Natural Perfumes have been used for centuries to:

Create Sacred Space

Surround Oneself in Beautiful Scents

Lure Lovers

Nuture Ambience of Mood 

Magical Invokating and Dispensing Rituals

Natural Perfumes are vials of condensed liquid of Nature's Flowers, Trees, Fruit and Spices.  Dilution is necessary to actually smell the detail of these beautiful oils and to ensure it is safe to be placed on the skin. MRF dilutes our perfumes at 20% to 26% in either pure ethanol or jojoba oil.  

South East Asia, the Middle East and India have long histories of using incense and perfumes for rituals and beauty.  Since it is common to own and enjoy many perfumes.  Indian women may wear more than one perfume together to create another perfume.  I love this idea and started thinking more about this!!!  I also started to try out different perfumes together.  Some are not great and others create a whole new wonderful scent on my skin.  I recomment we NEVER get too serious about our perfumes.  We should protect them from heat and light and cross-contamination of another scent.  That being said, have fun with different beautiful blends together and see what you find appealing.  A wonderful deep green scent may be absolutely delightful with a higher note of an exotic tropical flower or the sweet/tart scent of Blood Orange.

I then had inspiration to create accords of Base Notes, Middle Notes and High Notes so that, with a few notes in your stash, anyone could embark on an adhoc blending adventure.  

Stay tuned; I will post more in "Sequel 2" of "Building Natural Blends"

Comments???  Questions???  Send me your thoughts!!

Have Fun out there,

Donna with MRF