Part 2 of 2: A fortnight ago I started the process of trying to make homemade perfume using flowers, herbs and some leaves from the garden. This week, we're going to look at the results of that experiment and the process involved in trying to create two fully finished and bottled up fragrances.
First up just a little refresher on what I picked from the garden to add to the first perfume, which was made using jojoba carrier oil designed for perfumery. Into the oil I added sweet pea, sweet alysum, chamomile and marigolds flowers along with lemon balm herb, lavender leaves. I sniffed this concoction after a week and the scent was quite light so I added in some marjoram leaves and flowers, rose petals and geranium leaves donated by a relative, and had a bit of lavender essential oil on hand to add in the final stage for an extra kick. 
The second fragrance had a base of perfumer’s alcohol with chamomile flowers, mint, rosemary, torn up tomato leaves and blackcurrant leaves, to which I added some myrrh absolute at the bottling up stage.