Five-Day Natural Perfume Intensive

"Pyramid of Olfactory Pleasure"

October 17-21, 2011
9:30 am - 5 pm each day
30 hours of training

Pre-requisite: This course would best suit someone with a firm foundation in Natural Perfumery. You should have a good grasp of the basics of perfume creation: how to formulate, create accords, and tinctures; note classification; perfumery terms; methods of extraction; shelf-life and storage; scent profiling; working in a safe atelier; where to purchase supplies; and so on.


Join us for a week of fun during this hands-on experiential event as we create five perfumes and gather a wealth of knowledge for you to take home.

This course expands on some of the concepts presented in the Coeur d'Esprit Natural Perfume Course, "A Path to the Heart of Spirit", I'm currently teaching through correspondence, as well as offers several new topics to explore and a new base of information from which to create.


Each day we will begin the creation of one perfume from five fragrance families (it will need to mature under your nurture for several months before you can use it): Chypre, Citrus, Fougere, Floral, and Oriental.

We will create deviations into compositions featuring Woodsy, Herbaceous, Leathery, Soliflore, and Gourmand/Fruity.


We will be working solely with Perfumers’ Alcohol making Pure Perfume Extraits only.

Some of our topics, lectures, and experiments include:
o Creating various kinds of alcohol for specific Perfume Families
o Exotic Accords from my personal work – leather, hyacinth, stargazer lily, violet, oceanic, amber, lily of the valley, and others
o Working with the Natural Perfume Pyramid
o Advanced sniffing and evaluation techniques
o How to do a Perfume Consultation
o Sharing and smelling Natural Isolates


You will also have the opportunity to experience some of the rarest perfume components in use today. ie: Hyacinth, Narcissus, Ambergris, and Ambrette Seed and many others; all in 20% dilution ready to smell.

Workshop includes all products used in class, supplies, a detailed manual, and a Certificate of Completion during the Graduation Ceremony & Celebration on Friday evening after our cold buffet meal (spouses and significant others are welcome).


Due to the size of my teaching room, this event is open to the first eight people who Register and make their deposit. Since this is the case, I sweetly ask you to please be fair to others by ensuring it is your full intention to come and taking the appropriate action steps to accomplish that task. Thank you.

Registation Form for Five Day Perfume Intensive.doc


Financial Investment is: $975.00 and the deposit is $300.00, $150.00 of which is non-refundable. Balance of $675.00 is due three weeks prior to workshop. Please pay your tuition through PayPal at http://www.scentofnature.net/five-day_natural_perfume_intensive.htm Thank you.

Email: LynAyre@telus.net for further infomation.

Happy Valentine's Day

These are the essential oils and absolutes presented in our Coeur d'Esprit Natural Perfume Course.

Base Notes: Ambrette Seed CO2, Frankincense, Labdanum (Ambriene 1), Patchouli, Sandalwood, Vanilla absolute, and Vetiver

Heart Notes: Cinnamon Leaf, Jasmine grandiflorum absolute, Lavender absolute, Litsea, Neroli, Rose Moroc, and Ylang Ylang extra

Head Notes: Bergamot fcf, Black Pepper, Clary Sage, Coriander, Galbanum, Palma Rosa, and Rosewood

Dozens of perfumes can be formulated from these 21 oils. I'm offering three in this post.

Valentine’s is fast approaching and it is time to celebrate the day of love with a new and natural perfume made right in your own kitchen.

They say the road to a man’s heart is through his stomach so is it any wonder that Vanilla tops the list of Romantic essential oils. A little dab’ll do ya… just behind the ear… and you’ll have him eating out of your hands.

The chart above shows the three main categories of Base, Heart, and Head notes in a perfume.
Base notes last quite a long time and anchor a perfume. Heart notes are generally floral or spicy and give body to the blend. Head notes tend to take flight quite quickly and represent the first burst of scent out of the bottle.

…Bottle – go to the attic, the thrift store, your grandma’s, and beg, borrow, or (well, I can’t tell you to steal, now can I?) something small and really pretty with a tight fitting stopper.

The local Aromatherapy store will have what you need as far as natural essential oils. Go when your sinuses are clear and bring some ground coffee beans in a baggie to sniff in between sniffing sessions. This will clear your nasal palate. Buy the smallest quantity you can. 2 to 5 ml works best. We are going to be doing this by the drop so ensure there is a dropper inserted into the bottle. You will also need a pipette and some scent strips (water colour paper will do).

Let’s make up a few formulas choosing from the oils above.

Is there anything better than the smell of roses? Yum. This perfume features Rose, in all her glory and is an equal blend of Base, Heart, and Head Notes. The end result is a perfume of 22% strength. We will mix this blend into 117 drops of Golden Jojoba Oil.

