Make Oil and Solid Perfume

Make Oil Perfume and Solid Perfume Balm

Oil and solid perfumes have some real advantages over alcohol based perfume.

Alcohol isn't your only choice of perfume format. You can also make oil perfume in roll-on bottles, and solid perfume balm in tins or tubs. These are actually much older than alcohol perfume, which only showed up in the late 1300's. Oil and solid perfumes were used by the ancient civilizations, including Egypt and Greece.

making oil perfume

Oil Perfume

Many people - including some prominent perfumers - believe that alcohol isn't the best medium for perfume. Oil perfumes seem to smell richer and more "true" than alcohol.

Oil perfume is also easier to apply; you just roll it on precisely where you want it to go.
In this photo, I am pouring musk into a roll-on bottle for Egyptian Musk oil perfume.

Solid Perfume Balm

Making oil perfume is simple, and I show you the easy steps with photos. Making solid perfume is a bit more involved, but it results in a great product!

You can use a variety of materials to form the base for your solid perfume: shea butter, beeswax, jojoba oil, and even petroleum jelly. If you can melt butter without setting off the fire alarm, you can make solid perfume.

melting the base for solid perfume
I rigged up a double boiler system in my living room for the photos - here I am melting the butters for the solid perfume.

Read my article on comparing alcohol, solid, and oil perfumes.

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