Scent-sations: How To Make A Scent Using Alcohol Extraction

1. A Warm Welcome And Class Overview: If you have always been inspired by the beautiful natural world around you, didn't toxic heating smell of flowers, the light please send up leaves and so on. And you want to bring a piece of the outdoors with you, then this is the class for you. You can call me joy. And I'm so excited to take you through this class here and sharing the Class Overview and navigation so that you have a good idea about what we're going to be doing together. I'll be starting off with the introduction so that you know what extraction using alcohol is all about. Then come along with me as we go on a journey. It, I'll be sharing with you a few tips and tricks about what you should know before you pick up to date, you can get the best sense. There are two different approaches that I'll be sharing with you. It's a solid Florida, which is a single flower, and this will be our red and Japan. I'll also be working with a multi-flow, our concoction and this I termed as white balance that you will see why later. Then. I also will bring you to the kitchen and you can extract sense and not just from the natural law outdoors, but also from your own work in the kitchen. I'll be sharing with you how you can extract some of the sentence, The ******. And I hope that this is just a start of your journey for my else, you're gonna be making a simple alcohol. I'll be showing you something that you can do for your home, which is a room spray. The videos that I'll be sharing with you are going to concentrate on the process of how you do things. And I really want to make sure that you can concentrate on that. I provided for you some handouts. Say how that gets you excited. Though, you can't wait to get into the hands-on practical aspects of working with center alcohol. But first, I'm going to be sharing with you a few things you should note when you're working with alcohol extraction of sense. Then after that, we'll get down. So the nitty-gritty and the hands-on lab coming up next is going to be an introduction to alcohol extraction of sense. 2. How To Make A Scent Through Alcohol Extraction: A Primer: I know you're very excited to get into the hole making and hands-on experience of creating your center alcohol. By Here's the introduction that will help you and give you a good background to the practical world that we will be doing together. So what this section is going to be about is we are going to explore what is denaturing the next, what is the guiding ethos? What injuring to extract sense, and also very importantly, cleaning and safety. So first, a primer on tinkering. So what you're going to be using is your high proof alcohol. So you can use things like ever clear for green alcohol, sugar, alcohol, whatever you have on hand. And your plant material are going to be doing side petals, your leaves, your pots, and so on. You're going to be immersing your plant material in your alcohol. This is what the injury is. So what are you going to be using to extract the sense from these are going to be sending agents. It could be flowers, leaves, barks, and roots. And here is one of my first one. Trusts for extracting sense from natural ingredients is really downs with it. If we go to a shop and if you buy Chanel number five from one shop and rational number five from another sharp, it is going to smell the same. But if you're collecting natural materials like flowers, even though it's read French, penny equipped smell defendant when you pick it up from different places. So the idea is really to dance and to be open-ended experience or fight this natural ingredients can do for you and allow yourself to be surprised. Next is also about the spirit of experimentation. Sometimes you may read recipes and of course, I'll be giving you some recipes here. And you would expect that it will go according to what the recipe says. But really when it comes to working with natural materials, so many things also go into play and to just the spirit of experimentation, I'd like. For example, if I were to do an alcohol thing just for one flower, it works. But if I were to draw an alcohol thing, Jeff, another flower, it may not work. So it's really important for us to just really explore and have the spirit of experimentation to see whether it works with the kinds of flowers or botanical matter that you have on hand in your backyard. So here's a node when you're gathering your natural materials fast. Don't abroad wild plants because you need them to generate and you also want to eat them to be able to generate enough seats for the next crop. So don't remove all the flowers either. And for box, for Southern trees. Actually, it is quite damaging for the trees if you peel the buck. But for some trees, naturally the backward peel off. So. What is safe for you is to take only the back from forelimb or removed branches. Yeah. And also for leaves. Don't leave any bunches bear. So maybe you might have a tree that has a couple of branches. And you may just want