A Passion For Fragrances
The fragrance world continues to grow, with more people expressing a passion for scents. When I was about eight, I had already been interested in perfumes, enjoying making concoctions and relishing the creative process.
Many of my friends were keen on making scents, too, and we often found ourselves picking flowers from the neighbours’ gardens to craft our beautiful creations.
The neighbours weren’t happy about their flowers ‘disappearing,’ and we would deny any knowledge of picking them when approached. We had a wonderful collection of roses, lavender, and jasmine—the perfect fresh flowers for making our perfume.
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After picking such beautiful flowers from the neighbour’s garden, my friends and I would find a suitable bowl from my mother’s kitchen, pop them in, and crush them into tiny pieces with our fingers. It was a messy job—our fingers would end up covered in green and brown stains, and those flowers could leave a mark!
A passion for fragrances- the recipe
Once we had crushed the petals, we added water to achieve a liquid consistency. We aimed to create a bowl of crushed petals with just a drop of water that would result in a lovely scent.
However, instead of a delightful fragrance, the colours started to drain from the petals, and we ended up with a bowl of mush.
We left the bowl overnight in my bedroom to let the scent infuse. The next day, we drained the petals to remove the excess liquid, which we then transferred to a plastic bottle we had found in the bathroom.
Adding the best ingredients
Our scent wasn’t powerful, so we added another ingredient to give our concoction more authenticity. We thought the best addition would be a perfume bottle. The next step was finding a lovely perfume bottle to add to our mixture, and there was no better place to look than my mother’s bedroom.
Her collection was extensive, and she had so many bottles that she rarely used some of them. We figured she wouldn’t miss a little fragrance from the back of her collection, especially one she didn’t use very often.
So, we were ‘borrowing’ a bottle of my mother’s YSL Black Opium. I convinced myself she wouldn’t notice the scent missing from her expensive bottle. The smell was so distinctive that I would have remembered such a fragrance wafting around the house if she had been wearing it.
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Mum hardly wore perfume because it was expensive, and adults typically reserved it for special occasions when they went somewhere posh. Given that she rarely used it, I felt safe ‘borrowing’ it.
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The Great Perfume Heist: A Childhood Adventure
After mixing Mum’s perfume into the bowl with our discoloured liquid from the petals, the final concoction smelled lovely. I convinced myself I might have been on the path to becoming a millionaire!
Eventually, my mother noticed that her expensive bottle of YSL had gone missing. As for me, I discovered I was quite a swift runner as a child!
From that day on, I was banned from going near my mother’s bedroom cabinets, and the neighbours kept a watchful eye on their garden and beautiful flowers whenever I had friends over to play.
Nurturing Creativity: The Joy of Perfume-Making for Children
Making perfume allows children to express their creativity and individuality. They can experiment with different scents and combinations to create unique fragrances that reflect their preferences and imagination.
Perfume-making engages children by stimulating their sense of smell and enabling them to explore various aromas, essential oils, and other ingredients. This hands-on activity helps them discover new scents and their properties.
Children often enjoy imitating adults or fictional characters they admire. Perfume-making provides an opportunity for role-playing, allowing them to mimic the actions of perfumers or their favourite characters from books, movies, or TV shows. Influences are apparent from an early age.
Perfume-making involves basic chemistry principles, such as mixing substances to create new compounds or reactions. Children may find it fascinating to observe how different ingredients interact and how various combinations result in distinct smells.
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Perfumes Today
We no longer need to pick flowers from the neighbours to create our fragrances. FM World offers a vast selection of perfumes crafted by some of the finest perfumers, so beautiful scents are now readily available at affordable prices.
While some of me miss the days of crafting my concoctions as a child, I’ve realised that becoming a millionaire from perfume-making was a long shot. Instead, I channelled my creativity into a different field and became a hairdresser.
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