Advice from a 300 years old perfume house to young perfumists

Posted by Ali Attar on September 24, 2018
Advice from a 300 years old perfume house to young perfumists - theperfumist

Timeless Principles for Perfumists From a 300 Year Old House

Pieces of Advice for young perfumists and natural perfume makers from a 300-year-old perfume house that made some of the best and rarest distillation in history:

  1. Understand the elements (water, fire, air. And earth)
  2. Understand that every oil and natural material is a unique being and it will vary from a place to a place even though it may be the same species or kind
  3. Always try to make a little that is great rather than making a lot that is good.
  4. Pay attention to your tools, pods. And pipes they are the organs of the perfume and the body of your work
  5. Don't harm your nose with chemicals, no natural oil can harm your olfactory sense but any synthetic oil can
  6. Make your work unique don't try to clone or imitate others perfumery is all about uniqueness and being genuine
  7. Pay attention to the angles and direction of the joint and pipes specifically your dropper and distillation pipes
  8. Love your oils if you don't love them don't sell them you are judged by your lowest and weakest oil not your best
  9. Enjoy life experience the smell of everything around you and try to understand the meaning behind the smell.
  10. Don't be afraid or intimidated to try new things and bold ideas.

Hard Truths for perfumists From 300 Years of Mastery and Distillation

Lessons from the accumulated knowledge and experience of a 300 year of making, mixing, and distilling over ten thousand oil

  1. Wear what you like not what people like you to wear, be confident about your choice.
  2. Take your oils and perfumes personally you are what you wear or what you make
  3. There is no excuse for not smelling unique and special not only good
  4. There is no gender in perfumes it's a fallacy that big corporations made to make it easier to market, sell, and segment their clients
  5. Never mix synthetic oils with natural oils a 90% natural oil mixed with 10% synthetic is called synthetic oil and not natural because a natural oil is only 100% natural if it's not then it's synthetic
  6. Don't make the package and the bottle the most expensive thing about your work because your oils will be the cheapest.
  7. Real skills and good oils develop and get better in time if your skills are not getting better in time I doubt your oils are
  8. Don't compete with others don't say bad things about others let your oils speak for themselves don't speak on their behalf.
  9. Don't make your oils based on the market, gender, trends, or seasons make them based on quality, uniqueness, and smell
  10. Don't try to make fast profits or flip oils for money like brokers, that's what's all the companies that are closed and got forgotten tried to do.
- Ali Attar

www.theperfumist.com

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