to pick one or two leaves on each branch so that you don't leave any branch bear. Alright. But also important is also cleaning and safety. That three different types of cleaning and safety. When is the first level right? Sanitize. Just make sure that all your tools and all your equipment yet at least washed them in hot water using soap or detergent. Now, some of the items, in fact, you can wipe down with rubbing alcohol or something that has a similarly high proof percentage. And if your tools, like if they're not plastic or glass, you can actually boil these tools in boiling water for about 20 minutes. Or you can also use a UV sterilizing unit. Alright? And also with tools and equipment. Honestly, you can go to town. I bind all the tools and equipment that you need. But I like some of you are hobbyist and we don't do this professionally, at least, I don't. And for me, this mundane and exploring natural materials is something for me, a source of pleasure. And for me, I will use this mantra of simplicity. And using what I have on hand, I can always get specialized tools. That can always be specialized tools. But I also think it's quite important for us as hobbyist to make sure that we don't buy more than what we need. I'm also minimalist and when it comes to my items. So I want to make sure that I don't have too many items, tools, and equipment. So like I said, it seems a lot, but just use what you have on hand Buzz. To be honest. When I first started playing around with sense and I have my essential oils, I didn't start off with by incense trips. I do have them now. But when I first started off, I was just using like bits of watercolor paper because watercolor BBA is absorbing, right? So that was what I was using because I already have watercolor paper. So if you're just starting off your majors when a senior, but you have on hand like simplicity, right? Mantra. Simplicity. Just use what you have on hand. And when you know that this is something that you really want to invest a lot of time in. Then you buy the materials, tools, and equipment that you need. If you're looking for a list of what you might need, this, is it. So for processing the center agents, like a flower or your box or your pods, you will need a coffee filter. I find mercy. She's gone. Funnel. So this helps to separate the medium, which is your alcohol from your natural materials. You'll also probably need a mortar and pestle, as well as an all coffee grinder. So some of the items are villi too big and you need to grind them down to a manageable size particles. And you probably need either Madame vessel or the coffee grinder. When you're creating your sense, you may want to layer the different sense. And for you to do that, you will need holders. Here. Again, I don't even have specialized sense triples is I just use a peg. Or you might want to take the same idea for me or writing. Get your own sentence strip holders. You also need send strips, cotton, wool pads to just check how the combination work together. And if you're using a lot of center materials, you're smelling them a lot. You may have seen fatigue. So you may want to use coffee or wall containers. You may want to have a part. And this is solely for Cin extraction projects. Don't use materials that are used for food for your fragrance projects. You also need gas containers for storage and trees or protection from your working surfaces range. You are working with our call alcohol. Oh my gosh. It stains and it's going to be held for you to take it out. So it really helps to have plastic over you're walking surface or to put all your working materials on a tree so that it spills on the tree but not on your working surface. Next, measuring equipment, Yemeni, any of these because droppers measuring cups and spoons. Then recording is really very important feature for logbook. So you know, what are the experiments you have done and if you want to change it the next time, what is it your change? We go to cleaning and protection. Again, if you're working with alcohol or coffee stains, wrapper glands, it's a good friend that you probably wouldn't want to have. And also regs when you spill. I spill a lot. So let's go and go to MSF mixing tools. If you had glass rods, I think this would be the most ideal. Sometimes. You can't just say, Well, your mixture, you actually need to stir it with the glass rod. So that's something that you can consider. All right. Now the process of creating Center Alcohol? No. I talked about making things simple and I also like the process of making something to be easily, remember it and also simple. So again, the mantra to think about is a, b, c, d, and a buddies, a, B, C, D. Here we are. If you're sending Egypt. So first, when you are designing your center alcohol, what are you going to be using for your ascending agent? Is it flower? Is it a pod? Is it the bark? So which part of the botanical matter either using also the extraction agent. Here we are using center alcohol. But you may want to think of what kind of alcohol do you want