Anyone ever try making your own alcohol based cologne? Seen

>>1045983


just fucking drink and smoke you idiot

>>1046003

I do but creating a cologne out of them sounded fun.

>>1046003
or buy a car owned by a smoker

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>>1045983
>alcohol based cologne
yeah m8, I get all the bitchz

>>1045983

If you're doing it because it sounded like fun and an interesting project then cool, that's awesome. If you're doing it to try and appeal to women then you're an idiot.

>>1046029

Already answered that two posts up. I rarely if ever even wear cologne (I don't like pre-packaged smells the idea of wearing the same scent as someone else bothers me so I'd rather make my own) but it was just an idea that popped into my head yesterday and then I looked around online and saw some articles and decided to go for it.

I made my own bay rum aftershave and I am sure it's a similar process. The trick to making the oil smell like what you want it to smell like is to let whatever herbs you want in it to sit for like a month. It takes some time for the fragrance to permeate the oil. Then add it to whatever alcohol and maybe another preservative agent and you are good to go. It's just that alcohol based colognes will dissipate relatively fast leaving only faint traces.

>>1046068

Yeah most of these guides are like just let it sit for an hour but I wasn't smelling anything after that. I'm thinking about sitting the oil and tobacco mason jar in a crock pot of water for a couple hours.

>>1045983
1) Alcohol is a good solvent. A really good solvent.

2) However, your average "thing that smells nice" isn't going to have enough aromatic compounds to make your alcohol potent enough.

3) even if you feed the same solvent through multiple batches of aromatic material, you're only ever going to reach the concentration of that material. For some things (e.g. probably some herbs? maybe citrus peel? Maybe vanilla?) this might be all the aroma you want. For most things, you're going to be disappointed, which leads us to

4) Distillation.

http://www.heartmagic.com/EssentialDistiller.html

With $400, a lot of patience, a bunch of work, and a thorough web search to find the boiling points of your desired aromatic compounds, you too can crudely refine your own aromatic compounds to mix into perfumes.

5) Or, y'know, buy them online, in better quality than you'll ever extract yourself:

https://www.amazon.com/NOW-Foods-Orange-Sweet-ounce/dp/B0019LPL8A

>>1045983
Buy a tobacco fragrance oil or essential oil. Don't try extracting the fragrance yourself, because you risk extracting the nicotine as well.

>>1046026
Most commercial colognes are made up of primarily alcohol.
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>>1047886
it was just a joke friendo. c'mon man.

>>1045983
I have a shit ton of essential oils from my soap making. I make colognes with them all the time for my boyfriend.

He's got himself a leather fetish so most of the scents revolve around the leather fragrance oil I got from Crafters Choice