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Scented Web Roundup issue 1
👋 Hello and welcome to the first ever edition of 🌸Scented Web Roundup🌸 a subscriber-only email, delivered every week, highlighting the most helpful conversations in the Scented Waters Discord and r/diyfragrance subreddit and the best content from around the web
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🌊Top Scented Waters Threads this week
The best vanilla fragrance? Q: Or what other fragrances would you recommend with vanilla note?
—Zywiec
eliyan revealed his fragrantica, full of vanilla
a fragrantica collection full of vanillas
What’s better than vanilla anyways?! Nothing Uncle Nik
My kinda vanilla is like vanille fatale, absolute aphrodisiac, and eau duelle edp eliyan
Also if u want a super good smoky, vanilla, warm, spicy frag u can try hypnotizing fire parfum Gryphus
The best vanilla fragrance? Q: I’m thinking of picking up bleu de chanel edp, would that be redundant given what i have rn?
—jamie
I’d suggest YSL Y EDP, they’re similar but in my opinion, it’s nicer lt
bleu de chanel is mad expensive for a blue fragrance kahin
🛠️Top r/diyfragrance posts this week
Biggest problem you face as perfumer?Q: Curious what types of problems you guys face when it comes to perfumery. Is it the equipment? Materials, creating the actual formulas, researching, etc…
—u/mahneiy
Too many ideas, not enough time /u/Vast-Orange1237
Price constrains on a brief /u/GIPgrasse
Mostly it’s how expensive things are. Scales were $600 (all prices in AUD), shipping fees for synthetics from overseas are around $150-200.
Having a day job.
Being a dumbarse with recording what I’ve made. About a year ago I made something that was really good – smelled like a classy jazz singer would smell – but there was something in the top end that I didn’t care for. Made a modification to the original document and saved over the previous version. The modified version was nice, but not as good. u/Tolerable-DM
Your TOP 3 CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT ingredients?Q: What is your top three ingredients you just can’t live without?
Dont cheat, only three. Curious to see which ones you value and if you would, why?
—/u/No-Scheme-3759
Mine are boring, but: IES, Hedione and Ethylene Brassylate. Could have gone with so many musks but EB is cheap and versatile so I end up using it a ton. /u/Knox_Proud
ethylene brassylate: My favorite aromachemical. Its affordability belies its outstanding beauty.
bergamot FCF: This goes into basically every composition of mine. It’s an easy path to “complexity” for building the top-note layer. It’s incredibly versatile (there’s a reason bergamot and/or bergamot-like accords are ubiquitous in fragrances), and with a few small tweaks, it can be pushed in almost any direction.
Lilyflore: I can’t imagine composing a fragrance without some sort of lily-of-the-valley molecule(s). Lily-of-the-valley ACs provide life and harmony. My favorite in isolation is Majantol, but I find Lilyflore to be the better general-purpose workhorse in practice. /u/gambitbaron
Patchouli EO, Rose / Geranium materials, and resins, so i can construct amber and leather.
Been loving benzaldehyde in everything lately /u/JavierDiazSantanalml
🔮Top news
Allure magazine published a longform article about the involvment of Frédéric Malle in the relaunch of 5 Estée Lauder fragrances
Esxcence, the biggest professionnal niche event, will be happening next month. Tons of news will probably announced there, and I’ll be attending!
L’Oréal won Miu Miu beauty licence. Expect some new releases from this partnership in 2025
It’s mimosa harvest season! Here is a french article about the mimosa road near Tanneron🤓Top finds
/u/Any_Sky_8117 over on r/diyfragrance announced the release of a search engine that gives a sorely needed dust up to TheGoodScentsCompany. You can try the app here!
