Homemade Perfume : Create Exquisite, Naturally Scented Products to Fill Your Life with Botanical Aromas

Create Custom Perfumes the Natural Way

This unprecedented, comprehensive guide from renowned perfumer Anya McCoy is an inspiring resource for anyone interested in creating artisanal perfume at home. Discover simple step-by-step methods for making perfume without harsh chemicals. Jump right in, using local plants and common household ingredients. Soon you’ll be building your own scent collection and creating unforgettable gifts for friends and family.

This book covers a variety of techniques for capturing fragrances from natural materials, making it easy to choose the project that works for your schedule and experience level. Source your own organically grown botanicals, and enjoy the earth-friendly benefits of creating your own essential oils and extractions sustainably. Make your own all-natural perfumes, room and linen sprays, body butters, massage oils, and more. Explore the nuances of scent blending to create delightful fragrances that are unique to you. Packed with easy methods and expert guidance, this book will become an indispensable reference as you grow into a confident scent designer.

“In Homemade Perfume, Anya showcases both her depth of knowledge of natural fragrant materials and her comprehensive experience in working with them, showing us how to produce wonderfully fragrant oils, tinctures, butters, and more.”
— Robert Tisserand, founder of the Tisserand Institute

“This is an essential guide for every student of natural perfumery.”
— Mindy Green, aromatherapist, herbalist, and coauthor of Aromatherapy

“Anya is a master of natural perfumery and highly attuned to its many layers of craft. Those drawn to the art of weaving exquisite botanical essences into swoon-worthy fragrances will benefit richly from her insight and guidance.”
— Alexandra Balahoutis, botanical perfumer and founder of Strange Invisible Perfumes

“I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Anya McCoy for over 17 years, and what she doesn’t know about the world of natural perfumery isn’t worth knowing.”
— Grant Osborne, founder and editor of basenotes.net

"In Homemade Perfume, [Anya McCoy] gives you step by step instructions that are very clear, and with their help, you can make your own essential oils, tinctures, even hydrosols! ... The book is really nicely produced, clear, with a large number of photographs so you not only have instructions, but also have visual references to help you to understand exactly what to do, and how to do it in sequence. ... You really do get comprehensive advice here, and it is by far the best book I have seen on this subject."
—Blacknall Allen's A Perfume Blog

"Homemade Perfume is a rather comprehensive DIY ‘treatise’’ on the art of traditional plant extraction methods, taking you through 6 clearly structured chapters, supported by beautiful pictures. Anyone with the slightest interest in the traditional methods of perfume-making will appreciate how easy it is to apply the guidelines that Anya McCoy generously shares thanks to her 40+ years of experience."—Cafleurebon

"With a few well chosen plants for harvesting, and a few easy to gather tools, homemade perfume (and other scented products) is made beautifully possible step by step in the book Homemade Perfume by Anya McCoy."—Fragrantica

"If I ever were to tackle a tincture, Homemade Perfume by pioneering natural perfumer Anya McCoy of Anya's Garden is where I’d start. In a nutshell, Homemade Perfume is a primer on how to extract scent from botanicals and turn it into personal and home fragrance. McCoy describes the basics of composing a fragrance — for liquid perfume she recommends that a composition be about 20 percent top notes, 50 percent middle notes, and 30 percent base notes, for instance — but also provides her own straightforward, tried-and-true recipes."
— Now Smell This