Essential Oil Perfume Recipes

  • #1- Floral Essential Oil Perfume Recipe. 12 drops Wild Orange; 5 drops Lime; 5 drops Jasmine; 2 drops Lavender; Mix it, and add the carrier oil until the glass roll on is full. Make sure to shake before each use. #2- Lovely Rose Essential Oil Perfume Recipe.
  • To make 10ml of perfume oil, we’ll be going by the 50/30/20 essential oil blending rule. This means you’ll use a ratio of 50% base note, 30% middle note, and 20% top note, roughly equating to 6 drops base note, 4 drops middle note, and 3 drops top note.
  • You'll notice in these 15 essential oil perfume recipes that you can use different combinations and oils to create your perfect scent or spray. How to Make Essential Oil Perfume. While the basis for each recipe is pretty consistent, you'll notice that the number of essential oil drops added will vary.

How to Make Perfume (at Home) Most perfumes are a mixture of fragrance oils in an alcohol base. There are base fragrances, mid-tones and top notes. When you smell a perfume, the top notes are typically the first thing you smell, followed by mid and then base notes. In making perfume, you select and add them in order from base to top.

Yummy aromatherapy perfume recipes for making homemade perfume

Express yourself with scent! Creating your own essential oils perfume is a powerful way to express your individuality.

Plus it's easy, fun and all-natural. And with these aromatherapy perfume recipes you can make one for every mood!

Not only do you smell fabulous, but you get the health-boosting, happy-making, nerve-calming benefits of using essential oils.

Get comfortable making homemade perfume using these seven essential oils perfume blends and then start experimenting to create your own signature scent. Fun and super-rewarding!

Oil

Homemade Perfume Base

1 tablespoon (15ml) Jojoba or Grapeseed oil

1 tablespoon (15ml) Vodka

Buy Jojoba oil or Grapeseed oil

Essential Oils Perfume Blends

Darkly Mysterious
8 drops Sandalwood, 3 drops Lavender, 1 drop Cedarwood

Floral Romance
5 drops Palmarosa, 3 drops Rose, 1 drop Geranium, 1 drop Ylang Ylang (use more palmarosa and geranium if you don't have any rose essential oil)

Fountain of Youth
9 drops Grapefruit, 1 drop Geranium, 1 drop Ylang Ylang

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Did you know... The smell of grapefruit makes women seem younger to men.

Researchers at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago found that the scent of pink grapefruit makes a woman appear an average of five years younger to men. (I need lots of this one...)

Luscious Lavender
6 drops Lavender, 4 drops Frankincense, 1 drop Geranium

Sensuously Spicy
8 drops Sandalwood, 2 drops Orange, 1 drop Patchouli, 1 drop Ylang Ylang

Sweet Enough to Eat
5 drops Vanilla, 4 drops Cocoa Absolute, 1 drop Ylang Ylang

Upbeat n' Happy
5 drops Bergamot, 5 drops Grapefruit, 1 drop Geranium

Directions

  1. Use a funnel to pour the oil and alcohol into a 2oz (50ml) dark glass or PET plastic bottle. Drop in the essential oil perfume blends.
  2. Cap the bottle and shake it to mix everything together. Keep it in a cool, dark place for two weeks to let the homemade perfume 'cure'. Shake the mixture several times a day.

A friendly reminder: More and more people are becoming sensitive to perfumes - even natural ones. (For example, my mother gets migraines when she's exposed to any perfume.)

Please be sensitive to their needs and don't wear your essential oils perfume when you think it might cause anyone discomfort.

Ingredients for Homemade Perfume Recipes

I started using essential oils from doTerra after comparing them to the other brands in my stash.

I found myself using fewer drops per recipe and actually getting better results. Plus, I've never had a bad reaction, which sometimes happens with other brands.

doTerra's oils cost more than other brands, and that's as it should be. It's like buying a BMW vs. a Kia - the more expensive car is the better quality vehicle.

If you can afford them, I recommend giving doTerra's oils a try and comparing them for yourself.

You can buy doTerra's oils at retail prices by clicking the Shop button at the top. Or click Join & Save to become a wholesale customer and get a store-wide 25% discount. Message me if you want more details on the wholesale thing - why spend more than you have to, right?


I recommend Mountain Rose Herbs for all other recipe ingredients and if you're on a tight budget. I love their friendly, helpful staff, their prices and the quality of their products - most of them are organic without a huge jump in cost. Here's some quick links to the ingredients you'll need for these homemade perfume recipes...

Lavender Essential Oil


Or... If you love having tons of options to choose from, browse through Amazon and see what looks good to you. Just remember that inexpensive oils are likely to be lower in quality - how else do they get the cost so low?

What Next?

How about mixing your own signature scent? Want some help figuring out how to go about it? Here's a great guide to show you how to mix essential oils with confidence.


This eBook will teach you how to create your own essential oil blends with confidence. You'll learn...

  • How to classify essential oils using categories.
  • How to choose your first essential oils.
  • Critical safety information you need to know about the essential oils you'll be blending.
  • How to use the Rule of Three.
  • How to create essential oil blends for body, bath and home.
  • How to mix essential oils for health. Includes 12 pages of health problems and the correct oils to care for them.

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Homemade Essential Oil Perfume Recipes

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