to use. B, stands for bath stage. You are going to be dunking your natural materials in alcohol. And this is called the process of masturbation. So this is next, once you decide on your sending agents and the extraction agent, you are going to dump them together. C stands for combining components. Earlier I talked about layering your sense. So you may want to think like do you just want to have a solid floor? Meaning that you have the smell or from the same flowers. Or do you want to combine and layer sends in a way that you want to combine different flowers or different components. Yeah, maybe you might want to have your vanilla pods together with your adjustment and not share it. So you might want to think about how you might want to combine your components. And D, you have your center alcohol. And then what else do you want to do with it? And here is where you get creative with your sense. In this particular cons, I'm gonna be showing you a couple of projects that you can design, such as making a room spray as well as a centered alcohol perfume. So I hope that the segment gets you excited. But first, I'm going to take you down a center journey. Come with me. 3. Going On A Scented Journey: Yes. Queuing Tuesday. This lesson. Is this. 4. Before You Decide On The Flowers To Pick: Know These Tips: Where and when do you obtain flowers to create your scented alcohol? Here are a few tips. Let's take the case of the plumeria flower, or you might call it Fangy penny. If you're lucky enough to have a garden full of these beautifully fragrant flowers, you might know that they're most fragrant at night. These unopened buds may not bloom, just leave them on the tree. The best time to pick the flowers are when they have just bloomed. They're firm and they have yet to give off most of their scent. That way they retain most of their scent that can be extracted into the alcohol. Then we have those that are more limp, these you can give a miss. Okay, that's the ideal scenario if you do own your own flowering trees. I like many of you who are watching the videos, do not have my own French penny tree, but I'm lucky to have one living near my compound. I pick the flowers that have fallen onto the ground. I make sure that they're still firm and don't have brown spots, which means that they're decaying. I know they don't have much sense left compared to those who are still on the tree, but I will just have to use more flowers so that the eventual product we'll arrive at an intensity of fragrance that I desire. Where else to get our flowers? When we think of flowers, we associated with florist, but you can try to explore less conventional sources like ethnic stores. For example, I also love the scent of jasmine flowers. There is an area called Little India in my city where flower garlands are abundant. I could get jasmine flower buds from an Indian flower store that's located near the temples. Once you got your flowers, let's look at how we can do coal extraction of the scent. 5. Soliflore: Cold Extraction Of Scent From Red Frangipani: What we will be doing is immersing the flowers in a bottle of alcohol. We are using the alcohol as an extraction liquid to extract the scent molecules from flowers because we're not using heat, this process is called coal extraction. Alternatively, you can also call it the process of making an alcohol tincture. First, ensure that there is as little water as possible on your flowers. You don't want water to go into your alcohol because that might attract microbes and bacterial growth allow water to evaporate off from the flowers for up to a few hours. By laying them out in a single layer, the flowers should be quite limp by the time you work with them. Then you will disinfect your gloves, pour some rubbing alcohol on your gloves and wrap them together. Disinfect your bottle as well. Pour some rubbing alcohol on a piece of napkin and wipe the insides of the bottle that you're using to place the flowers in. Alternatively, you can also sterilize your bottle by putting it in boiling water for about 15 to 20 minutes to kill as many microbes as possible. These flowers have been left out for a few hours already. I'll be placing them into the bottle. It's much easier for you to work with a wide mouth bottle as opposed to something that's a little bit more narrow. This is because you're putting in the flowers and then removing them after they have been immersed for a while. This is a process called re charging that you will keep repeating an opening of the bottle that's wide enough to facilitate putting in and removing the flowers will be the best. Shake the bottle to let the flowers settle so that you can create more space to squeeze as many flowers as possible into the bottle. Aim to fill up at least 75% of the bottle with your fresh petals. Next, we're going to make an alcohol through the process of coal extraction. You have many options for this. You can use grain alcohol, sugar, alcohol ever clear. And if you're planning to use this to make a base for your own perfume, you'll