Perfumer’s alcohol is the loose term for a blend of alcohol and some additives used as a base for perfumes. It’s can be used as a placeholder term for TSDA or in reference to a blend intended to be used in place of TSDA. Some brands sell proprietary Perfumer’s Alcohol blends in countries where you need a license to obtain TSDA such as the UK. This is an excellent alcohol to use for beginners when TSDA cannot be obtained.
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In chemistry, the term Alcohol refers to the -OH functional group. That means whenever you have oxygen with a single bond to both a hydrogen atom and something else, it’s classed as an ‘alcohol’.
It follows from this that you could make an infinite number of alcohols. Cedrol is one example which is naturally found in Cedarwood Essential Oil (A raw material used in perfumery):
Obviously, however, when you take a drink of vodka, you aren’t ingesting a glass full of cedarwood oil. The alcohol found in alcoholic drinks also has a special name in chemistry; Ethanol.
Ethanol is the specific alcohol you get when you add an ethyl group (an arrangement of 2 carbon and 5 hydrogen atoms) to the alcohol -OH. Ethanol is found all over the place; from alcoholic drinks to biofuel to (you guessed it) perfume. In fact ethanol is so common, the term “Alcohol” is used in everyday life to refer to it.
Yes, precisely. Alcoholic perfumes (i.e. the usual spray on ones, not oil based ones) are made by diluting a fragrance concentrate (made up of things like aromachemicals and essential oils) with ethanol. The ethanol acts as a solvent which help create a sprayable consistency and helps the perfume disperse well on the skin and evaporate.
So, it follows then that when you’re making an alcoholic perfume, you need to add some alcohol (ethanol) to your final product. Choosing which “Alcohol” to purchase for this often causes confusion amongst beginner perfumers. The purpose of this article is to clear up any confusion you may have.
If you’ve researched online which alcohol to add to your perfume, you may have come across some of the following terms:
We will now go through all of these terms and unpick exactly what they mean and if you should be using them in your perfume.
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