process and creation
My creative process and the process of creating, step by step...
smell
Sometimes it starts when I smell a plant in the mountains, it can define what I'm going to use. Whether it does or not, they are an important part of the creative process.
idea
Sometimes everything is also created from a concrete idea, I create the brief and the formula based on my aromatic memory.
intuition
Other times inspiration comes and I sit at the organ, the ideas come automatically, I smell, add and write down and the aroma is created, and the most curious chords emerge.
BASES
I add the previously created bases: cold extractions such as enfleurage, hydroalcoholic tinctures; tempered extractions such as macerations in oil with controlled heat as in the past.
They are formulated to provide special nuances, impossible to achieve with concentrated extracts alone.
concentrates
I add the concentrates, either previously created accords, or absolutes and essential oils or molecules directly if it is intuitive and direct.
They dance with each other to join their molecular bridges to create a new scent from the mixture of themselves.
testing
Smelling. Smelling is the most important part. At the beginning, during and at the end, and always. If I create separate chords, I study them before adding them, and to create them, you have to smell a lot. When it is an intuitive composition, it smells as it falls almost drop by drop.
mature
We let the mixture stand for a few days or weeks.
Then we can finish adjusting it if necessary, giving it a few final strokes.
For solids and powders the process changes...
coagula
For solid or powdered perfumes the final process is different:
For powdered perfumes, the concentrates are added directly to the powder and mixed quickly so that it does not clump together and stored.
For solid perfumes, the beeswax is heated with part of the bases and when they are melted and lukewarm, they are mixed with the heat-sensitive concentrates and packaged.