see this in a later section of the course. Use perfumous alcohol. Make sure that whichever alcohol you use, that it contains a high percentage of alcohol, such as 190 proof. If you have something that's 75% alcohol, it might lead to cloudiness in your perfume due to the relatively high percentage of water. Pull your alcohol to the top of the bottle. Make sure that the level of alcohol is at least 1 " above the level of the flowers to make sure that every petal is fully immersed. Notes about the bottle seal. Although this is plastic, if you have a metallic cover available, it would be much better. Alcohol might degrade this plastic seal, especially if you're doing this coal extraction for a long period of time. Let's close the bottle. Tight label what you have placed inside the bottle, including the date, the solvent you used, and even what part of the plant you're using. It seems really obvious now. But trust me, when the alcohol degrades the natural material after a while, especially if you're running several coal extractions at the same time, you may not even remember what material you placed inside which bottle. I've also put in the time, 11:40 A.M. So that I remember. When was the last time new flowers were put in? In this example, I'm only going to leave the flowers in the alcohol for 24 hours. This is my first charge. Leave the bottle in a cool, dark, dry place a few times a day. Do shake the bottle just to make sure that all the petals are always in contact with alcohol. 6. Filtering and Recharging Red Frangipani For Greater Scent Intensity: This is what we get after about 24 hours. The petals are quite pale and translucent, and it's an indication that they have been spent. Okay, that's the term we're going to use. It's time to replace these flowers with fresh ones to prepare for the next recharge. Get ready cloth for the filtering filter funnel and a vessel to collect the alcohol. Let's begin the process of our second recharge. Open your bottle line, your filter funnel with the cloth. Take a width of your center alcohol to check the sand intensity. If you want to gauge how many more recharges you need to do now, pull your alcohol tincture through the funnel. Get all your flowers out from the bottle. The flowers feel really stiff now having been soaked in alcohol. Wrap your cloth around the flowers and give it a good squeeze to get as much center alcohol out as possible. You can see what a beautiful, brilliant, dark pink tincture that the french penny makes. I have another course on natural inks, and this would be a great choice to create Frenchy penny alcohol ink using the same bottle that we used yesterday. You can place the fresh flowers into it. Now, tap the bottom of the bottle to your palm to allow the flowers to settle as much as they can so that we can pack more flowers into the bottle. We're going to re, use the same alcohol that we used yesterday. What we're trying to do is that we're trying to increase the concentration of the French penny flower set molecules into the same amount of alcohol. To keep track, you can write down the date of your second recharge. In my case, I record it in a log book of camera. I've also provided a recharging log for you to use and that's provided in the PDF attached. You'll repeat this recharge process for as many times as possible until you get to a level of S intensity that you desire. 7. Bottling Of Red Frangipani Scented Alcohol: Right now we're at a stage where there has been a 15 recharges as locked in my logbook. And three months since the last video where I did the second recharge. You can see how dark the alcohol tincture is having gone through so many recharges, and you can see that it has a little bit of a reddish tint to it. At this point, I've already removed the flowers from the last recharge. I'm putting it through a finer filtering, using a coffee filter, rather than using a cheesecloth filter, which you saw in a previous video. Before bottling, I want to make sure that I remove as much of the organic petal material as possible. Prepare your bottle with a label to block out light. It's best to use an opaque bottle. As you can see, my bottle is not that big and I won't be storing all of the center alcohol into this small bottle. There are other uses for the center alcohol, which I'm going to show in a later video on making a room spray pot the center alcohol through the filter paper into the beaker. We can see the brown and reddish color of the tincture. Let's wait for the center alcohol to pass through the filter. Once that is done, I'm taking my already disinfected glass filter funnel. This is to put the filtered French Penny Center alcohol into the bottle. It really helps to have different sized funnels. If you are keen to create natural products like center alcohol or natural inks, I really like glass as a material too because it doesn't absorb the scent nor the color of the natural products and it's much easier to clean. Kept the bottle. Here you go. Your French Penny Center Alcohol made fire coal extraction. 