After years of dabbling with homemade perfume creation using the very limited resources at my disposal (culinary herbs, spices and teas, and whatever solvents and carrier oils I could find in the pantry) I finally took a perfume making class last week. Now the company that ran the class is going to put together a kit of raw materials tailored to my budget and preferences so I can continue exploring perfume making in my own time, how cool is that!
My goal is to familiarise myself with the smell of different ingredients so I can better identify what I like and dislike in fragrances, and learn how to create my own unique fragrances that reflect ideas in my imagination or complex scent memories from my past. This is just for my own enjoyment - I don't have any aspirations to start a business, but it would be amazing if it happened.
Has anyone else here gotten into perfume making? If you have, what did you learn and what do you wish you'd known when you started out?