Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects, and living spaces a pleasant scent. The odoriferous compounds that make up a perfume can be manufactured synthetically or extracted from plant or animal sources.

Perfumes have been known to exist in some of the earliest human civilizations either through ancient texts or from archaeological digs. Modern perfumery began in the late 19th century with the commercial synthesis of aroma compounds such as vanillin or coumarin, which allowed for the composition of perfumes with smells previously unattainable solely from natural aromatics alone.

This is a collection of seven {7} vintage books, designed to teach you the basics of creating your own perfumes and fragrances.

:: The art of perfumery and the methods of obtaining odours of plants, with instructions for the manufacture of dentifrices, pomatums, cosmetiques, perfumed soap, etc. (1857)

:: A practical treatise on the manufacture of perfumery, comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity (1892)

:: How To Make Your Own Perfume

:: Odorographia - a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry - Vol 1 (1892)

:: Odorographia - a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry - Vol 2 (1892)

:: Perfumery and kindred arts - a comprehensive treatise on perfumery (1877)

:: Raw materials of perfumery, their nature, occurrence and employment (N.D.)

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