8. Multifloral: Cold Extraction Of Scent From White Flowers: At the same time that we went through the French Penny centered alcohol process, I also embarked on the multi floral concoction that I call white flowers. Instead of using just one flower, like in the case of French Penny, earlier this time I used several comprising of Jasmine, orange, jasmine, and tubos flowers, just like for the French Penny. Before we do a first charge or recharge, spread your flowers out to allow as much water as possible to evaporate. For some flowers like Jasmine, you will have to spread out the green parts, which are the calyx from the petals as much as you can, because you wouldn't want to incorporate the scent from the green parts into your overall scented alcohol. For my first charge, I'm using the orange jasmine flowers. This is a similar process of packing as much flowers as you can into the bottle, and then pouring your alcohol to cover at least 1 " above the level of the flowers. A bottle of a white mouth is preferable, but for small flowers you can get away with using a bottle like this too. Cap the bottle and make sure that you record some of your charging details either on the bottle or in a separate logbook. Record the plump part, solvent, time of charge date, and so on. Then we place it in a cool, dark place. This will join our Plomeria Center alcohol. 9. Filter Anyway: When You Don’t Have Fresh Flowers For a Recharge: You can check your alcohol tincture the next day. This is what yesterday's jasmine and alcohol looks like. The petals are already translucent. And we call this Spent. This is a stage where you can do your next recharge. At this point, I've already done my second recharge and I'm showing you a video of me doing my third recharge with a different type of Jasmine. You've already seen me doing the filtering process for the French penny flower. It's pretty much the same for our multi floral, white flower centered alcohol too. You have your flowers and alcohol from a previous charge filter, funnel and cheese cloth or any other filter and a container to capture the center alcohol. Now let's pour the center alcohol through the cheesecloth. You'll see why it will be much easier to have a bottle with a wide mouth for easy removal of the flowers. Alternatively, you can always use your hands or chopsticks to remove them. Wrap your cheesecloth around the flowers, and give them a good squeeze so that we get as much of the center alcohol out as possible. Over time, you'll find that the amount of alcohol that you get from each recharge will get lesser and lesser. At this point, I don't have fresh flowers yet because I've got no time to buy them. This is real life. Yes. However, I do caution you against just leaving your flowers in the alcohol if it's too long before your next recharge because then these flowers might just disintegrate in the alcohol. I also don't want a longer time window for the alcohol to extract moisture from the flowers because it might encourage bacterial growth as much as possible. Just get your flowers out after every 24 hours of the previous charge. Now, of course, ideally the next recharge should happen together at the same time as you're getting a fresh batch of flowers. But if not, just make sure to remove the flowers after about a day of coal extraction and pour the center alcohol back into the bottle, waiting for the next opportunity to recharge. 10. Recharging 'White Flowers' For Greater Scent Intensity: Turn. At this point, I do have fresh flowers for my fourth recharge. Yeah, all I need to do is put the fresh flowers into the bottle of scented alcohol. Again, make sure that all the flowers are immersed in the alcohol. You'll repeat this process of recharging for as many times as you'd like to get the desired sent intensity. 11. Bottling The Final Recharge Of 'White Flowers': At this point, it has been three months since our first charge, there has been 15 recharges. I've already removed the flowers from the last recharge, and I'm just showing you the process of bottling. Despite removing the flowers every 24 hours over the previous recharges, the alcohol has accumulated organic matter, which you can see as a whitish sediment at the bottom of the bottle. I will be filtering this out before bottling the scented white flowers alcohol, prepare your filter paper, filter, funnel, and a beaker. I thought it was interesting that white flowers would give off a solution that is so dark. I was expecting the solution to be more yellow. But this is the color intensity. After about 15 recharges, there's nothing magic about the number 15. Actually, you can stop before or after that, depending on the scent intensity of your alcohol tincture. Let's pull the white flower scented alcohol through the folded paper. This is the bottle with the label that I'll be storing. The white flowers scented alcohol in the filter funnel is already disinfected with alcohol and sterilized. You can now pour the center alcohol into its eventual bottle. Cap the bottle and it is now ready to be used as a sent on its own, especially if you use perfumous alcohol or as a base for other products. 