How to Create My Own Body Spray Fragrance
Creating your own body spray fragrance is a budget-friendly way to match a scent to your personal chemistry. Each body contains its own pheromones that combine with fragrance pheromones, slightly altering a scent. Creating your own body spray fragrance lets you play with the mix. It may take some trial and error to create a customized scent, but it can be a simple process to undertake.
Things You'll Need
- Spray bottle
- Vodka
- Measuring cups
- Strawberry fragrance oil
- Rose fragrance oil
- Lemon fragrance oil
- Cedar fragrance oil
- Vanilla fragrance oil
- Distilled water
Instructions
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Wash and dry a plastic bottle with a spray nozzle. Check that the bottle has a light spray, or you may drench yourself with body mist.
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Add to the bottle 1/4 cup vodka, eight drops strawberry fragrance oil, five drops rose, four drops lemon, four drops cedar and two drops vanilla. Secure the cover on the bottle and shake well.
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Add 3/4 cup distilled water to the bottle, cap tightly and shake well.
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Spray a few drops of the body spray onto your wrist. Wait for the mist to dry and take a sniff. Note each scent in the combination to determine whether it needs altering. Add drops of fragrance directly to the spray if needed, shake to mix and test again.
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Shake well before each use. Store the body spray bottle away from direct sunlight and use as needed. The spray should remain good for four to five months.
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Tips & Warnings
Buy synthetic fragrance oils, not natural essential oils. Essential oils have fragrances limited to natural plant sources and do not offer as wide a variety of scents.
Use any unscented alcohol to dilute the oils in your body spray; however, you do need the alcohol to help distribute the fragrance oils. If you use only water, the oils will stay at the surface and there will be no scent in the spray.
Using a variety of fragrance oils, mix different batches of body spray. Test each one to decide which scent combinations you like.
Your body spray fragrance may alter slightly after a week. This is because the scent is slowly maturing and settling into the mixture. After the scent matures, it will remain the same for as long as it is good.
