Do you know how to make a DIY perfume with essential oils and natural fragrances?
This DIY perfume recipe is quite easy and you’ll love it with its powdery and vintage scent.
Powdery perfumes are absolutely my favorites with their sweet and powdery notes. They remind me the old-fashioned talcum powder that my grandmother used to store in a beautiful box when I was a child. It was smelling great! Well, now we know that talcum powder is toxic and we should avoid it… but we can still reproduce the smell of those products with natural ingredients.
I named this DIY perfume spray "Romantic Cloud" because it will shroud you in a fragrant, romantic and very feminine cloud with its notes of violet, iris and palmarosa. The latter one will give more sparkle and personality to the final result. You might want to add ylangg-ylang as well.
I also added Baby Doll natural cosmetic fragrance from Aroma Zone to intensify the talc notes.
It contains iris powder and glycerin to fix the fragrance. The iris powder will also help to enhance the powdery scent. You can omit it, but I suggest you to buy it if you are planning to make natural DIY perfumes.
DIY powdery perfume ingredients
- 1 g of iris root powder
- 25 drops of Violet natural cosmetic fragrance (I love this one)
- 5 drops of palmarosa essential oil
- 15 drops of Baby Doll natural cosmetic fragrance
- 1 g of glycerin
- Alcohol q.s. to fill a 10 ml bottle
How to make a diy perfume
- Place the iris powder in a 10 ml bottle.
- Add the two cosmetic fragrances (Violette and Baby Doll) and palmarosa essential oil.
- Pour in 1 g of glycerin and fill the 10 ml bottle with alcohol.
- Shake it all up and let it sit for at least 2 weeks, shaking occasionally. This way, the perfume will mature and the iris powder will do its job.
- If you want to use a spray container, strain the perfume by removing the iris powder before using it. If you do not do this, the powder will clog the spray tube. If you prefer to use a NON-spray container, there is no need to remove the iris powder. Keep in mind, however, that it will never dissolve completely.