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| An Autumn Equinox Eve's Hydrosol Elixir |
This composition is for a 2 fl. oz. spritzer.
The starter oil was a bottom-of-the-bottle ring of leftover oil from a trefle magnolia citrus hydrosol. It had an impression of a fresh shampoo.
I added, to begin with:
2 drops of patchouli oil
This shifted the composition to heavily woodsy. I wanted to make a light, feminine, playful floral citrus fragrance, out of it, with a touch of spice:
6 mL IPM
50 mL water
14 drops magnolia
¼ mL Calibrian Bergamot BF
½ mL 10% Tonka bean absolute in IPM
¾ mL 10% Cocoa absolute in IPM
⅛ mL 10% blackcurrant Bud Absolute in IPM
5 drops Rose Otto
2 drops Carnation essential oil
7 drops cashmeran
⅓ mL coniferan
¼ gram Ambroxan
¼ gram Exaltone
⅓ mL Limetol
¼ mL Fixateur
4 drops Anther
⅛ mL Canthoxal
1 slight drip vetiver oil
2 drops Cinnamon Flavor (maybe try 1; I used 2, and it's a bit prominent)
½ drip Black Hemlock Absolute
⅙ mL Rhubofix
2 drops 10:1 Water to Lavandin mailette Absolute Oil
⅒ gram Prismantol
⅓ mL Coumarex DB
This composition was fairly satisfactory and nice smelling, perhaps a mellis fragrance, citrus fresh, with rich, sweet, and sensuous floral effects to it. I found that spraying it a sensible amount didn't quite feel like enough, so maybe it has some stimulating and addictive features to it.
After carrying the fragrance around for a couple of hours, the fragrance oil, which had grown from ¼-⅓ band of oil on top of water, in to the ⅔ band of milky emulsified lipophilic layer, in water, as pictured.
If you get around to creating this fragrance, yourself, enjoy!
