To begin, use:

 

3 parts fragrance /essential oils to 7 parts DPGF.  Stir or shake gently in a large non-reactive container (keep separate form eating utensils). Dispense into a UV resistant cobalt or amber bottle. Fill your oil bottle 3/4 full of diffuser fragrance and insert reeds. If you find the scent is not strong enough, increase the amount of fragrance oil by one part and re-mix. Do not recommend more than 50% fragrance oil to 50% DPG. You may also mix essential oils in the same manner as fragrance oils.

 

Blending notes:

  

If you find that your mix is too thick and will not wick up your reeds, try diluting the oil with a small amount of either formulators or perfumers alcohol. They recommend using up to 10% in alcohol to make your mix more wickable.

 

These measurements are in parts instead of exact measurements. We do this so you can easily increase or decrease a formula to suit your current need. To increase the amount you make, change units. For a small batch, use drops/ teaspoons, for a medium use ounces. For a larger batch, use pounds.

 

Certain essential oils, generally citrus oils, present a clouded product when mixed with DPG. While not aesthetically pleasing, the clouding will not effect the scent or its throw. 

Oils that contain the aromachemical vanillin, such as some Vanilla Bean fragrance oil, will become brown the longer they are exposed to air. This will not effect the scent or its throw.

 

Our Notes: This is not in the published recipe above, perfumes (recipe in another guide we wrote) mention leaving it sit for some period of time, might be two weeks. So scent works itself. 

CAVEAT..we are told if you use this formula you may find reeds do not work. That was the experience of  a candle company that used a formula from some other candle company selling reeds. They were going to sell diffusers on the web and they discontinued this line after spending all that money. We do not recommend you make your own diffuser oils. You do not have the right recipe IMHO to start. Too costly to get ingredients (shipping), too hard to get perfumer's alcohol, ingredients in the formula, like DPGF, not readily found locally. Some of other missing ingredients not easy to titrate. Some ingredients will ruin your formula. Some go rancid. Need separate mixing bowls than you eat from.  Each formula needs to be blended and tested. You need different oils and essential oils to get a range of scents. What happens if you do not like?

Our  formula is proprietary and cannot be disclosed.

Please see our other blogs for our discussion on reeds.