Fragrance oils are made up of various scents, referred to as top, middle and bottom notes. These notes come together to create a complete and complex fragrance. Designed to smell fantastic alone, fragrance oils can also be blended together to create your own custom blend. Blending fragrance oils together is a lot of fun, but it can sometimes take a little trial and error to get the blends “just right.” If you’d like to learn more about fragrance blending, click here to read my tips and tricks.
Every month, our team comes up with more than 15 scent blends for each fragrance of the month sample (did you know you get a free .5 oz. fragrance oil sample with each Bramble Berry order?) The team and I chose 4-5 of our favorite blends each month to spotlight. Below are our favorite scent blends for the first six months of 2015. You can always find these blends along with a tutorial on the “Sample of the Month” page, which is located on the right hand side of the Bramble Berry homepage.
We are working on blends for next month’s sample of the month, Vanilla Rosewood Fragrance Oil!
To make each blend, our team starts out with “one part” of the sample of the month fragrance oil. Then, other equal parts of other fragrances are added. The fragrance oils are added one “part” at a time to find the right balance. The term “part” simply refers to any unit of measure. We recommend measuring parts by weight, because some fragrance oils are more dense than others. Click here to read more about weight vs. volume. When formulating scent blends, we use .1 ounces as our “one part.” That way if you don’t like the blend, you are not wasting a large amount of fragrance oil. Once you find a blend you like, you can increase the “parts” to represent larger amounts of fragrance oil such as 1 or 2 full ounces.
Below are our favorite fragrance blends made with the winter and spring sample of the month fragrances. These fragrances are: Lavender & Cedar, Espresso, Crisp Cotton, Island Escape, Pure Honey and this month’s fragrance, Ginger Patchouli. Our team looks for blends where the fragrances complement each other to create a completely new scent, while still being able to pick out notes from each fragrance within the blend. If you have discovered a new blend that you love, we would love to hear it!
Lavender & Cedar Fragrance Oil Blends (January 2015)
3Â parts Lavender & Cedar Fragrance Oil
1Â part Bonsai Fragrance Oil
1 part Carnation Fragrance Oil
3Â parts Lavender & Cedar Fragrance Oil
1Â part Crisp Apple Rose Fragrance Oil
3Â parts Lavender & Cedar Fragrance Oil
1Â part Black Tea Fragrance Oil
1 part Mahogany Fragrance Oil
2Â parts Lavender & Cedar Fragrance Oil
1Â part Spring Meadow Fragrance Oil
1 part Lavender & Cedar Fragrance Oil
1 part Heavenly Honeysuckle Fragrance Oil
Espresso Fragrance Oil Blends (February 2015, click here to see the project)
2 parts Espresso Fragrance Oil
2 parts Dark Rich Chocolate Fragrance Oil
1 part Cinnamon Sugar Fragrance Oil
1 part Espresso Fragrance Oil
1 part Island Coconut Fragrance Oil
1 part Coconut Cream Fragrance Oil
1 part Espresso Fragrance Oil
1 part Vanilla Select Fragrance Oil
1 part Espresso Fragrance Oil
1 part Moonlight Pomegranate Fragrance Oil
1 part Crisp Anjou Pear Fragrance Oil
Crisp Cotton Fragrance Oil Blends (March 2015, click here to see the project)
1 part Crisp Cotton Fragrance Oil
1 part Moroccan Mint Fragrance Oil
1 part Hello Sweet Thang Fragrance Oil
1 part Crisp Cotton Fragrance Oil
1 part Spring Meadow Fragrance Oil
2 parts Earl Grey Lemon Fragrance Oil
1 part Crisp Cotton Fragrance Oil
1 part Tobacco and Bay Leaf Fragrance Oil
2 parts Crisp Cotton Fragrance Oil
1 part Green Tea and Cucumber Fragrance Oil
2 parts Green Tea Fragrance Oil
Island Escape Fragrance Oil Blends (April 2015, click here to see the project)
2 parts Island Escape Fragrance Oil
1 part Jasmine Dreams Fragrance Oil
1 part Winter Gardenia Fragrance Oil
2 parts Island Escape Fragrance Oil
1 part Mahogany Fragrance Oil
2 parts Island Escape Fragrance Oil
1 part 10x Orange Essential Oil
1 part Coconut Citrus Sorbet Fragrance Oil
Pure Honey Fragrance Oil Blends (May 2015, click here to see the project)
2 parts Pure Honey Fragrance Oil
2 parts Blueberry Fragrance Oil
1 part Vanilla Select Fragrance Oil
3 parts Pure Honey Fragrance Oil
1 part Lilac Fragrance Oil
1 part White Rose Fragrance Oil
1 part Pure Honey Fragrance Oil
2 parts Sensuous Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
2 parts Pure Honey Fragrance Oil
1 part Butter Cream and Snickerdoodle Fragrance Oil
Ginger Patchouli Fragrance Oil Blends (June 2015, click here to see the project)
2 parts Ginger Patchouli Fragrance Oil
1 part Vanilla Select Fragrance Oil
1 part Energy Fragrance Oil
3 parts Ginger Patchouli Fragrance Oil
2 parts Sensuous Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
1 part Bramble Berry’s Made to Measure Type Fragrance Oil
1 part Ginger Patchouli Fragrance Oil
1 part Baby Powder Fragrance Oil
1 part Mango Mango Fragrance Oil
1 part Ginger Patchouli Fragrance Oil
1 part Moroccan Mint Fragrance Oil
Be on the lookout for a project and fragrance blends featuring Vanilla Rosewood Fragrance Oil in July. The Vanilla Rosewood Fragrance Oil was a winner of the Fall 2014 S.O.A.P. Panel, and features notes of cedar, warm vanilla and musk. It’s a great woodsy scent! Do you have a fragrance blend that you absolutely love? I would love to hear it!
