Olfactory Diary: Let's study five new ingredients | EPI 016 All Paths Lead to Aroma Podcast
The podcast 'Todos os caminhos vão dar ao aroma' (All paths lead to aroma) is a podcast sponsored by Jarilo. In this podcast, Mariana, the founder of Jarilo, explores the world of perfumery and tries to discover how perfume is made.
This article is the transcript of EPI 016. Olfactory diary: Let's study five new ingredients
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↳In today's episode, I will repeat the structure of episodes 3 and 9 and will study 5 more ingredients with you.
↳In episode 3, we studied 5 ingredients: vanilla from the amber family, ylang ylang, rose absolute, and orange blossom essential oil from the floral family, and lavandin essential oil from the aromatic family.
↳In episode 9, we studied another 5 ingredients: Orange Oil from the citrus family; Cedarwood Oil from the woody family; Cis-3-Hexenol from the green family; Pink Peppercorn Oil from the spice family, and Galaxolide from the musk family.
↳As usual, I will smell each ingredient, describe the smell, note everything in my olfactory diary, and compare the notes from previous studies.
↳In this episode, we will get to know petitgrain, bergamot, eugenol, hedione, and ambroxan better, from the citrus, spice, floral, and amber families, four of the main families in perfumery.
↳The first ingredient I'm going to smell is EO Petitgrain from the citrus family, a top note, diluted to 1%;
↳Petitgrain has a green smell, it smells earthy, a minty smell, despite being fresh it is also warm and enveloping, it smells like leaves.
↳The second ingredient I'm going to smell is EO Bergamot, also from the citrus family, a top note, diluted to 10%;
↳Bergamot has a citrusy, fresh, clear, transparent smell, a smell that expands.
↳Bergamot is widely used to improve the projection of perfumes.
↳Although bergamot and petitgrain belong to the same olfactory family, their smells are completely different and very easy to distinguish from each other.
↳The third ingredient I'm going to smell is Eugenol from the spice family, a heart note, diluted to 1%;
↳Eugenol has a very warm, dense smell, it smells of spices, reminiscent of certain teas and some Christmas foods, it smells of cloves, eugenol is a molecule present in cloves. It has a smoky smell, almost like a match.
↳The fourth ingredient I'm going to smell is Hedione from the floral family, a heart note, diluted to 20%;
↳Hedione has a slightly citrusy smell, somewhat reminiscent of lemon, fresh and light, transparent and clear, and has a very delicate floral touch.
↳Hedione is a very, very widely used ingredient in contemporary perfumery.
↳The fifth ingredient I'm going to smell is Ambroxan from the amber family, a base note, diluted to 1%;
↳Ambroxan smells of books, it smells of beach sand, it's a mineral, very comfortable smell, a smell that embraces us.
↳Rereading the notes from my previous studies, I see that I hadn't yet associated this ingredient with the smell of books, I will add it to the ambroxan sheet.
↳In the next episode, we will talk about perfumes for the home.
↳Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast "Todos os caminhos vão dar ao aroma". If you enjoyed it, don't forget to subscribe, share with friends, leave a comment or send an email to todososcaminhosvaodaraoaroma@gmail.com.
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See you next time
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