I posted my second “3 myths the fragrance industry is telling oy” video on tiktok. You can watch it hereHope your week is full of olfactory discoveries.
| 🧠Scented Web Roundup:Scented Web Roundup issue 1 |
| 👋 Hello and welcome to the first ever edition of 🌸Scented Web Roundup🌸 a subscriber-only email, delivered every week, highlighting the most helpful conversations in the Scented Waters Discord and r/diyfragrance subreddit and the best content from around the web |
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| A big thank you to this month’s community sponsor, myself. Yes, we don’t have sponsors yet. Want to sponsor a newsletter? Get in touch here! |
| 🌊Top Scented Waters Threads this week |
| The best vanilla fragrance? |
| Q: Or what other fragrances would you recommend with vanilla note?—Zywiec |
| eliyan revealed his fragrantica, full of vanilla |
 |
| What’s better than vanilla anyways?! Nothing Uncle NikMy kinda vanilla is like vanille fatale, absolute aphrodisiac, and eau duelle edp eliyan Also if u want a super good smoky, vanilla, warm, spicy frag u can try hypnotizing fire parfum Gryphus |
| The best vanilla fragrance? |
| Q: I’m thinking of picking up bleu de chanel edp, would that be redundant given what i have rn?—jamie |
 |
| I’d suggest YSL Y EDP, they’re similar but in my opinion, it’s nicer ltbleu de chanel is mad expensive for a blue fragrance kahin |
| 🛠️Top r/diyfragrance posts this week |
| Biggest problem you face as perfumer? |
| Q: Curious what types of problems you guys face when it comes to perfumery. Is it the equipment? Materials, creating the actual formulas, researching, etc…—u/mahneiy |
| Too many ideas, not enough time /u/Vast-Orange1237Price constrains on a brief /u/GIPgrasseMostly it’s how expensive things are. Scales were $600 (all prices in AUD), shipping fees for synthetics from overseas are around $150-200.Having a day job.Being a dumbarse with recording what I’ve made. About a year ago I made something that was really good – smelled like a classy jazz singer would smell – but there was something in the top end that I didn’t care for. Made a modification to the original document and saved over the previous version. The modified version was nice, but not as good. u/Tolerable-DM |
| Your TOP 3 CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT ingredients? |
| Q: What is your top three ingredients you just can’t live without?Dont cheat, only three. Curious to see which ones you value and if you would, why?—/u/No-Scheme-3759 |
| Mine are boring, but: IES, Hedione and Ethylene Brassylate. Could have gone with so many musks but EB is cheap and versatile so I end up using it a ton. /u/Knox_Proudethylene brassylate: My favorite aromachemical. Its affordability belies its outstanding beauty.bergamot FCF: This goes into basically every composition of mine. It’s an easy path to “complexity” for building the top-note layer. It’s incredibly versatile (there’s a reason bergamot and/or bergamot-like accords are ubiquitous in fragrances), and with a few small tweaks, it can be pushed in almost any direction.Lilyflore: I can’t imagine composing a fragrance without some sort of lily-of-the-valley molecule(s). Lily-of-the-valley ACs provide life and harmony. My favorite in isolation is Majantol, but I find Lilyflore to be the better general-purpose workhorse in practice. /u/gambitbaronPatchouli EO, Rose / Geranium materials, and resins, so i can construct amber and leather.Been loving benzaldehyde in everything lately /u/JavierDiazSantanalml |
| 🔮Top news |
| Allure magazine published a longform article about the involvment of Frédéric Malle in the relaunch of 5 Estée Lauder fragrancesEsxcence, the biggest professionnal niche event, will be happening next month. Tons of news will probably announced there, and I’ll be attending!L’Oréal won Miu Miu beauty licence. Expect some new releases from this partnership in 2025It’s mimosa harvest season! Here is a french article about the mimosa road near Tanneron |
| 🤓Top finds |
| /u/Any_Sky_8117 over on r/diyfragrance announced the release of a search engine that gives a sorely needed dust up to TheGoodScentsCompany. You can try the app here!I posted my second “3 myths the fragrance industry is telling oy” video on tiktok. You can watch it here |
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