Friday, September 30, 2022

The Syllabus for the CPD Certified Diploma Course in Natural & Botanical Perfumery



THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS to CPD Certified Diploma Course in Natural & Botanical Perfumery is the 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022

First Topic covers the History of Natural Perfumery

It covers perfume’s use through history and cultures up to the modern era of synthetic perfumery; including how perfume affected culture.

Topic Two Covers Safety

The highlights of this topic are safety precautions and resources for fragrance safety regulations.


The Third Topic covers the Chemistry of Natural Materials

The highlights of this topic are creating a Faux Carnation note and learning about scents, the brain, smells & memory.


The Fourth Topic Covers the Perfumers Studio & Resources

The highlights of this unit are how to grow a garden for perfumery and getting set up in your 'studio'.


Topic Five Covers Natural Raw Materials

The highlights of this unit are learning about the various types of notes and how to classify those notes within a composition.


Topic Six Covers Evaluating Raw Materials

The highlights of this topic are learning about dilutions and how to evaluate your natural perfumery materials and how to determine their uses in a perfume formulation.


Topic Seven Covers The Perfumers Stillroom

The highlights of this topic are learning how to create extractions using enfleurage and tinctures.


Topic Eight Covers Journaling

The highlight of this topic is Justine's perfume cookbook crammed with perfume recipes.


Topic Nine Covers A study in Fragrance Families

The highlights of this topic are getting into depth with the fragrance families, and learning how to recognise, create and discover your own favourites.
 
Topic Ten Covers Perfume Formulation

The highlights of this topic are learning the many different natural perfume methods, getting into and developing your own style as a perfumer and how to create custom perfume.


Topic Eleven Covers Branding and Packaging

The highlights of this topic are getting to bounce ideas off your teacher, and get feedback. At this stage in the course most students have built up significant rapport with their teacher. This is where the real magic begins to happen as you are guided through to the final topic.


Topic 12 Covers Finals

The highlights of this topic are writing your essay to accompany your final submission and getting your evaluation and certificate. Your teacher, Justine or Ane evaluate your submission and send you written feedback. This is the stage where your teacher becomes your true mentor and you begin to truly feel like a perfumers apprentice.



Wednesday, August 10, 2022

How Do I Become a Perfumer


The best thing you can do while training in perfumery is to experience as many smells as possible and build up your vocabulary. Take notes. Buy as many samples from good reputable suppliers as possible to know what the "real thing" smells like. 

Take notes, smell, take notes, smell. Create small things. 

Compose simple pieces. Explore each individual material in great depth. Explore different dilutions, explore different plant varieties, and from different countries. Travel and obtain raw materials from the source. (But always have knowledge before setting off of what the genuine article smells like. Bring a small amount with you to compare.) Bring your notebook and a small comparisons library with you everywhere. 

Grow fragrant plants. Do your own extractions. Make all different kinds of extractions. Record everything.

Build up your library, learn about how to store your materials and clean your equipment. Invest in base and middle note materials. Don't spend more on top notes materials (generally speaking) than you will use in 6 months. 

Practice Practice Practice. 

To find our more about courses running on The Natural Perfume Academy please visit the following links

Open date for our next course is the 7th September 2022

Friday, April 1, 2022

Last Call for Online CPD Certified Natural Perfumery Diploma Course

 

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Last call for applications to the Natural Perfume Academy Diploma Course. 

We have extended the deadline to the 3rd to facilitate students. Please see the website for more details.


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Sunday, February 6, 2022

Martina Vatovec - NPA Qualified Professional Natural Perfumer

 

THE Natural Perfume Academy

PRESENTS THE
FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT

Being a woman is a wonderful gift …

And together with this velvety scent, we reach and transcend all the boundaries of this world.

LEARN CREATE INSPIRE

This week's Friday Spotlight Feature is NPA Qualified &

Professional Natural Perfumer

Martina Vatovec 

Bio

Martina Vatovec, boutique perfumer with avant-garde concepts from Koper, Slovenia. Martina is a woman who lives in close contact with nature. She draws inspiration for life from nature, and nature’s colors and essences can be felt in her perfumes. After a sweet confectionery career, she found herself in the world of fragrances. She likes to use familiar scents that connect us with life experiences and the beauty of nature.

She seeks inspiration in minimally processed materials, small and sustainable production and the alchemical creation of perfumes.

She transmits positive feelings into the scents themselves and is happy to share the emotions she first experienced when I ventured into the world of creating botanical perfumes.

Martina’s perfumes are thoughtfully made from quality natural materials. Natural plant materials are carefully and ethically obtained and then selected and blended into noble balanced blends.

“At first I studied aromatherapy, then I found natural perfumery and I simply fell in love with it. I studied in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Israel and now with NPA. I have to say that I love The Natural Perfume Academy. You can work on your own time, not pressure, but a lot of inspiration.

Thank you for giving me the kick I needed to put my perfumes out in the world.”

Creations

MARTINA Botanical Perfumes comprises three 'aromatherapeutic' perfumes, which, in addition to smelling nice, also affect the emotions and create harmony of body and mind. With the right choice of essential oils we can find the way to well-being. Smell reaches the subconscious and affects emotions. Because the path from smell perception (nasal cavity) to the brain, where we process smell, is so short that we may not be able to control what is happening with our thoughts.

I SPREAD... JOY brings joy, concentration, tenderness and playfulness. Mandarin, sweet and bitter orange are the top notes of the perfume that evoke inner peace and serenity.

I FEEL… WOMAN is a perfume that emphasizes femininity. A floral perfume with the scent of roses, geraniums, rosewood and sandalwood will wrap women in charming and seductive fragrances and accentuate their elegance.

I LOVE... MYSELF brings the message that everything comes from love. What is so important are the feelings of love that we cultivate towards ourselves. If we love ourselves, we can love the whole world. Mighty love inspired this sweet oriental fragrance. It is topped with vanilla, bergamot, cardamom and rose. When you doubt your love for yourself, this perfume kisses and hugs you and reminds you that you are your own greatest treasure.

Martina’s creations can be found at Moika Parumi

Vision

Much more than a pleasant scent.

One drop, one pearl… so it is with botanical perfumes. Within each small bottle lie many treasures of nature, feelings and time.

Perfumes created exclusively from essential oils and other natural elements are unique, they are 'aromaterapeutic'. Martina invites you to choose the beauty of the right scent for the right moment. Because with their power, you choose your best self.

Martina’s creations can be found at Moika Parfumi

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