You don’t need a degree in maths to calculate percentage for your perfume Formula . If you are new to percentage calculation in perfume or you don’t know why you are calculating percentage, please visit the previous post on the types of perfume for a background.
Conventionally all liquids are supposed
to be measured by volume, some perfumers do prefer measuring their fragrance by
weight. Whichever method you want to use is okay provided you stick to the same
method all the time i.e don't measure by volume one time and weight the next, or mix
the two methods unless you write it down in your notes that A was by volume, B
by weight. Precise measurements are very important if you need to reproduce
your formulas.
Let’s get
cracking
Steps
1.
Multiply the percent by the volume
or weight that you want to prepare. Let’s assume I want to prepare 2% of a certain
fragrance in 3ml. Then it is going to be
2 x 3 =6
2.
Divide the answer by 100 . e.g 6/100 = 0.06
From the above we see that to
prepare 2% of a certain fragrance in 3ml will be 0.06 grammes or mls. Do the
same for all the remaining fragrance you want to incorporate into the perfume
formula. Do the same for alcohol.
Remember to
always keep your notebook and pen to record. The total percentage of all the fragrance plus alcohol must be equal to 100% else your calculation was wrong.
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