Perfume Formulas The Perfumer's Formulation Bulletin

If you are one of the following you are sure to want the empowerment that The Perfumers Formulation Bulletin offers;

• Independent or Freelance perfumers - extra source of ideas broadening your expertise and empowering you to take on more interesting projects.
• Young Companies - like having experienced team of consultant perfumers effectively working for you for less than a Starbucks coffee per formula.
• Established perfumery companies - an alternative source of creativity and a great way for younger perfumers to see how other perfumers formulate without the risk of opening your precious in-house formulations.
• Private Custom perfume creators can learn from commercial formulations and build upon them to create original fragrances for their customers.
• Advanced perfumery students can study techniques and see how other perfumers create effects in formulations to develop and widen their own skills and experience at an incredibly fast rate.

How are the Bulletins sent to me?
The Bulletins are sent out by email as password protected portable document files (.pdf) within 2 working days of your confirmed order.
The sample sets are shipped by mail or courier according to your checkout choices. More details on shipping Here.

I dont believe anyone ever gives formulations like this away!
We arent giving them away that's why theres a fee! It lets us focus on what we like doing, creating new formulas and allows you to focus on the 3 Ms, manufacturing, marketing and making money.

Are these Real Formulations or just demonstration formulas?
These are real formulations that can be made today. They are NOT like the "demonstration" formulations sometimes available from websites or perfumery books that cannot realistically be made because they contain some material no longer produced, with 10% of floral absolutes, only specialities from multinational companies, or some long since IFRA prohibited materials.
While acting as consultant perfumers to many clients it is clear that many of their needs are similar but if we privately act as consultants for them on their individual projects, it is expensive and we have to plan on recovering a minimum of $100/hour, which for the independent perfumer or growing company is a major expense. So, utilizing the fact that many of the requirements have areas in common we have been able to set up a system to share these costs and give you great value for money.
We know of a company that spent $250,000 for a package of 250 formulas to start a new company, thats $1,000 per formula! You would get more than this in just 10 issues for a fraction of a fraction, of the price!

I really want everything in the bulletins but its just too expensive to buy all.
In this case opt for the sample sets and decide which Bulletins are interesting for you. Alternatively plan to take one bulletin per month and that should be more manageable. It would take you many more times the $3.00/formula just in materials alone to develop each one yourself without even taking in account anything for the time and experience factors required. Remember you only have to utilise one of the hundreds of formulas available to recover your investment many, many times over.

Why are you giving all the secrets of the trade away?.
Really none of these are secrets - if you work for a big company under a mentor all these things should be available but otherwise you are on the outside. Even though the formulation you see and the tips you get are enough to set up a perfumery company you will still want to be creative and make your compounds for your local market and customers requirements. However, you won't be disadvantaged by not having the limited number of perfumes to offer that you can only produce yourself. We see this rather than giving secrets away as helping level the playing field for the independent perfumer.

I don't need all the information can I just get the formulations I want from a list?
No, outside of the Bulletins themselves we do not disclose or sell individual formulations ever and will not separate the contents of the formulation bulletins. The reason that we can do this so cheaply is that it comes as a package. It really costs hundreds of dollars to develop each formulation and GCMS ($1x,xxxs for a whole Bulletin) but you pay less than $3.00 per formula or GCMS. We know that some of them you will not need yourself but please don't overlook the lessons to be learned from each formula in the set.

I don't have the materials to make up the formulations.
Most of the materials in the formulations we can supply, so these formulas are not just theoretical formulations but ones you really can make yourself. You can also get ready made samples of the formulas for a small payment so you can see if you would like to invest in making it yourself (NB. Ordering corresponding Sample Set is the best value.)

Can I order the compounds in the bulletin ready made in bulk?
Yes. First we suggest getting the sample sets to see which formulations you like, or individual 7 gram samples of the pure compound are $10 each. We can then quote you on any quantity 10grams to 1,000 Kg lots. Note the sample sets are 20% in DPG for evaluation puposes, but the compounds are pure compound the same as the formulation in the Bulletin, no dilution.

Is it ethical to show commercial formulas?
These formulations have been developed especially for the bulletin and are not used by anyone else. Our mission is to make creative perfumery available to a much wider audience and that requires that you have access to information, materials and techniques that until today were only available to bigger companies. The bulletin will increase the professionalism of smaller manufacturers and through the dissemination of knowledge and education inherent in the formulations and discussions of them will lead to increased product and consumer safety. This perhaps, in our own small way will help to address some of the ridiculous knee-jerk reactions based on bad science evident in recent European directives, which if continued may ultimately lead to less safe products. We think that whilst many will use the formulations directly yet others will tweak and develop them to even greater levels of creativity "by standing on the shoulders of those who came before" (Issaac Newton).

*GCMS
GCMS is the abbreviation for Gas Chromatograpy–Mass Spectrometry a method of separating (the GC part) perfume compounds (concentrate) into their individual chemical components and identifying them (the MS part). It gives powerful insight into a perfumes structure and helps to understand how it works for study or re-creation.