Natural Perfumery

“Making perfumes is easy” by AbdesSalaam Attar “La Via del Profumo”

I shall proceed to teaching perfumery with 2 summer seminar in 2017.
There will be 6 days of daily classes and workshops to teach 10 students both my philosophy of perfumery and my method of composing fragrances.

The classes will cover a range of issues. One key point will be natural raw materials, including animal scents and rare essences, several of which can be smelled only with me. I will explain the crucial issue of how to understand and evaluate the quality of natural raw materials.

Every day, there will be blending workshops using different methods and approaches. I will teach students how to custom blend fragrances for private clients, customers, or friends. The perfumes composed daily during the workshop will be bottled and kept by the students. I will also explain how to approach concept blending, custom perfumes at distance and custom perfumes for companies. In addition, I will discuss where to source the best essences, so that those who have learned how to make perfumes with me can carry on as independent perfumers.

Other topics will include perfume descriptive language, olfactory psychology, philosophy and the ethics of natural perfumery. These are fundamentally important because the nose is only secondary to the mind in making perfumes, which is before all else a mental attitude.

Before the course begins, I will guide students through a critical pre-course where they will learn several important points that will help them to prepare and to acquire the right mental approach, as well as familiarizing them with the philosophy underlying the course as a whole.

I will send each student two practical kits of essences as part of their registration.

They will explore and experiment with the materials under my guidance in order to gain an important basic knowledge of their properties and also to explore olfactory psychology.

By introducing you to the materials and basic perfume philosophy ahead of time, we will be able to dive into actual perfume composition and begin blending immediately at the seminar in Italy.

Please see http://perfume.courses/