Making Homemade Perfume Books

You've spent countless hours painstakingly crafting your own line of fragrances. Now you're ready to market them, but how do you demonstrate the depth of your catalog without carting bottles around with you? This perfume book will serve as a portfolio you can easily show to perspective buyers. Consider it a scent resume. You could also use this if you have an exceptionally large collection of perfume for personal use, making it much easier to find the fragrance you want to wear and to manage your collection.

Things You'll Need

• 3-ring binder sheet protectors rubber cement ruler scissors or craft knife 8 1/2-by-11 inch card stock plus a scrap piece gauze squares 1-by-2 inch sealable lunch bags fragrance samples

Instructions

Making Homemade Perfume Books

1. Take the 8 1/2-by-11 inch piece of card stock and make sure it fits in your sheet protectors. Trim as necessary. Take the piece of card stock and measure a perfect 1-by-1 inch square. Cut this square out, keeping the sides of the paper intact. You will be using this as a stencil or template.

2. Take the envelopes and arrange them on one of your sheets of card stock. Place as many as you would like to fit on each sheet, taking in to account that you might like to leave room to write a description or place a name marker.

3. Use the template to paint a thick square of rubber cement where the envelope will attach to the paper. Use the same template to paint a square of rubber cement to the back of the envelope. Repeat this process for each envelope you will attach to your card stock. Allow the rubber cement to dry completely on both sides. This will create an adhesive that can be removed and reattached.

4. Take a square of gauze and saturate it with one of your fragrances. Put it into a resealable bag and seal it. Attach the bag to the card stock, matching the two squares of rubber cement. Label your fragrance beneath or on top of the bag. Repeat this for all your perfumes, creating as many pages as you need to.

5. Place each sheet into a sheet protector, and add it to your three-ring binder. Replace the gauze pads when the smell of your perfume wears off.

Tips & Warnings

• Try adding documents to the front of your book, like a copy of your resume, introduction, sales letter or price list. Substitute non-permanent double stick tape if you cannot find rubber cement.

Resources

• Marketing Your Own Perfume