From Beginner to Master Perfumer.

What perfume is, how smell works, setting up a safe workspace, measuring by weight, and describing what you smell.

1. 1.1What Perfume IsA short history, the anatomy of a fragrance, and how concentrations work57 min
2. 1.2Your Nose: How Smell Works and How to Train ItThe biology of smell, smelling technique, fatigue, and a daily training routine75 min
3. 1.3The Perfumer's Workspace and SafetyEquipment, solvents, storage, labeling, and the safety habits that come before any blending50 min
4. 1.4Weighing, Dilutions and Formula MathMaking standard dilutions, parts per thousand, and scaling a formula75 min
5. 1.5The Language of ScentOlfactive families, the fragrance pyramid, descriptors, and keeping a smelling journal82 min

The perfumer's palette, family by family: naturals and aroma chemicals, how each is made, how it smells and how it is used.

1. 2.1Naturals and SyntheticsHow raw materials are made, and why modern perfumery needs both kinds90 min
2. 2.2Citrus (Hesperidic) MaterialsBergamot, lemon, orange, mandarin, grapefruit, lime, and the aroma chemicals that support them79 min
3. 2.3The Noble Florals: Rose, Jasmine, Orange BlossomThe three pillars of floral perfumery, as naturals and as molecules80 min
4. 2.4More Florals: Muguet, Violet, Iris, Tuberose, Ylang and OthersThe 'mute' flowers that must be reconstructed, and the heady exotics75 min
5. 2.5Green, Aromatic and Spicy MaterialsHerbs, leaves, grasses and spices: freshness, tension and warmth85 min
6. 2.6Woods and RootsCedar, sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli, guaiac, oud, and the modern woody molecules80 min
7. 2.7Resins, Balsams, Amber and VanillaThe warm, sweet, long-lasting materials behind the amber family75 min
8. 2.8Musks and Animalic NotesFrom nitro musks to macrocycles, and the ethics and chemistry of animal notes75 min
9. 2.9Aldehydes, Fruits, Lactones and Marine NotesThe sparkle, juice, cream and air of modern perfumery75 min
10. 2.10Building Your OrganA staged starter palette, how to organize it, and how to study each material81 min

Combining materials into accords: two-material studies, reconstructed flowers, and the classic structures (cologne, fougère, chypre, amber) plus the modern ones.

1. 3.1What an Accord IsTwo-material studies, ratios, and blends that become new smells105 min
2. 3.2The Eau de CologneCitrus, orange tree, herbs: perfumery's oldest living structure68 min
3. 3.3Reconstructing a RoseBuilding a convincing rose from molecules, then bringing it to life78 min
4. 3.4Jasmine, Orange Blossom and White FloralsHeady, radiant and a little indolic: building the white-floral family73 min
5. 3.5Creating a Mute Flower: Lily-of-the-ValleyBuilding a flower that gives no extract, from memory and molecules63 min
6. 3.6The FougèreLavender, coumarin and moss: the structure behind a century of masculine perfumery63 min
7. 3.7The ChypreBergamot, florals, oakmoss, labdanum and patchouli: perfumery's most elegant architecture83 min
8. 3.8Amber (Oriental)Resins, vanilla and warmth: from Shalimar to modern ambers73 min
9. 3.9Modern Accords: Woody Amber, Clean Musk, Marine, GourmandThe structures behind today's bestsellers98 min

From brief to bottle: architecture, writing and changing formulas, evaluation, maceration and stability. Ends with two complete guided perfumes.

1. 4.1The Brief: From Idea to ConceptHow perfumes start, and how to turn a mood into materials88 min
2. 4.2Architecture: Volatility, Fixation and StructureHow a perfume is shaped over time, and how to control that shape80 min
3. 4.3Writing and Iterating FormulasMods, versioning, and the discipline of changing one thing at a time95 min
4. 4.4EvaluationStrips, skin, blind tests and panels: judging your work honestly85 min
5. 4.5Maceration, Finishing and StabilityFrom concentrate to finished perfume: dilution, aging, chilling, filtering and testing70 min
6. 4.6Project 1: A Modern Neroli CologneA guided composition, from brief to bottle, with three planned mods185 min
7. 4.7Project 2: A Rose-Woody Eau de ParfumComposing with modules: building a modern EdP from your own accords245 min

IFRA and allergen rules, compliance calculations, perfuming products, costing, sourcing, quality control and analyzing existing fragrances.

1. 5.1Regulation: IFRA, Allergens and Safety AssessmentThe rules that govern what a perfumer can use, and how much85 min
2. 5.2Compliance CalculationsRestricted materials, constituents of naturals, allergens, and maximum dosage60 min
3. 5.3Functional PerfumeryPerfuming soap, shampoo, lotion, candles and detergents83 min
4. 5.4Costing, Sourcing and Quality ControlWhat a formula costs, where materials come from, and how to trust what you buy105 min
5. 5.5Analyzing Fragrances and Studying the ClassicsGC-MS basics, olfactive analysis, and learning from great perfumes97 min

The great perfumers and their styles, overdoses and signature materials, advanced techniques, a capstone collection and the path ahead.

1. 6.1The Masters and Their StylesWhat great perfumers teach us about voice, restraint and daring97 min
2. 6.2Overdoses and Signature MaterialsWhen one material becomes the whole idea83 min
3. 6.3Advanced TechniquesTinctures, headspace thinking, illusions, contrast, texture and radiance112 min
4. 6.4Capstone: Your CollectionThree original fragrances, a creative dossier, and a final evaluation710 min
5. 6.5The Path ForwardCareers, continued training, ethics and the lifelong practice of a perfumer100 min