How can I become a perfumer?

A good perfume needs you to spend your whole life to experience the art and science created by its fragrance. The possibilities are endless and new inventions emerge one after another. To understand the taste of perfume, we need to know how its single fragrance and mixed fragrance are made. Making perfume is an art; Like other arts, the artistic achievement of perfume has experienced several subjective and emotional levels. When all kinds of flavors are mixed together, magical things happen. Various raw materials interact, some of which have no or only slight odor, but they often act as catalysts for other raw materials, thus changing the original characteristics. You can't guess the taste of all the ingredients when you smell only one ingredient of a perfume. This is a mysterious and strange part of perfume.

Aroma blending is the abbreviation of aroma blending, which refers to the technology and art of blending essence. According to the proposed fragrance type and aroma, the selected essence is modulated into a harmonious, romantic and fantastic essence by using the fragrance blending method. A perfumer should have rich knowledge of spices and flavors, sensitive sense of smell, good artistic accomplishment, rich imagination and solid theoretical basis and synthesis technology of flavor blending.

Flavor blending needs to go through three stages: formula test, sample test, large sample blending and seasoning test.

Formation process: sample fitting-> Adding perfuming medium according to the method->; Enlarge the sample.

Formation stage: prescription test-> Sample test->; Sample preparation and perfuming experiment.

Uses: head fragrance, body fragrance and bottom fragrance->; Aroma through the role of fixative->; According to industrial production, the actual effect of essence was tested to meet people's use requirements. The head fragrance, body fragrance and base fragrance should be coherent, and the fragrance should be harmonious, elegant and dispersed. Through the action of fixative, the original aroma types and characteristics can be maintained for a long time.

manufacturing process

Now, most professional perfumers have studied the art of perfume making in professional colleges. For example, the famous Givaudan-Roure perfume school in Glass, France. There are a series of courses, including field experiments and internships in enterprises for a period of time, which takes 6 years.

Making new perfume is the highest art of perfumers, but they have more practical responsibilities. For example, after a certain raw material is used up, it is re-blended with substitutes to maintain the long-term sales potential of perfume. The perfumer must also mix the new ingredients with the original ingredients to avoid being threatened by the reduction of plant production and the lack of raw materials.

The whole perfume industry is cautious about fragrant oil with strong smell. The ingredients of perfume must meet the international standards of environmental protection and health. Many raw materials, including some compounds, can only be used under chemical restrictions. Some people have to use other substitutes because there are signs of toxicity in those raw materials. Many perfumers are engaged in this kind of work, or give professional advice to perfumers in soaps, baths and air fresheners. These tasks are often more arduous than preparing "Diorissimos" and "L'air".

The new perfume Du Like's task is much busier.

In the international market, launching a new perfume is a difficult business activity, which generally requires careful market research and strong financial support. Therefore, perfumers must consider the types and prices of perfumes at the beginning of developing new perfumes. Of course, it is also possible that the type and price of perfume have been decided before the perfumer gets involved in this matter. The sales price, as well as advertising and marketing expenses, must be determined. The image representing the perfume type must be unanimously recognized, and the most important thing is to design a suitable bottle. Surprisingly, the activation of the whole plan often starts with the name of perfume.

At present, almost all perfumers work for one or two large perfume manufacturers, except those companies that have their own manufacturing and sales networks, such as Nicolai and Isabell. Only a few super perfume companies, such as Guerlain, Chanel and Albert Batteux, have their own perfumers, and they generally do not change their affiliation. Of course, there are exceptions, such as Guy Torbert and GucciNo. 1, who modulated Mrs. Rocca.

With the requirements of perfume becoming more and more clear, sometimes more than one manufacturer starts processing, such as providing samples, discussing the change plan, and finally finalizing and selecting a perfumer to be responsible for the preparation work, and so on.