Doubts about a prototype of perfume

look at the fragrance families we know, choose the ones you like and attempt to build a base from the most important elements that define their accords

that way you can move your experiment into chypre, oriental, etc whatever territory you wish

You won't have a "perfume" by any stretch of the imagination, but you might get a bit further in understanding how to construct a homogenous scent

I meant to reply to this before - sorry - I would encourage you to have a look at the primer thread here as I think it will help you get started.

For fixation you need proper fixatives - mainly base notes and many of them synthetic - look at musk in particular as you are looking for a sexy tone, muscone is particularly appropriate perhaps with a trace of synthetic civet as well (but only a trace).

I would also recommend using another floral alongside the yang-ylang, which is a great blender but a bit chemical-smelling on its own - the geranium is a good idea - perhaps a little rose absolute, if you can afford it, would enhance the blend.

Hi MeneleusBR76,

perhaps I'll be a little bit more clear with what I meant. Also, just to jump in and say its good practice to try and keep descriptions as objective as possible when communicating like this over the internet. Sexy could be easy enough to understand, but elitist is something we might struggle with on the other side as undoubtedly our cultural experiences are way different to eachothers - what might be elitist to you might smell "old grandma" to me, and might smell modern to Chris, and so on...

What I suggested earlier was basically completing the pyramid in your scent trial, right now as it stands you've got the top and middle to your pyramid (even though they are very simple!) but you haven't got a basenotes section. Now, largely this is where the fragrance family is defined, well.. not always but lets just keep things simple for now...

so, what you want to do in my opinion, before doing much modifying of the top and base is maybe figure out what kind of perfume do you want, do you want a clean musky base to go with your fruity floral top, do you want a chypre perfume, perhaps we can turn your 3 notes into a playfully sexy oriental ?

Knowing that you don't want "elitist" we can choose an oriental theme, again, just for an example. In this case, now that you've proportioned your top and middle to the level you like, you can take a seperate vessel and construct a very basic oriental base. Now you're not going to make Shalimar or anything here, but lets keep it simple.

Ethyl Vanillin (sweet, playful, vanilla)
Patchouli (sexy, hippy vibe)
Benzoin (ambery slightly powdery, sweet)
Tolu Balsam (resinous, dark, rich)
Ambroxan
Tonalide (this is a particularly non "elitist" musk if I had to choose, its playful, youthful and sexy)

Mix those until you have got one homogenous base smell, easy on the ethyl vanillin and the patchouli, id suggest less tolu more benzoin, but otherwise go wild. Mix them separately in another small bottle! and only stop once you are satisfied with the result even if it takes a few days of adjusting

then..

drop by drop add it back to the original until you've got a good "weighting" of the base into your 3 note project

now seeing that this is an oriental, you might want to add some spices after, but do this only after you've put in the base.

eugenol + cassia EO maybe or cinnamic alcohol whatever you've got on hand

at this point you should see more of a "perfume" developing

basically, a fixative is more psychological than it is scientific, you need something for your perfume to evolve into at each step. Nothing is really going to stop those jasmine molecules from evaporating at they rate they do in nature - but - you will probably continue to perceive them longer if there is a base present, as they will "modify" the base so to speak, even when trace quantities remain on your arm.

Does this make sense ?