Perfume Creation back to Student Projects Index Home to Taste of Smell Perfume Creation Shawn Taylor Perfume creation is a process best described as an art in which the creator attempts to accurately describe social motion and attitude.
Perfumery is still an art of mostly educated guesswork based on experience.
This is why perfumery is such a lucrative enterprise, namely, it is a way to create what should be out of someone who is not, or at least make them feel that they are a new creation. In the paper The Art of Perfumery, I have described many of the items which are taken into consideration when preparing a fragrance. At the base level, the perfumer must consider the relations within the actual fragrance, to include chemistry, balance, and depiction of reality. Beyond this level, he must consider the aspects of personality to make the fragrance appealing and marketable based on a first impression. This is done most effectively by combining the elements of predominant personality types and seasons to create the effect of a union of person and nature.