This is a great tool I use to mix my perfume oils in. LV made these because I needed something to hold up my vials while formulating and it’s interesting to note how much freer I am to create when not unconsciously preoccupied with spilling an accord I’d painstakingly worked on for weeks.
This got me thinking, how to avoid this as much as possible and since I like experimenting with many trials I asked LV for three bars of 10 vials each and look at the beauties he lovingly created for me!
I find 5 trials of an accord a nice easy number. Let’s say I’ve got a few ideas for a floral accord, I’ve got 3 florals in mind and I want to explore a “Floriental”, a woody floral and a powdery floral. So I grab my first formulation bar and drop five vials in there and get to work! There’s even a place for a larger vial for accords that have matured for more than a year that I may want to add. Using this method I’ve been able to increase dramatically my rate of experimentation — I have over 90 accords maturing! Less than half will make it past the evaluation stage but who cares, I’m creating!
Life’s wonderful pleasures: someone who cares about your happiness enough to make you stuff by hand! Love, love, love this tool and can’t imagine working without it now!
Her Two Scents 
How wonderful Maxine! And what an organised person you are. I hope other students will get inspired by your creativity. You are lucky to have a DIY husband who can make this… I can’t wait to see the perfumer’s organ next:)
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Thanks Isabelle! You’re right, I am very lucky and they really make creating so much more fun and relaxing.
Shhh, don’t tell him about my plans for a perfumer’s organ :)!
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Hi there, just love reading your blog. Do you know where I can purchase the wonderful square glass bottles you have on your blogs in your “perfuming making lesson 1, 6 and 8, series? They look like little Chanel bottles with the pipettes leaning on them. I am looking for a supply of that bottle. Appreciate your hard work, thank you, Vilma, USA.
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Hello Vilma!
Nice to have you around with us :). Aren’t those bottles the coolest?! I got them from Neroliane in France. Since I’m in Italy it’s cheaper for me to source a European supplier but I think they ship worldwide. The exact link is: http://www.neroliane.com/flacon-parfumerie-50ml.html. They only come in 50ml sizes and they’re not exactly cheap, but if you only want to do a few really special formulations these are beautiful!
Best of luck and happy perfuming!
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