{"id":3531,"date":"2021-10-05T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T21:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestperfumes.reviews\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2024-02-21T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:01:11","slug":"make-perfume-from-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestperfumes.reviews\/make-perfume-from-flowers","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Perfume from Flowers: A Step By Step Guide 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
One thing many people never realised is that they can make the perfumes they will be using. They know about the Do It Yourself (DIY) ideology and, of course, have been doing a lot of things at home by themselves. But, they never envisaged they could make their own perfumes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, today, you are going to find out how to make perfumes with the things you have in your house and what grows in your environment. Specifically, you are going to find out how to use those beautiful flowers in your garden to make a beautiful perfume that will keep you happy all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Making perfumes from flowers has been in practice for a very long time now. It is a practice that is traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, in the 4th century BC, where perfumers used flowers, oils, and calamus (a type of flowering plant) to make perfumes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, many people make their perfumes by themselves, using flowers and other materials they can get from their homes. This tradition will not end because more people are learning the art and science of homemade perfumery and I know you will join the long list too. This tradition must be kept alive and passed on to the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are a lot of people that don\u2019t use perfumes because the materials used in making them are synthetic. It\u2019s not everyone that can use things prepared in a laboratory on his skin. People like these usually opt for homemade natural perfumes, especially the ones made with flowers and natural oils. But in this guide, you will discover how to turn your garden into the producer of the raw materials you will be using for your home perfumery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This guide is going to be easy for everyone that wants to learn natural perfume making. It will first list the most preferred flowers for homemade natural perfumes. After that, it will reveal different methods of making those perfumes. Note that all the things that will be suggested here for perfume making are natural and can be obtained from the kitchen and the garden. You don\u2019t have to spend money to make this perfume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us deviate a little bit and look at how flowers come into existence, their duties to nature, and why some of them smell so great. You need to know this part so you can bear it in mind when you pick the flowers you will use for the perfume-making project from your garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flowers are not just there to beautify the world or to make the atmosphere smell good. Flowers house the reproductive systems of plants. If you look into a flower, you will find these tiny rounded \u2018grains\u2019 shooting out of a thin \u2018stem\u2019 that is attached to a \u2018bud\u2019. Now, those tiny grains are the pollen grains, which bear the male reproductive cells of the plant (amazing, isn\u2019t it?). Inside that part of the flower that looks like a bud is what is known as the ovule (the \u2018bud\u2019 is known as the ovary). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If a pollen grain finds its way into a stigma (the funnel-like tip of the style) of any flower of its kind, it will pass through the style (the \u2018stem\u2019 inside the flower) and fertilise the ovule (just the way a spermatozoon fertilises an ovum). When this happens successfully, the fruit will be formed. And when fruits are formed, we don\u2019t only have foods to eat, but also have seeds that will bring forth more plants. So, be mindful of how you take those flowers. Ensure that you pick only what you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How flowers are formed and why they have formed remain mysteries we don\u2019t want to unravel for now. Even though we know some of the functions of flowers, we don\u2019t know what happens that makes plants start forming them. All we know is that trees get this signal to stop making their usual leaves so they can make flowers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once this signal comes, all the trees of that kind (at least the ones in an area) will stop making new leaves and start producing flower buds. Another amazing thing here is that new leaves will never be produced until those flowers are done giving the world its freshness, sweet scents, beautiful sights, and fruits that will keep the world evergreen and nourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, over to why flowers smell good. Well, that\u2019s another mystery we don\u2019t need to break here. But, have you noticed it\u2019s not all flowers that smell? Among those that have scents, some do smell awful. Who told the flowers to smell in a particular way is left for the scientists to unravel because our concern here isn\u2019t that. Nevertheless, if you closely observe those scented flowers (even the ones with unpleasant scents), you will notice they have sticky pollen grains and broad brightly coloured leaves. Their nectars are tasty too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All these features are ways the flowers attract their pollinators, such as butterflies, bees, flies, and humans (including you). So, don\u2019t feel guilty when you see such flowers and feel the urge to pick them. It\u2019s your natural response to nature. However, be careful so don\u2019t destroy a lot of them as you prepare your homemade perfume. A little at a time is ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n