working with scents you don't like

[Rosey]

So when you're making soap with a fragrance you hate, how do you judge it? Find someone who likes that smell or do you just not do it at all?

I realized last night that I really don't like clove and now my whole house wreaks of it. I worked with a lady who would make her own "perfume" and I use that term loosely. It stunk so bad that we used to have to just hold our breath until she passed(and then some) and I had never smelt clove before and yeah..that's what it is..

The soap itself doesn't smell so strong but something in my kitchen does. Gonna have to figure it out but it may be the bowls...eww.

 

[starduster]

Avoid it if possible

Rosey if it's a financial imperative do it.

But other wise I really feel that to bless our lives and all that is arround us I trully believe that only those things that are totally beautiful to all our senses are the things that if we have around us will enhance our very core of body, heart and Soul.
Some times we overlook the fact that experiences pleasing to our nose are to draw us too them and the bad ones away.
Our busy material existances sometimes warp our natural instincts.
Gut feelings etc.
When a soap is handled by a person ,I believe the energies of it's creator will shine through.
Soap with love.
Thats how I see things.
Mary

 

[Rosey]

lol yeah. I guess I'll just see what happens, maybe I can ship that clove off to someone else. I'll try it in another combo to see.
Then again, i'm so picky when it comes to things like that.

And I found the source... I forgot to wash out the bowl i put the EOs in..nice...I've outdone myself.

 

[Tabitha]

I won't use a scent I do not like. I can't sell it, what will I write in the description? "Here is a soap I find nausiating but have been told by others it's great, so buy a few bars won't you :roll: ?" Can't do it...

 

[Rosey]

Yeah i have a feeling it's going to be mango, papaya, lavender, and some fo's for me.

 

[abigtroutt]

I make soaps with EO's and FO's I dont like..... :? My wife loves tea tree and I cant stand the smell. But for her I'll make anything !!

 

[starduster]

Sweet smell of life

I won't use a scent I do not like. I can't sell it, what will I write in the description? "Here is a soap I find nausiating but have been told by others it's great, so buy a few bars won't you :roll: ?" Can't do it...

Well put Tabitha.

I think Big trout is a sweety for doing the ones he does't like for his wife. Thats a hero :wink:

 

[andreabadgley]

I make soaps with EO's and FO's I dont like..... :? My wife loves tea tree and I cant stand the smell. But for her I'll make anything !!

AWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! That makes me smile

 

[7053joanne]

Im use an FO that is making me dryheave....but it's one of my best sellers...and my friends all love it..so i keep making it. Terrible

 

[wonderland]

Im use an FO that is making me dryheave....but it's one of my best sellers...and my friends all love it..so i keep making it. Terrible

let me guess....



i used to make m&p soaps and everyone in the office had to have their bi-weekly dose of butt naked. i liked the scent at first but good grief, enough is enough!

 

[beachgurl]

I HATE patch ... but I make it because it sells well ... it cures out in the garage :mrgreen:

 

[TessC]

I HATE patch ... but I make it because it sells well ... it cures out in the garage :mrgreen:

That's the one I'm dreading already. As friends and family find out that I'm making soap, they're asking for their favorite fragrances, and I'll be glad to make them whatever they want. I'm a loooong way from being ready to sell anything, so it's all freebies for the people who are willing to be guinea pigs.

The problem is that one of my friends loves patchouli. She has incense, candles, perfume, the whole nine yards, and I absolutely hate that scent, it makes me gag a little if I get enough of a whiff of it. Oy. I don't honestly think I'll be able to do it. Besides the fact that it makes me queasy, I can't tell a good patchouli from a bad one, it all smells like a big ol' pile of stench to me, so I wouldn't know if it was right or not.

 

[honor435]

So when you're making soap with a fragrance you hate, how do you judge it? Find someone who likes that smell or do you just not do it at all?

I realized last night that I really don't like clove and now my whole house wreaks of it. I worked with a lady who would make her own "perfume" and I use that term loosely. It stunk so bad that we used to have to just hold our breath until she passed(and then some) and I had never smelt clove before and yeah..that's what it is..

The soap itself doesn't smell so strong but something in my kitchen does. Gonna have to figure it out but it may be the bowls...eww.

I sometimes make smells i dont really like, but that may sell. My hubby complains about MOST of the smells! Im going to make him some "curve".
I find that cp doesnt smell up my house as much as hp, not sure why?

 

[Maria]

It seems like every time I get a request for a scent, it is one I don't like. The ones I like, it seems the smell goes away quickly but the ones I don't like linger forever.
Cucumber Aloe is currently my top seller, it reeks. Sandalwood is another customer favorite, even worse than the cucumber aloe. Pine smells like pine sol on steroids. Lemon verbena smells like lemon pledge. Cherry blossom is not great either.
Clove is popular with both men and women and doesn't really bother me. Orange and clove together is very popular and smells nice.
Patchouli is arriving next week along with a few other requests. I doubt I will like it either.

 

[Tabitha]

I HATE patch ... but I make it because it sells well ... it cures out in the garage :mrgreen:

That's the one I'm dreading already. As friends and family find out that I'm making soap, they're asking for their favorite fragrances, and I'll be glad to make them whatever they want. I'm a loooong way from being ready to sell anything, so it's all freebies for the people who are willing to be guinea pigs.

The problem is that one of my friends loves patchouli. She has incense, candles, perfume, the whole nine yards, and I absolutely hate that scent, it makes me gag a little if I get enough of a whiff of it. Oy. I don't honestly think I'll be able to do it. Besides the fact that it makes me queasy, I can't tell a good patchouli from a bad one, it all smells like a big ol' pile of stench to me, so I wouldn't know if it was right or not.

It gags me too, I can tolerate it if it's a blend, maybe orange & pat or raspberry & pat to mellow it out.

 

[honor435]

I HATE patch ... but I make it because it sells well ... it cures out in the garage :mrgreen:

That's the one I'm dreading already. As friends and family find out that I'm making soap, they're asking for their favorite fragrances, and I'll be glad to make them whatever they want. I'm a loooong way from being ready to sell anything, so it's all freebies for the people who are willing to be guinea pigs.

The problem is that one of my friends loves patchouli. She has incense, candles, perfume, the whole nine yards, and I absolutely hate that scent, it makes me gag a little if I get enough of a whiff of it. Oy. I don't honestly think I'll be able to do it. Besides the fact that it makes me queasy, I can't tell a good patchouli from a bad one, it all smells like a big ol' pile of stench to me, so I wouldn't know if it was right or not.

It gags me too, I can tolerate it if it's a blend, maybe orange & pat or raspberry & pat to mellow it out.

I do not like pachouli or sandalwood either, but people request it, do cp and cover it fast and cure it somewhere away from where you are?

 

[MikeInPdx]

I hated patch for years myself....until I smelled a soap from a soaper friend on another board. She changed my mind, at least in her case.