWN: A perfume that exists only in your head is not a perfume. A perfume that exists in a journal as "rose, bergamot, vanilla, with a bit of musk" is closer but still not reproducible. A perfume that exists as a written formula in grams, with dilutions stated, in a versioned trial log, can be made again, scaled, refined, and shared.
This book is about that last form. The mechanics of formula writing are simple. The discipline of using them every time is what separates a hobbyist who happens to mix things, from a perfumer building a body of work. Book Five gives you the conventions and the habits. Book Six puts them to work in your first complete accord.
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: The reader who has built a few accords by feel and is ready to write them down properly. You have a 0.01 gram scale, a journal, and a few dilutions on the shelf. You want to make sure the next good idea you have is one you can mix again next year.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 01 - Why perfumers write formulas, and why drops are not enough. 02 - How parts per hundred and parts per thousand work. 03 - How to use a 0.01 gram scale without errors. 04 - The standard formula column layout. 05 - How to read a formula written by another perfumer. 06 - How to handle diluted materials in a formula honestly. 07 - How to build a complete 100 part formula from a brief. 08 - How to version your work without losing earlier attempts. 09 - How to label trial samples for future you. 10 - How to keep a formula notebook that still makes sense five years later.
VOLUME: 5 of 10
What it is
Digital • Guide
