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NATURAL PERFUMERY COURSE
First day - Initiation to natural perfumery
If you wish to become an independent natural perfumer this course will provide you with the basis you need.
If you only wish to understand and explore the realm of scents and fragrances, in this course you will discover the natural essences of perfumery and how easy it is to make good perfumes with them. A perfume is only so good as its ingredients are.
The first part of the course, the whole morning, is dedicated to discovering smells and their meaning, to the ethics and philosophy of natural perfumery. I shall teach you a 5 points auto didactical system of olfactory education that will enable you to thread the “Way of Perfume” after the course, by your own means .
The last part of the morning is dedicated to the animal scents, you will discover their story and meaning, see and smell them, and understand what are pheromones and why they belong to perfumery.
The second part of the course takes the afternoon. You will discover the instruments of a perfumer and learn how to use them by practicing: every student will make a bespoke perfume for an other. Each of you will compose a perfume and have one composed for himself.
If you never did it before, you will be amazed to see how easy it is to make good perfumes. It is no more difficult than cooking.
The course is held by AbdesSalam Attar, composer perfumer, owner of "La Via del Profumo" and author of the texts on natural perfumery published in this site.
Cost of the course € 270,00
PROGRAM
MORNING, THE THEORY AND THE RAW MATERIALS:
1 - The basics
- the essences of natural perfumery
- Philosophy of the perfume
- Custom perfumery
- olfactory psychology explained with smells
- Aromatherapy, psycho aromatherapy and perfume therapy
2 - Knowing the raw materials
- Quality
- Scent classification
3 - The Way of perfume how to acquire the brain of a perfumer
- The 5 points of the Way of Scent
4 – Animal scents and pheromones
- From A of Ambergris to Z of Zibetto (civet) smelling and touching the animal raw materials
- their tinctures
- pheromones
- three dimensional perfumery
- fixatives
5 - Bibliography and contacts
PAUSE FOR LUNCH
AFTERNOON, PRACTICING
6 - Composing a perfume
- The instruments
- How to make a custom perfume
- Making it for a fellow student
- Naming a perfume
- Botteling your fragrance
7 - Didactical material (by email)
- Ebook "The art of perfumery" written in 1857 by Septimus Piesse. This book instructs in the fabrication of natural perfumes, soaps, cosmetics, incenses, tooth powders ecc...
It contains also numerous receipts and formulas of antique perfumes.
- Reference material of the course
- catalogue of the essences. This catalogue is reserved to the students of the perfumer and allow them to supply with the very raw materials that he himself uses for composing his fragrances. These products are NOT for sale to the public and cannot found on our sites.
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