How to Make Perfumes and Cosmetics: A Guide to Making Your Own Perfume and Make up - Organic Scents, Aromatic Oils, Fragrant Balsams, Skin Powders and More

I enjoyed reading this small but packed book. It's heavier on perfumer's history than on someone else's "nose" or (their recipes). I prefer to blend oils to suit my own tastes as well as learning others' tastes and then see if I can "deliver" a well-made perfume for each person's OWN preferences! Its fun as well as educational.

I thought it was a bit odd that the start of this book had quoted a source without mention of where from. And then that this entire book of historical and scientific information was done without citations. A quick search revealed that this ENTIRE BOOK is word for word a copy from William Brannt and Carl Deite’s A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery from 1892 (which is also available on Amazon) . There is zero mention of this text, shame on the “author” of this book.

This book sucks. No real recipes. Just be info. No visuals for finishes product. Dont buy.