potpourris | potpourri classifications | potpourri tools | potpourri formulas | simmering potpourris

Use these potpourri pages to learn how to make potpourri: potpourris, potpourri classifications, potpourri formulas, simmering potpourris, and potpourri tools. Make other aromatic products as well including aromatic bath salts using aromatic plants and oils. Use the potpourris to scent rooms and drawers as well as to repel moths.

Potpourris are produced by mixing aromatic barks, flowers, gums, leaves, resins, roots, seeds, and woods. If blended correctly, a potpourri should last for months. They can be used in a multitude of ways – scent the air, closets, drawers and stationery, help decorate a room using potpourri-filled baskets or bowls or use as gifts. Potpourris can be blended to repel moths and other insects as well.

Potpourri Types 
The dry method and the moist or wet method are the two ways to make potpourris. Fresh fragrant materials that ferment in a crock for a few weeks are used in the moist method. Wet potpourris keep their aroma a long time, but do not look good. Dry potpourris are made of dried, crisp, fragrant materials that deliver aroma as well as appeal.

Knowing about perfumery and practice in blending aromas helps with making potpourri formulas. Create all kinds of aromatic products including aromatic bath salts, colognes or incense. Learn the base blends for easier experimenting and creation of formulas for any product. Since there are no perfumery schools, experimentation is necessary. Work with formulas, blend, and analyzing the aroma differences in combinations. It is easier to divide aromas into classifications to learn how to create potpourri formulas.

See potpourri formulas for a base blend in each category (fragrance classifications) with five variations of each blend.

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