Create your own Personal Fragrance with Essential Oils – Egyptian Musk
Join me in creating your own personal fragrance with essential oils. If you love to diffuse essential oils, this is the next natural step.
When it comes to creating a personal fragrance with essential oils, I am not an expert, but I have a colleague who is and she gave me a recipe for Egyptian Musk. That’s a good place to start since our knowledge today is founded on what we learned from the Egyptian culture.
I have never created a perfume from essential oils before so feel free to join me.
Starting with something traditional seemed to be a good idea. You can’t get more traditional than Egyptian and Musk. I am going to have to learn the art of patience with perfume making as I will have to leave the blend for 21 days. Credit for the blend goes to a friend who is a specialist in perfume making.
The aromas preferences are personal to each individual, add to that the fact that the way a perfume fragrance reacts to a person’s chemistry is also unique. It took me a long time to find just three perfumes I could live with. That said, I am biting the bullet. I am starting with a recipe for Egyptian Musk.
All the oils are readily available online. If you have any trouble getting hold of anything visit or contact me directly. If you would like a set of these oils in 1ml vials, then let me know.
Equipment:
Dark Glass Bottle 30ml
1 x Sticky Label and Pen.
Rose (Centifolia) 4 Drops (Available on the website in 1ml vial)
Amber essential oil 4 Drops (May be difficult to find. If so let me know )
Myrrh essential oil 3 Drops
Patchouli essential oil – 4 Drops
Cedarwood essential oil – 3 Drops
Frankincense essential oil – 3 Drops
Vanilla Extract – 2 Drops (If the bottle says “Essential oil” it is synthetic do not buy/use. Find an extract)
Carrier Oil: Almond oil 30 ml Use another oil if you have a nut allergy
The Process
Step 1. Place the above quantities of the following oil in the glass bottle: Patchouli, Rose, Amber.
Place the top on the bottle and warm in your hands by rolling the bottle back and forth a few times.
Step 2: Add the above quantities of the following oils to the glass bottle: Frankincense, Myrrh, and Cedarwood.
Place the cap on the bottle and warm in your hands by rolling the bottle back and forth a few times.
Step 3: Now put the quantity of Vanilla into the bottle and repeat the warming process.
Step 4: Fill the bottle (to the shoulder) with the 30ml pure almond oil and replace the cap.
Step 5. Create your label. Containing the ingredients and date made up. Apply your label to the bottle and place it in a dark place for up to 21 days.
Use: Apply the oil blend directly to your skin as a fragrance.
Now that I have made it, what’s my immediate reaction. Well, it’s definitely musky, I obviously haven’t tested it on my skin yet to see how it will react with my personal chemistry. I do have one more task before I can use it though. What container shall I use? I have decided on a ‘rollerball’ bottle. Now to choose the colour. See the image below of what I have to choose from. What colour would you choose.? I think I will go with frosted white.
Taking it further
If you want to read a little bit more on making up perfume from essential oils, Here is a good link that will provide a little more information here Wikihow.
Let me know if you try this perfume recipe.
Where can I find amber oil?
Hello
Thank you for your enquiry. Since I bought mine from my perfumery friend, I did not realise how difficult it was to get hold of. I can obtain 5ml quantities for approx. £7.00. Let me know if you are interested and I shall put them on the site for sale.
why do you leave the blend for days. What is the explanation behind it?
Leaving the blend to sit for a while allows the different oil to have a greater synergistic effect on each other. Almost like wine.
I am now stocking a small supply. If you are still unable to find it.
I didn’t have Amber oil but found a recipe where you can make a substitute using 3 drops Patchouli oil and 1 drop Cypress, then after mixing, use the appropriate drops from that mixture ( so in this case 4 drops Amber Oil). Anyway, I made this up and waited the time, not quite 21 days yet, still 3 more days to go…but I have to say the scent does in fact change from what it initially smelled like the first day. I LOVE how it smells now. On the first day it just smelled like I mixed up those oils and wasn’t all that pleasing, just kind of like a weird concoction of strong smelling EOs. Now it smells more like a musk and is very nice. I’m definitely saving this recipe! Thank you so much! ❤️
Gena, you deserve a prize for resourcefulness. I know how hard it is to get hold of amber. Thank your for your contribution and great idea. I will be trying that myself to see how different the blends are, if at all. Did you know that Patchouli improve with age. That might be the secre.
Glad you like the eventual aroma. I Guess perfumers know what they are talking about when they say leave it for 21 day. Isn’t nature amazing.
Thank you for you response. I know it will help other people lots.
To Gena
I want Amber oil. How can I find it or make it?
I now have some in stock if you still are unable to find it.
For almost 40 years I wore a cologne that was equal parts Light Musk, Egyptian Musk and Floral Musk in a thin (non oily) base. I bought from Garden Botanical who recently stopped producing, turned it over to Zidle and then they sent it to Amazon.
If I can find the base to mix it with along with Floral and Egyptian Musk, I can try to mix myself. I have a good size bottle of Light Musk.
Any assistance you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Lissa Glenn
Lisa
I am not familiar with that aroma. If you still have any, my suggestion would be to try and create it. If you want help with sourcing materials, I may be able to help. Be aware that trial and error can be costsly, expecially if you not longer have any of the scent for comparison.
Also bear in mind that you may have changed on a number of levels especially, emotional and metaphysical. So I would try to create something for your needs today. Hope this is helful.
I do have a very small amount of Amber to compare.
Hello, where can I find the amber essential oil? Everything I’ve come across says “fragrance oil” but not essential.
Hi. Thank you so much for the recipe!
I made this mix (using the cypress recipe in comments) and I’m sooo happy with it!
I know I need to wait 21 days for the full effect but I put a drop on my wrists and after about half an hour I could smell musk 😃
I am really pleased you liked the result. I really value your feedback. Thank you
why do you leave the blend for 21 days. What is the explanation behind it?
“if you want to read a little bit more on making up perfume from essential oils, Here is a good link that will provide a little more information here Wikihow.”
Could i get the link please?
Also you used 30 ml of Carrier oil and on top of that you used 23 drops of essential oils which is about +1.35ml. so in TOTAL you have 31.35ml finished product right ?