Question: Where can I check about the perfumery school (online)? I want to learn it, but of course just what I put on my wishing list, I know it's hard to do it with the big cost of learning period to study about perfumery job , but I want to know it, can anyone tell me about some infos? Thanks a big lot! Well even though I am from HK!!!!

Answer: Perfumery online? you could possibly learn a few things, but you will still need an instructor on your side to guide you.\n\nI did try my hands on mixing fragrance during high school days, what you need to learn is basic chemistry, how to mix oil, water and alcohol, how to handle these stuff, as a carelessness may result into ugly scenario.\n\nThen learn what are the difference between eau de parfum ,eau de cologne, and eau de toilete. The difference is the alcohol content. Parfum have less alcohol and have a more concentrated fragrance. Eau de toilete is kinda like aftershave lotion, more alcohol.\n\nThe water used is not tap water nor mineral water, its distilled water, to keep it in pure state.\n\nOil fragrance, you can buy these in small sample quantity from your chemical shop.\n\nNext thing you learn is to mix this, oil and water do not mix, but alcohol and oil yes, then use the water last.\n\nThe trickiest part is to learn about fragrance, which is why you will need someone on your side to teach you, as you learn by experience and not memorization.\n\nDifferent source have different aroma, there are from flower, animal oil like musk, there are fruits like green apple, there are also from other source like grass or sandalwood.\n\nThen you learn more about how one fragrance mix another fragrance result into what odor/aroma, you learn by trying.\n\nKeep a clean nose, avoid sniffing too much of the perfum so as to keep your nose free and unbias from all odor/aroma.\n\nOnce you learn this basic, you start experimenting, collect some books.
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