12. The Number One Factor For Successful Cold Extraction With Fresh Ingredients: Comparing the sol floor Feng penny with the multi floral white flower scent extraction process. One point is clear, both were carried out over three months. Both went through 15 re charges. But the scent for the white flowers is so much stronger. Choosing fragrance ingredients with the highest sent intensity in the first place matters whether you got them from the garden or you bought them. Recall that I use french penny that has fallen onto the ground. The scan intensity is not as strong as if I had picked the flowers from the tree itself just after it bloomed. Also, amongst the white flowers that I use, the smell of tubers dominates Jasmine. Even though I used more Jasmine flowers, find the right balance of sense or keep doing more recharges of the ingredient with a lower sand intensity to get the concentration of the set molecules that you want. 13. Extracting Scents From Spices: Flowers are not the only source of scent making. You can also poke around your kitchen for ******. The kitchen is also filled with lovely scents that you can extract with alcohol too. For example, cinnamon can give a homely comfortable feeling. Black pepper can be an accessory note that can provide lift and sparkle in your DIY perfumes. Prior to making this video, I've already made alcohol extracts of black pepper and cinnamon. For the cinnamon tincture, I've placed broken up cinnamon sticks to this particular bottle that contains alcohol. A dark colored bottle would be great so that it blocks out the light and it doesn't degrade whatever is inside. The smell in the bottle is heavenly. It reminds me of cinnamon rolls yum. In the case of cinnamon sticks and black pepper seeds, they are both dry and don't contain much moisture. I don't worry too much about bacterial growth as much as if I were to use fresh ingredients like flowers. Actually I don't do any re charging for these ******. I just leave the cinnamon sticks and the black pepper seeds inside for a few weeks. After three weeks, I bottled them. And that's what you see here. Let me share with you how the final filtering process was done for both cinnamon and black pepper. Note that it's important for you to use cinnamon sticks and not cinnamon powder. Because if you put cinnamon powder, it tends to coagulate and clump and becomes much harder to work with. I prepared the filter paper funnel and a white beaker so that you can see the resulting color of the alcohol extract of the cinnamon. Now I'll pull the contents out because of the small mouth of the bottle, the cinnamon sticks are left inside. You can see that the color of the center alcohol is a predictable reddish brown as usual. Make sure that your equipment like your funnel and the bottle have already been disinfected or sterilized. Now that the filtering process is completed, we will place the Cinnamon Center alcohol into the eventual bottle. When you're working with bottles that has a dropper, fill it up to only about 78 to account for the volume when you place the dropper, and otherwise your product is going to overflow. Ask me how I know now for the black pepper. In this bottle, you can see the seeds of the black pepper. They've been immersed in alcohol for about a month to make sure that there's enough time for the alcohol to extract as much scent as possible. We are now going to do the final filtering and you know the drill. Prepare the filter paper, funnel and the white beaker also line your table with plastic in case this happens, you can see the black pepper scented alcohol is yellowish green in color. Let's pour the black pepper tincture into another bottle with the dropper. I've already labeled it. Also, remember to sterilize and disinfect all your tools. Here we go. Ready for you to use as an ingredient in your own homemade center alcohol products. I hope that seeing the coal extraction process using feng penny, white flowers and the ****** will give you more inspiration to poke around and look around you to see what other sense you can extract. 14. Design A Room Spray With Floral Scented-Alcohol Extract: Now that you know how to create center alcohol from scratch, from natural ingredients, I'm going to show you one product for the home that you can make with it. I'll be making a bathroom spray with our white flower center alcohol. Here's what you need. I prepared water, our white flower center alcohol that we created earlier and a spray bottle that you will pour your bathroom spray into. I have two beakers here because I want to show you something I found interesting when working with alcohol and water. Also filter paper and filter funnel. For many bathroom sprays, essential oils are included to impart a nice scent. Because our alcohol is already centered, it can replace those essential oils. The scent is quite light and it doesn't last very long. If you want a stronger smell, you might choose to