I'm that person. I have a polished and perfected picture of what I want in my head, and then I transform it into reality ... sort of. I suck at building bookshelves, for instance. My cooking isn't always on point. The other day, when I made muffins with coconut sugar and goji berries, they tasted awful. I try a lot, but I also fail quite a lot.
My newest project: solid perfume DIY.
I found a recipe online that seemed soooo simple. Beeswax, a random carrier oil (sweet almond, for example) and an essential oil of my own choice. Sounds simple, right? Yeah ...
So the one scent that I'm OBSESSED with is lilacs. I love lilacs. I LIVE for lilacs. I want to smell like lilacs, and nothing else will do. The thing is, there is no lilac essential oil. Maybe it simply can't be extracted, or the oil is too expensive to extract. Either way, only lilac perfume oil (which is a fancy word for snythetic oil, really) is available for sale.
Me, being sort-of organic and mostly just allergic to lots of stuff, figured I had to go a different route to get my lilac scent. So I had this brilliant idea of getting some real life lilacs and just extracting the oil myself (or just infusing a carrier oil with the scent).
Again, I found EXTREMELY simple instructions online. You only had to let the flowers sit for a day or so, then stuff them into a dark bottle together with an oil of your choice. Since I'm broke, I chose sunflower oil ....
... aaaand stuffed everything into a used bottle of Jägermeister which someone brought to my birthday party. Before you judge me, I did pour some boiling water down that bottle to get rid of any residue alcohol. As per the instructions, I let the bottle sit in the sun for a week and then poured out the oil.
This is what the flowers ended up looking like after a week. They looked like dead flies to me and smelled worse. Ew!
Getting the blossoms to leave the bottle was also a pain. I had to do some extreme shaking.
This is the oil after a week. Looks okay, right? Yeah, but the idea of putting that awful scent on my skin grossed me out, so I threw it away.
I have no idea what went wrong (I dried the blossoms and I also shook the bottle all the time to prevent mold) but maybe the Jägermeister bottle was just a bad call and that's that.
I ended up buying the synthetic oil, BTW. I feel really embarassed about this, but come on. I can't be the only one with some failed DIY projects up their sleeves.
Do you have any tips for my future perfumery?
Blessings and balance ~
Peachess
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