How To Make Perfume from Flowers and Herbs from Your Garden

Reader Contribution by Sarah Hart Boone
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Learn how to make perfume from flowers, herbs, and other plants from your garden. This tutorial focuses on how to make oil based perfume.

My friend Mary has a green thumb and gets a bumper crop of clary sage every year. We are always trying to preserve the unusual, heady scent. Last year she put some in a glass canning jar with vodka in the hope that the scent would transfer to the vodka. It did not work. I did some research about homemade essential oil stills, thinking maybe we should try that route. These run the gamut from store-bought copper stills that will extract the pure scent from your flowers and herbs to homemade stills employing modified kettles, bags of ice and hoses. Either way, we are a little intimidated by the distiller idea and decided against it.

How to Make Oil Based Perfume

  • Updated on Jun 23, 2022
  • Originally Published on Jul 23, 2012
Tagged with: beeswax, crafts, essential oils, perfume, Reader Contributions, Sarah Boone, Sarah Hart Boone
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