VIDEO: Make rose perfume yourself

Only experienced perfumers know how to compose individual fragrance components to create a harmonious rose perfume. Since in most cases you will be missing these (expensive) ingredients or a large supply of roses, it will be easier to create a light rose fragrance. The two versions presented are suitable for both room fragrancing or fragrance lamps as well as for (summer) clothing.

Make rose perfume as a scent from rose petals

• For this light rose perfume you make a so-called alcoholic extract from rose petals yourself. Buy pure alcohol (ethanol) at a strength of 60% (or more) at the pharmacy. 100 ml are sufficient.
• Now pick some scented roses in the garden - if possible in the morning. Choose flowers that have already wilted or are slightly wilted. are at the height of their prime. Then the roses collected many fragrances.
• Strip the rose petals from the flowers and tear apart individual leaves, do not cut them. Place these rose snippets in the alcohol and seal the extract.
• Put the rose mixture in the dark for at least two weeks and shake it every now and then. During this time, the alcohol dissolves the essential scented oils from the rose petals.
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• Then fill the extract into a perfume bottle or a spray bottle. You can squeeze out the remaining rose petals a little and thus gain even more fragrance oil.
• A light rose perfume is created when you fill up this alcoholic extract with an eau de cologne (as neutral as possible).
• The self-made rose perfume is of course suitable for scenting rooms and also for scenting clothes and laundry. It is less suitable for an aroma lamp because it evaporates quickly.

Make rose fragrances yourself from rose water - oily variant

• You can make an oily variant yourself with rose water, which is suitable as a rose fragrance or rose perfume for a fragrance lamp. The advantage of this method is, of course, that you do not need fresh rose petals for it.
• Buy real rose water from the pharmacy (which, by the way, can also be used for baking and cooking). Here, too, a small amount is sufficient, maybe 50 ml, depending on the application.
• Now mix the rose water in equal proportions with a light body oil. Shake the mixture well.
• You can use this oily rose perfume variant for a fragrance lamp.

Only buy high quality products for the rose perfume. Do not use artificially produced rose oils (artificial aroma oils) for scenting clothes or for spraying on the body (Risk of allergy!). In principle, all rose waters or all alcohols are suitable, which you can eat or eat safely. could use for cooking and baking.