新手香水制作套装应该包含什么？

作者：Omer Siton，PerfuMate 创始人 · 更新于 2026-10-07

A scale that reads 0.01 g, glass to weigh into and store in, pipettes, smelling strips, perfumer's alcohol, a solvent for dilutions, gloves, and five to ten materials that cover the top, heart and base of a perfume. That is a complete beginner kit. Whether you buy it as a box or put it together yourself, the test is the same: can you weigh a formula in grams with it, and make the same perfume twice?

Is a ready-made perfume-making kit worth buying?

Sometimes: a small kit that passes the checks below is a reasonable start, because it saves choosing materials before you know them, and some come with a first recipe. The risk is a large box of materials someone else chose, several doing the same job, none labelled well enough to reorder. Five to ten materials you learn properly teach more than forty you never get to know, and they cost less (what it costs to start). If a kit fails the checks, build your own from the list on this page.

What should a good beginner kit contain?

Equipment you buy once, and five to ten materials that cover the top, heart and base. The equipment:

• A scale that reads 0.01 g. Perfume is weighed, never counted in drops.
• Glass: small beakers or vials to weigh into, bottles with tight caps for concentrates and dilutions, and a spray bottle for the finished perfume.
• Pipettes, one per material, so no bottle contaminates another.
• Smelling strips, for every material and every trial.
• Perfumer's ethanol to dilute the concentrate, and dipropylene glycol (DPG) for 10 percent dilutions of strong materials.
• Labels, a notebook, nitrile gloves and safety glasses.

And the materials, chosen to cover the three parts of the pyramid. This starter set is the one the first formula on how to make perfume at home uses, with the catalog's figures for each:

The strip times are the catalog's estimates, and they show why the set works: a citrus gone in hours, a heart that lasts days, and bases that hold from over a week to more than two weeks. The impact column shows why two are kept diluted: Ambroxan and Vanillin are strong, and both are solids that are far easier to weigh as a 10 percent solution.

What should I check before buying a kit?

That it works in grams, names every material, states every dilution, comes with its safety papers, includes single materials and can be refilled:

• Grams, not drops. Does it include a 0.01 g scale, or assume you have one, and are its recipes written in grams? A recipe in drops cannot be repeated exactly.
• Named materials. Each bottle should carry the material's real name, Hedione or Bergamot FCF Essential Oil rather than a number or a fantasy name, so you can look it up and reorder it.
• Stated dilutions. A bottle that is a 10 percent solution must say so, or every formula written with it is wrong by a factor of ten.
• Safety information. A safety data sheet for each material and, for any ready-made fragrance oil, the IFRA certificate written by the company that made it, with its limit for each type of product.
• Single materials, not only blends. A kit of ready-made fragrance oils teaches diluting and mixing; composing is learnt from single materials.
• Refills. Can you reorder one material when it runs out, without buying the whole box again?

How do I build my own starter kit?

Buy the equipment and five to ten single materials, then dilute, store and smell them before the first formula:

1. Buy the equipment above and the smallest size of five to ten materials, such as the seven in the table.
2. On the day they arrive, make 10 percent dilutions of the strong ones: 1 g of material and 9 g of DPG, weighed, capped and labelled with the name, the strength and the date. The dilution calculator does the arithmetic for any strength.
3. Store everything closed, cool and away from light (how to store perfume materials).
4. Smell each material on its own strip before you use it, and again an hour later (how to evaluate materials on blotters).
5. Weigh a first formula: the beginner recipes start from this set.

Then add materials one at a time, when a formula asks for something the set cannot do. Two bottles, Galaxolide and Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, take this set to the four-material skin scent on the recipes page. Where to buy perfume materials covers the suppliers and what to ask them for.

Essential-oil kit or aroma-chemical kit?

Either works for learning, and most perfumes use both. An essential-oil kit teaches naturals: rich, rough and variable, quick to open, and limited in the base to resins, woods and roots, because the clean musks and the ambergris molecules are synthetic. An aroma-chemical kit teaches structure: single molecules that smell the same every time and give radiance and length. The starter set above mixes two naturals with five aroma chemicals.

For an all-natural set, start from the naturals of the amber floral on how to make natural perfume, a formula weighed in grams and checked against IFRA, with resins such as Labdanum absolute and woods such as Vetiver Essential Oil in the base. Natural is not exempt from limits: essential oils carry restricted molecules and allergens like any synthetic, and in that formula it is the ylang ylang that had to come down to pass IFRA. Aroma chemicals vs essential oils compares the two.

What is a perfume organ, and do I need one?

A perfume organ is a perfumer's workstation, a piece of furniture that holds the working palette of materials around the desk, within reach, and you do not need one to start. The perfume house Fragonard explains the name both ways: it looks like an organ, and it holds notes, which its description sorts into head, heart and base. Seven to ten bottles fit in a box or on a shelf; arrange them by top, heart and base so the shelf itself teaches the pyramid, keep them cool and away from light, and think about a rack only when the shelf outgrows the box.

The free catalog gives each material its job, impact and typical dilution, and its strip life where one is known, before you buy it, and PerfuMate keeps your shelf, dilutions included, beside your formulas. Start a formula, free.

来源（查阅于 2026 年十月 6 日）

• Fragonard Parfumeur: The perfumer's organ
• IFRA: Using the Standards (who issues an IFRA certificate)