Rose In All Her Glory
6 drops of Sandalwood
2 drops of Frankincense
3 drops of Vanilla
6 drops of Rose (use your favourite)
2 drops of Ylang Ylang
3 drops of Lavender essential oil
6 drops of Black Pepper
2 drops of Clary Sage
3 drops of Palma Rosa

This perfume is smooth and romantic, with no sharp edges. For loving sensuality, this is the one to use. The vanilla makes this perfume go cloudy. It is something that I don’t concern myself about when I make it for personal use. In an alcohol base, it will be clear and pristine. To the perfumed oil, you could also add a teaspoon of beeswax pellets to make a solid perfume like the one pictured above. The aroma of this perfume lasts for at least 4-5 hours.

Our next perfume is quite spicy with an Oriental Base and some fruity citrus notes. Here we’ve created a perfume with approximately 50% for the Base Notes; 20 % for the Heart; and 30% for the Head Notes. There are 39 drops in this perfume so we want 111 drops of Golden Jojoba to make it up to a 7.5 ml bottle of perfume.

Spice My Life
8 drops of Labdanum (if you cannot find labdanum, you could use steam distilled Oakmoss or steam distilled Peru Balsam instead)
7 drops of Vanilla
4 drops of Frankincense
4 drops of Litsea
1 drops of Cinnamon Leaf
3 drops of Neroli
7 drops of Bergamot fcf
2 drops of Coriander
3 drops of Palma Rosa

This perfume is fun and flirty and full of the spice of life. Again, the labdanum and vanilla made it go cloudy but this can either be overlooked (as it does not affect the aroma), created in alcohol, or made into a solid by mixing your perfumed oil with a teaspoon of beeswax. This perfume lasts for several hours.

Next we’ll try our hand at a floral bouquet featuring Jasmine. This time, we’ll allow our intuition full reign and see what happens. Tune into your higher self and ask how many drops of each essential oil need to go into your perfume. Keep it within the bounds of reason, like the two perfumes above (in other words, don’t use 20 drops of something when making a small amount of perfume). Here are the ideas I received from my perfume divas when I connected to the Spirit of the Plants and respectfully asked for inspiration to create the following perfume.

Patchouli Posey
8 drops of Patchouli
4 drops of Vetiver
2 drops of Sandalwood
5 drops of Jasmine (whichever one you like; I used grandiflorum absolute)
3 drops of Rose (whichever one you like; I used moroc)
1 drops of Ylang Ylang
7 drops of Bergamot fcf
2 drops of Rosewood
2 drops of Black Pepper

There are 34 drops of essential oil in this perfume formula so we need 116 drops of Golden Jojoba Oil to create a 7.5 ml bottle of perfume. This perfume is very sexy, full of aphrodisiac scent molecules, and is sure to create an evening of inner stirrings and passion. This aroma lasts up to eight hours, depending on your skin type. As well, all these essential oils dissolve and the end result is clear and golden.

Alternative to Jojoba, you can use Fractionated Coconut oil, or a 190 proof alcohol, which is always my preference as it thoroughly dissolves all the essential oils so my perfumes turn out crystal clear. Have fun with this.

I hope you have enjoyed your foray into the world of Natural Perfumery. It is full of satisfaction and pride knowing that what you’re wearing, when you’re not wearing anything else (sly grin) is really good for you and your partner. Have a wonderful Valentine’s Day. I know Norm and I will enjoy ours.

Love Lyn

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Natural Perfumery Course

My first order of business is always: DO NO HARM, which is why I include the following statement and I make it up front.

When making natural perfumes, we are dealing with the wondrous, powerful, and generally medicinal plant essences. Please refrain from taking this course if you are: have major internal organ damage, have severe breathing or skin allergies or sensitivities, or your health is otherwise severely compromised.

Those who are pregnant or lactating and those who are waiting for their supplies to arrive, can complete and email the following paper projects for the correspondence course: 1 on Anosmia, 4 on another descriptor for rose oil, 6 on descriptive words or phrases, project 16 on tincture and infusions, project 19 Passion for Perfume, project 25 philosophies; half of the following: 3, 8, 12, 14, and 21 on accords. The reading, gathering of supplies, and preparation of a safe Atelier can also be accomplished while you are waiting to begin the course.

"Attention Professional Registered Aromatherapists"

Work from home to earn your Continuing Education Credits. Achieving a Certificate of Completion for this six-month correspondence course in Natural Perfumery may satisfy the requirements for the 24 CEC's that you need to maintain your professional membership.

Check with your association for more details."

Natural Perfumery Course
~a path to the Heart of Spirit~
Introduction to the art of Natural Perfumery.
We will be covering twenty-one oils/absolutes; various bases;
scent profiling; the language of natural perfumery; formulation;
accords; scent-similars; tinctures; macerations; and many other aspects.
Specific assignments are given for each of the six sections.
In order to attain a Certificate of Completion for this course, you will
need to do these twenty-six assignments and reports, sixteen perfume samples,
and the final proctored written exam, and practical exam. The exam can be taken six months after you begin your studies. This is an in-depth course and there is no need to rush.

