Don’t be afraid to experiment and create your own scent blends.
Candle and soap making supplies are always going up in price. We shop around trying to find the best price but
also the best quality along with that. So we sure don’t want to start experimenting mixing a ½ ounce of this with
a ½ ounce of that and find out it just wasn’t the smell you were after or it really smelled horrible. So we have
just wasted an ounce of expense fragrance oil.
Here is what you will need to start experimenting yourself and not waste money while doing it.
A glass jar with a lid
Q tips or Cotton buds the kind you clean your ears with
A book or journal
What I do is get a jar any glass jar with a lid on it. I use mason jars that I bought pretty cheap at a grocery
store that had marked them down to practically nothing.
Say you want to create Almond Joy fragrance. I know my chart gives you the combination to mix this but lets
pretend we didn’t know this.
You will take a Qtip and dip it into the chocolate fragrance oil, then put that Qtip and put it into the jar and put
the lid on to it. Leave the Q tip with the chocolate fragrance oil in there for about 15 minutes.
After the 15 minutes
is up open the jar up and smell, of course your smelling chocolate and that’s good. In your book or journal you
would make an entry such as Almond Joy. The mixture would be right now 1 part Chocolate.
Next you will take another
Q tip oh yes before I forget you can cut the Q tips in half as you will have two cotton buds then to use.
Take the other half of the Q tip and stick it into the coconut fragrance oil. Put that into the glass jar and put
the lid on it. You now have two Q tips in the jar one with chocolate fragrance and the other with coconut.
Leave that again for 20 minutes. After the time is up open the jar and smell. Now your smelling chocolate with
coconut again this is good. The mixture then would be 1 part chocolate and 1 part coconut.
Next take another qtip or cotton bud and dip that into the almond fragrance oil. Put that into the jar with the
lid on it. You now have 3 qtips or cotton buds in the jar. Wait about 30 minutes. Open the jar up.
Your smelling chocolate and almond the coconut is there but not as strong as you want it to be. The chocolate and almond
is what your smelling the most of right now. Ok now you mark in the book or journal 1 part chocolate 1 part coconut
and 1 part almond.
Now you want to add coconut because it just isn’t quite right yet. The smell your after
is not there just yet.
Now take another Q tip or cotton bud and dip that into the coconut fragrance oil and put that into the jar and put the
lid on it. You now have 1 chocolate cotton bud, 2 coconut cotton buds, and 1 almond cotton bud into the jar. Wait
again about 30 minutes. Open the jar up and smell. Ahh this is it, you created Almond Joy you are smelling just
the right combination of scents. So your entry in your journal or book would read
Almond Joy 1 part chocolate
2 parts coconut and 1 part almond
You will need to do some calculations as far as making a batch of this scent into your soap or candle wax. I am
a candlemaker so normally one pound of wax I would use 1 ounce of fragrance oil. That is approx. 2 Tablespoons of Fragrance
oil. Which I would figure out would be ½ tablespoon of chocolate fragrance oil, ½ tablespoon of almond fragrance
oil and 1 tablespoon of coconut. Of course as we all know some oils are heavier than others and to get a true weight
it is best to weigh on a scale that measures ounces but this is just to show you how you would calculate how much to put into
your batch of soap or wax.
So you can see you can experiment and create your own mix of scents. If you wanted Lavender orange soap of course
you would start out first with the lavender then add the orange to your jar and may find the lavender is still to strong.
You want to smell the hint of orange under the lavender so then add another orange to the jar. Let sit and check the smell
and you might say that’s great that is the smell I was looking. In your book or journal you would enter 1 part lavender
and 2 parts orange. Just make sure you write everything down so you will know exactly what works and how much to use
of each scent to create your own unique scents.
Happy candle and soap making fellow crafter’s
