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10 Tips to Get Inspired "as a Perfumer"
by: Dr. Ziad El-Desoki "The Founder of Perfumer Archive" | Published: May 18, 2025
Sometimes we get stuck.
You can’t finish what you’re creating, your mind feels drained, and you hit a creative block.
This can happen in the middle of the process; or even right at the beginning.
For me, I found the secret to avoiding this: "let your senses be inspired."
In this post, I’ll share 10 quick tips to help you overcome creative block 👇
1. Listen:
Listen to classical music before sleeping, non-perfumers' descriptions of fragrance ingredients, and people you love.
Closing your mouth helps you hear both the outer and inner worlds more clearly.
2. Read:
Read biographies of successful people and perfumers, historical events, poetry, life stories, and the book "Steal Like an Artist" by Austin Kleon.
3. See:
See Art walks, museums, visual art, movies, people you love, and landscapes.
4. Taste:
Savor food & smell it, try new types of cuisine, and dine at fine restaurants.
5. Smell:
Smell new ingredients, plants, people, kitchen spices, rare materials, personal & household products, and any perfume.
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6. Touch:
Touch fabric textures, your car's leather, and the surfaces of daily-used objects.
7. Experience:
Travel the world, take a walk in the park, visit places you’ve never been to in your country, create five different bases with one material, and modify old fragrances.
8. Play:
Be Crazy, think of unique juxtapositions, overdose high-impact materials, build new DNAs, go to an arcade, and seek out adventure.
9. Study:
Study historical perfumes, successful creations, others' creations, fragrance materials, and fragrance molecule chemistry.
10. Feel:
Feel the meaning behind song lyrics, the emotions of others, the writer’s state of mind, and the aura your fragrance will create.
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