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Making a natural essential oil perfume is an art best learned through experience. I'll give you a few basics here and point you to more detailed perfume-making sources and recipes.
Aromatherapy: A Complete Guide to the Healing Art has a detailed chapter on blending perfumes and lists the following required supplies:
Typically, a perfume made with alcohol is about 15 to 30 percent essential oil, 70 to 85 percent alcohol ethyl, and zero to 10 percent distilled water by fluid volume, according to the ACHS Perfumery Manual from the Australasian College of Healthcare Sciences.
However, you can also make perfumes using carrier oils without alcohol or water.
Something you want to take into consideration when blending essential oils perfume recipes is the concept of essential oil notes. "Note" refers to the evaporation rate of a fragrance, which depends on its specific weight and energy. The three notes are:
In general, you want to avoid mixing oils that all have the same note, and instead use all three notes, but there are no hard and fast rules.
The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy has a section on making your own perfume and eau de cologne, including quite a bit of information on aromatherapy notes.
Here's an aromatherapy perfume recipe:
Blend ingredients in a clean bottle. Use as desired.
Source: Aromatherapy: A Complete Guide to the Healing Art
Solid Balsam Essential Oil Perfume
Source: Aromahead
You can also find essential oil perfume blends at Esoteric Oils and in the booklet 25 Simple Perfume Recipes with Essential Oils by Sharon Falsetto, a professional aromatherapist.
Photo Credit: Angela Andriot [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons