Perfume Videos
How perfume is made, bottled and blended — plus a full perfumery lecture and the BBC Perfume Documentary.
The fragrance that you wear can make or break your day. Beauty industry companies and influencers can help you learn about perfume scents, manufacturing and popular brands using video explanations — and perfume is a subject that rewards watching, because so much of it is process: ingredients becoming a blend, a blend becoming a bottled product, a bottled product becoming the scent somebody wears. Start with how perfume is made, then work through bottling, blending and a full perfumery lecture.
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Perfume Videos to Watch
From a Perfumer's Secrets to a Full Lecture
The shorter videos cover the making end of the trade. How Perfume is Made — A Perfumer's Secrets opens the perfumer's workshop; the bottling video follows a finished fragrance into its bottle; and the blending video shows how to blend your own perfume, the closest a viewer gets to composing a scent rather than choosing one. Let's Talk Scents with Heart Evangelista takes the wearer's side of the subject — the scents themselves and how they are talked about by the people who love them.
Do you have time for a full lecture on perfume? The ABC's of Perfumery session recreates the first step in “The ABCs of Perfumery”: a systematic method of odour classification built on the premise that there may be such things as “prime smells” in the same way we talk about prime colours, as in a rainbow (spectrum) or the RGB red-green-blue system. It is the most systematic video on this page — the one to watch when you want to understand how perfumers organize the raw material of scent itself, rather than any single finished fragrance.
The BBC Perfume Documentary
For the long view, the BBC Perfume Documentary runs to three parts, linked above in order. A documentary treatment suits perfume: the subject spans ancient raw materials, modern chemistry, famous perfume houses and the marketing of scent as luxury, and three episodes give each of those its room. Watch the parts in sequence — each builds on the last — and then head back to the Fragrances guide to learn more about perfume types and concentrations.
Common Questions
What can you learn from perfume videos?
Perfume videos explain scents, manufacturing and popular brands on camera: how perfume is made, how it is bottled, and how to blend your own. The fragrance that you wear can make or break your day, and video explanations from beauty industry companies and influencers are the clearest way to learn the subject before you buy or blend.
Which perfume videos does this page collect?
Eight videos: How Perfume is Made — A Perfumer's Secrets; Let's Talk Scents with Heart Evangelista; a look at how perfume is bottled; a guide to blending your own perfume; The ABC's of Perfumery lecture from Perfumers World; and the three parts of the BBC Perfume Documentary.
What is The ABC's of Perfumery about?
It is a full lecture session from Perfumers World that recreates the first step in The ABCs of Perfumery — a systematic method of odour classification built on the premise that there may be such things as 'prime smells', in the same way we talk about prime colours in a rainbow spectrum or the RGB red-green-blue system.