Justine, I want to express my gratitude for your guidance and leadership as an outstanding and knowledgeable teacher. Your Beginner course played a crucial role in shaping me into the designer I am today, and I can’t thank you enough for sharing your in-depth knowledge and expertise. You are truly number one in my book. Before finding you and the Natural Perfume Academy, I felt lost and unsure about my skills, however, under your guidance, everything clicked for me. I began to think deeply about every step I took and developed a deeper understanding of scent in everything around me. A.L.
Welcome to the aromatic realm of natural perfumery! If you're a crafter, aromatherapist, or simply passionate about the art of scent creation, you're in for a treat. In this blog post, we'll explore the captivating world of the CPD Certified NPA Natural Perfumery Diploma Course, designed to elevate your skills and knowledge in the fragrance industry.
Who Should Apply:
Are you an independent natural botanical perfumer, an in-house company perfumer, or perhaps an essential oil producer seeking ethical practices? This course is tailor-made for you. From beauty therapists to retail outlets, anyone serious about stepping up to the professional level in natural perfumery will find immense value in this program.
Recognition and Accreditation:
Rest assured, the Natural Perfume Academy holds prestigious recognition from The CPD Certification Service, ensuring the highest standards of professional development. With accreditation in conformity to continuing professional development principles, our course offers a globally recognised diploma.
Benefits for Your Business:
For existing perfumery businesses, our distance-learning course provides a cost-effective and flexible training solution. Gain invaluable insights into ethical production practices, elevate sales performance, and support sustainability efforts within the industry. Whether you're a distributor or a natural perfumer, this course equips you with the essential skills to thrive in the niche market.
Personal and Professional Growth:
Unleash your creativity and deepen your understanding of natural perfumery with our comprehensive curriculum. From the art and science of scent composition to practical applications and management, each module is designed to empower you. Whether you're a beginner or an industry professional, our course caters to all skill levels, providing the necessary requirements to succeed in this specialised field.
Flexible Learning Experience:
Say goodbye to rigid schedules and hello to flexibility! Our online course offers 24/7 access, allowing you to learn at your own pace. With no more than 2 to 6 hours of study per week, spread over nine months, you can seamlessly balance your learning with other commitments.
Enrolment and Payment Options:
Ready to take the plunge? Enrolment is open year-round, offering you the flexibility to start whenever you're ready. Choose from convenient payment options, including discounted upfront fees or monthly instalments, to suit your budget and schedule.
Conclusion:
Begin your fragrant journey with the CPD Certified NPA Natural Perfumery Diploma Course and unlock the secrets of sustainable and ethical perfumery. Whether you're a seasoned crafter or an aspiring perfumer, this course promises to enrich your knowledge, enhance your skills, and ignite your passion for natural scent creation.
Are you ready to dive in? Enroll today and let your aromatic adventure begin!
Click here for information about our Diploma Course:
Are you ready to take your perfume skills to the next level?
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our highly anticipated Advanced Perfumers Workshops and Master Classes! Written by Justine Crane and geared for the seasoned perfumer, this immersive learning experience is designed to elevate your understanding of the art of natural and botanical perfumery. Plus, we have an exclusive limited-time offer just for you!
Discover the Advanced Perfumers Workshops & Master Classes:
Our workshops and master classes offer a unique opportunity to delve deeper into the world of natural and botanical perfumery. Led by industry expert and renowned natural perfumer, Justine Crane, these sessions will unlock advanced techniques, explore working with rare ingredients, and provide invaluable insights into creating captivating scents. With an advanced curriculum and hands-on exercises, you'll enhance your skills and expand your creative horizons. Our course has strict pre-requisites, these can be found on the Course Application Page.
Special Introductory Offer: 40% Off!
To celebrate the launch, we're offering an irresistible introductory offer. For a limited time only, enjoy a massive 40% discount on the enrolment fee until September 30th at 12 midnight. This exclusive offer allows you to access all the workshops and master classes at a significantly reduced price.
Why Join the Advanced Perfumers Workshops & Master Classes?
1. Elevate Your Craft: Deepen your knowledge and skills in natural botanical perfumery with advanced techniques and industry insights.
2. Expert Guidance: Learn from experienced natural perfumers who will share their expertise and guide you every step of the way.
3. Explore Rare Ingredients: Gain access to a wide range of exclusive and rare ingredients, unlocking new scent possibilities.
4. Hands-on Experience: Engage in practical exercises and experiments to enhance your understanding and application of perfumery.
5. Connect with Peers: Interact with a community of like-minded individuals, fostering collaboration, inspiration, and support.
How to Enrol:
Enrolling in the Advanced Perfumers Workshops & Master Classes is simple, there are however strict pre-requisites. Visit the application page of our website and see if you are eligible to apply. Offer ends September 30th at 12 midnight, so don't miss out on this incredible opportunity!
Embark on a Perfume Journey:
Join us on this extraordinary perfume journey and unlock your true potential as a natural perfumer. The Advanced Perfumers Workshops & Master Classes 2.0 will empower you to create unique and mesmerizing all natural scents that captivate the senses. Don't let this opportunity slip away - enroll now and embrace the artistry of natural and botanical perfumery like never before.
What are Horizontal Accords and Vertical Accords, how to create them. What are enhancing extending notes in terms of accords and horizontal and vertical studies. Horizontal trials and vertical trials and how to build enhancing, core, and extending notes, and combine them to create an accord.
A little snippet of natural perfumery information by Justine Crane, how to build accords in natural perfumery (my favourite subject)!
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We find that the need for adaptable facilities for natural perfumery training growing due to the fact that in the increasingly restrictive environment, independent natural perfumers need tailor-made training geared towards regulatory compliance and safety. It is also the case that apprenticeships in perfumery involving the sole use of natural materials are difficult if not impossible to secure. Traveling long distances to attend courses is highly impractical and these days unnecessary. Furthermore in light of the worldwide expansion of the natural botanical perfume industry there are increasing demands that natural perfumers be capable and highly trained.
• Evaluate the odors of naturally aromatic botanical essences. • Set production safety standards and ensure they are adhered to. • Source or produce ethical pure botanicals and review production data in order to ensure that they comply with standards. • Determine the quality of prepared materials by visiting compounding and distillation areas. • Evaluating perfume blends for specific characteristics, such as odor, body, harmony, strength, and permanence. • Smell and evaluate trials from the previous days. • Reject batches that do not meet criteria and record. • Approve batches for finishing, sign off and record. • Assign priority levels based on the type of project and meet deadlines. • Adjust formulas of samples needing improvement based on earlier evaluations and briefings. • Meet with clients or team evaluators; discuss which samples are ready and which need more work.
Broaden your creative educational horizons through our 9 Month CPD Certified Diploma Course in Natural Perfumery opens 15 March 2023 For more information please visit the following links.
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.
For more information please visit the following links.
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
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.
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.
If you are a graduate of NPA and creating natural perfumes professionally get in touch with us and share your journey and see your name in NPA Hall of Fame.