add other essential oils to blend with the scent that's already in our white flower center. Alcohol. If you want a longer lasting scent, you may also want to add base nodes, which evaporate slowly so that the scent lasts longer. Abo about top middle nodes and base nodes. In a later section of this course, when we're going to make perfume together, you saw in the earlier video that there's organic sediment in the white flowers alcohol extraction. The first step is to filter out that sediment. The filtering process takes a while. I've just used the pack to keep the funnel in place. Now I have the amount of center alcohol that I need for a bathroom spray. If you choose to add essential oils, add clear or uncolored ones because otherwise you might have stains from your spray. For example, I love the smell of Ben sun with its vanilla nodes and how the scent is so long lasting. However, benzine is very dark brown in color and it can potentially stain the material that it's sprayed on. Do be mindful about your choice of essential oils if you're using them to make your own homemade room sprays. Once these white flowers alcohol tincture is diluted with water, it becomes very light. I feel safe using it without causing stains. I'm going with a ratio of 75% water to 25% center alcohol for 100 milliliter alcohol spray. The fun fact, when water is added to alcohol, the final volume is about 10% less than the original volume of the two liquids. Because the molecules in the mixed liquid becomes more compacted, alcohol mixes better with water than oil. You'll find that the more essential oils that you put, you have to keep shaking your homemade spray. Since oil and water don't mix well, they keep separating. You can see how well water and alcohol mixes as I pour water into my alcohol. There is no separation. This is the spray bottle that I'm going to use. I like the strength of the spray and how well it can disperse the droplets into the air. If you have a high concentration of alcohol in your spray, however, use glass rather than plastic, because alcohol might degrade your plastic in the long run. Plastic also absorbs smells that is challenging to remove. I'll remove the water that's currently in the spray and add a mixture of center alcohol inside. To minimize spills, you can always use a funnel. This beaker already has a spout for easier pouring. When I'm making homemade products using natural ingredients, I try not to create a or something. Microbes, bacteria, mold, et cetera, love botanical ingredients. To be on the safe side, use a preservative if you're keeping your homemade products for a while. This spray is not going to be too big of an issue because it contains alcohol, which is already naturally sterilizing. But I still try to use it up within the next day or so. I hope you don't think it's too weird that I'm bringing you into my bathroom. Here's how I spray it throughout my bathroom. As I spray, I can smell mostly the tube rose, the floral notes slightly musky and the Jasmine notes are quite faint. Enjoy creating your own homemade room spray. It's a great way to bring the sense that you love outside into your domestic space. 15. Thank You! And Your Class Project: If you found this course useful, I'll appreciate it so much. If you could leave a review so that this course would be made more visible and other students can benefit too. Feel free to contact me because I want to continue designing classes and courses that you and future students can gain so much value from. Got questions. Pop the questions under the Q and A column for me to answer, because I'm sure other students might have the same questions too. Here is your class project. I would like to invite you to go out into the outdoors with your loved ones or just have a relaxing walk by yourself and look around you and to see what else are the smells that really attracted you and what you would like to work with. Or you can go to the heart of the kitchen and to see what are some of the things that you can extract the scents from. Then I want you to prepare your alcohol. What alcohol do you want to use? Do you want to use Mac or perfumers, alcohol grain alcohol and so on. So pick the alcohol that you want to use as your extracting agent. Then put your material that you have collected your scenting agent into the alcohol and follow the steps that I have shown in my videos, as well as you can refer to the handout that I have given to you under the resources now, I cannot wait to see what you come up with because you are probably living in a different country than I am. And I would love to see what are some of the flowers or some of the plant matter or even what's in your kitchen. Been really curious to see what you have. If you'd like to get in touch with me or you have any questions that I can help you with, you can always visit the community section of this class and post a new discussion. Or find me on Instagram at joinhands, my website, Joinhands.com Thank you for taking this class and I cannot wait to see you in another one.