Perfumery Course Goals & Objectives
At the end of this perfumery course, you will know how to make perfume in various bases. You’ll be given recipes for all of these bases, and some of my perfume formulations I've created for this course. You will know where to get top quality oils, absolutes, concretes, and attars. You will learn the vocabulary needed to describe the scents you are creating and sniffing.

You will learn how to create vertical and horizontal accords, preparing parts of future perfumes in advance of needing them. Learning about tincturing, infusing, and maceration will be included as part of the course, as well. Some plants do not yield up their scent so you will also learn how to make a doppelganger of the desired scent.

We will not spend much time on the history of perfume though several links are included in the resources section. It has been romanticized and theorized about in books, magazines, and on the internet, and you may read this material at your leisure. It is all very interesting, exciting, and wonderful to know where we’ve come from, as a population of people who have loved perfumes since the dawn of man. However, for my course, I am opting to leave that aspect of writing to those more deeply involved in it. I just love to make perfumes and I want to share that with you.
Creating a natural perfume today is quite different from how it was created a hundred years ago simply due to the myriad botanical ingredients that are now available to us. We live in a time that is ripe for the making of our own household, bath, and beauty products. We are very fortunate, indeed.

In this course, we will simply concern ourselves with the art of making perfume, the science and chemistry behind it will be included in the resource section. Again, there are many great books that one can study about the structure of essential oils, and botanical components. There is a reading list included in the courseware.

The book called: The Scent Trail provides a wonderful olfactory journey into the origins of some of the materials we will be using in this course. It is recommended reading, though there are no projects or exam questions arising from it. See my review for http://www.amazon.ca/ The Scent Trail Review

You will learn how to work with the energy of the substances you are holding: their colour, viscosity, tenacity, scent profile, and how they operate with one another. We will create a Scent Song as we look at the work of Piesse. There are several supporting .pdf files that I can email to you for further learning. We will create a perfume for use in spiritual rituals.

The profiles of the twenty-one oils and absolutes covered in this course are given in three parts: aromatically, therapeutically, and spiritually. This includes safety information, as it is key to a wonderful product. Here are the essential oils and absolutes we will be covering in the course so you can go ahead and begin to order them. It's easier on the budget when you don't have to do it all at once. As well, if you look at my links page, you will see many tried and trusted suppliers to get you started. Make sure none of these essences are diluted in jojoba as they won't mix with alcohol if they are. You want 100% not a 10 or 20 % dilution. Purchase small amounts (2-10 ml) to start. You will be making your own dilutions.

Base Notes: Ambrette Seed CO2, Frankincense, Labdanum (Ambriene 1), Patchouli, Sandalwood, Vanilla absolute, and Vetiver

Heart Notes: Cinnamon Leaf, Jasmine grandiflorum absolute, Lavender absolute, Litsea, Neroli, Rose Moroc, and Ylang Ylang extra

Head Notes: Bergamot fcf, Black Pepper, Clary Sage, Coriander, Galbanum, Palma Rosa, and Rosewood

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Registration and Investment
All students must complete a Registration Form, which I will send upon receipt of payment.

The Course: I am offering an in-depth, correspondence course on the basics of natural perfumery, so you can work at your own pace. The manual is well-written, professionally edited, with good photos, tables, and interesting assignments and experiments. I am also available on the phone, at no extra cost, for those students who are more auditory in their learning patterns. There is on-going email support, again at no further cost.

If you would like to order this informative and aromatic course, please email LynAyre@telus.net with any questions you may have. It can be ordered through the PayPal on my website at http://www.scentofnature.net/ There is always a lot of solid information in my courses. You will need to purchase supplies, essential oils, and absolutes, so when you email, request the Supplies/Suppliers List.

The Investment: Going green? Great. The entire manual comes to you via email and we can save a lot of trees by using this method. Just think, very shortly after ordering your course, it will be in your email. Unless we are away, this happens in less than 48 hours. All projects can be sent to me by email and so can the Exam. Investment: $350.00

The Exam: I don't offer the proctored exam until the six-month point as there are 26 projects and 16 samples to complete and send in. This doesn't happen overnight. There should be no rush to complete this course. The exam consists of 57 questions. There are no multiple choice so no option for guessing the right answer. You need to know your material before you write the exam. It takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete this exam and you will need a Proctor to be with you. There is a form they will need to fill out attesting to the fact that you did the exam from memory. When you request the exam, you will need to let me know where to mail it to your Proctor. You will then sit the exam at their home or office.

Return Policy
This is a correspondence course and as such may be started at any time convenient to you. I do not offer a refund once the course has been emailed out as, by that time, you have the full course material hence all that you need, and that I have put my heart into creating, to learn the art of perfumery.

Thank you.