2024-07-29 10:29:28
Nilam Creative Member Class activities at the secretariat of Aneuk Muda Aceh Unggul Hebat (AMANAH), City of Banda Aceh. Doc: AMANAH.
jpnn.comBANDA ACEH – Dozens of participants attended the Creative Nilam Member Class at the Aneuk Muda Aceh Unggul Hebat (AMANAH) secretariat, Banda Aceh City. The activity, which took place on July 26-27, 2024, was filled by an internationally certified perfume instructor, William Sicher Wijaya.
“The first day we learned to do something called smelling. So, (learning) perfume is the earliest, the most basic is we smell,” said William when interviewed on the sidelines of the first day’s activities, Friday (26/7).
Participants from various regions in Aceh Province gained a lot of knowledge about perfume making. One of them is how to smell and distinguish the main or single aroma (single note).
William explained that single notes consist of several families that are usually used as basic ingredients in making perfume. Among them are citrus, fruity, woody, floral, fixative, amber, green, leathery, spice and powdery.
“Smelling works in perfumery. Starting from determining the top, middle, base. Then, there are several notes that come out of the top-middle-base such as modifiers, accessories. In addition, we also learn to categorize perfumes based on their families,” said William.
Next, the participants are directed to “marry” aromas from different families to produce an attractive scented perfume as desired. The blending of the basic ingredients will later produce a certain accord.
In the mentoring activity titled “Scent Crafting Journey”, AMANAH uses patchouli oil as one of the elements in the accord. So, William encouraged the participants to be creative in making perfume using the ingredient.
“So, the centering is patchouli but we will make this patchouli interesting so it is not just the smell of essential oil (pure oil) but we modify it to make it more interesting,” he said optimistically about the potential of patchouli oil as a superior product in Aceh.
AMANAH held a creative patchouli class with young Acehnese and presented a perfume instructor.