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By Alaa Allam · The Home Perfumery Guide, Revised Practical Edition · September 2026
The Home Perfumery Guide is a 44-page working guide: 52 material profiles, 6 formula studies, 64 glossary terms, calculation lessons, printable bench records and a business roadmap. It teaches you to understand materials, compose with purpose and make every batch repeatable.
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- Citrus Garden: a complete formula study — the full 10 g formula, stock strengths, weights and a controlled V2 experiment.
- Perfume dilution and concentration maths — % w/w, stock dilutions and solvent ratios with worked examples.
A look inside
Full contents
| Section | Page |
|---|---|
| Start safely and set up | 4 |
| Understand structure and families | 6 |
| Learn to smell and compare | 8 |
| Calculate concentrations and stocks | 9 |
| Choose a format; read supplier documents | 11 |
| Build a 52-material reference palette | 13 |
| Build accords and improve a blend | 18 |
| Follow the bench workflow | 20 |
| Troubleshoot with controlled experiments | 21 |
| Understand natural extraction | 22 |
| Store and check your work | 23 |
| Six formula studies: Citrus Garden, White Floral, Cedar Atelier, Rose & Dark Woods, Citrus Fougère, Soft Amber | 24 |
| Print your bench records | 31 |
| Develop a product and business | 34 |
| Prepare labels and packaging | 36 |
| Price and launch deliberately | 37 |
| Dictionary: 64 useful terms | 38 |
| Sources and further reading | 42 |
How it is written
The guide is deliberately careful. The six formulas are educational starting points for smelling-strip evaluation, and the book says plainly what has and has not been tested. Safety, supplier documentation and regulatory checks are part of the method, not an afterthought, and a sources directory closes the book.
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