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Making Perfume for Candles and Room Diffusers (online)
January 18 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
$165.00
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Perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler leads a two-part online course exploring formulating perfume for popular applications beyond fine fragrance, with a focus on candles and lava rocks.
Class 1: Making Perfume for Candles
Thursday, January 18, 2024 online
Perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler explores the technicalities of composing fragrance for candles in an accessible format for beginners and advanced students.
Attendees will learn the basics of composition techniques and process strategies, with the necessary technical and creative information to apply their scent-making practice to the specific application of candles.
This online session will cover an introduction to aromatic materials for candles, a review of fragrance oil design and formulation, evaluating candle scent, and common issues in candle-making. There will be time reserved for Q&A and troubleshooting.
Takeaways:
- Introduction to fragrance oil formulation
- Overview of scented candle evaluation
- Technical knowledge about fragrance oil design for candles
This class presents an introduction to formulating for candles, and does not cover pouring techniques.
Class 2: Making Perfume for Room Diffusers
Thursday, January 25, 2024 online
Consider the humble igneous rock known as Scoria. You’ve seen it around, right? It’s often found in sometimes elegant, always decorative aromatic objects. You may know it as a lava rock. It’s the latest thing in room diffusers, and it’s honestly a lot less complicated than candles.
Ashley explores the technicalities of composing for environmental applications – with a focus on lava rocks – in an accessible format for beginners and advanced students.
Attendees will explore the composition techniques and specific application needs for environmental scenting, with the necessary technical and creative information to apply their perfumery practice to a new application.
Attendees will also receive a brief overview of scenting for reeds, room sprays, and… briefly… candles.
Topics covered:
+ Introduction to scenting with room diffusers
+ Overview of scenting for reeds, room sprays, and candles
+ Introduction to composition techniques for scented room diffusers
+ Introduction to application neeeds for environmental scenting
Take-aways:
Participants will leave with a more technical understanding of making perfume for environmental applications.
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This is an online class. The Zoom link will be sent by email 24 hours to all registrants before each class session. We will share the video for this class with all registered participants for 7 days after it takes place.
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