Raven

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[veloaraluxury]

How to Make Perfume at Home: Eau de Parfum (EDP) Edition

There is magic in blending your own fragrances. Whereas luxury perfume brands will provide iconic scents, none will be as personal as the…

Have you ever dreamed of going beyond just putting on a fragrance and actually becoming part of it? Imagine a scent that's completely unique to you, one that's not sold anywhere else, and that tells your story without you even saying a word. It's time to become your own perfumer.

We discovered this amazing guide that teaches you how to create your very own Eau de Parfum (EDP) right at home. This isn't about just mixing a few essential oils; it's about making a fancy, long-lasting, professional-quality scent that changes as it settles on your skin.

Here's what makes it special:

The Three Essential Parts of Perfume: Every perfume has three parts. The first part, called top notes, is like the first impression—think citrus or herbs. Then comes the heart notes, which are the main body of the scent, often flowers, and they show up after the top notes fade. Finally, there are base notes, which are deep and long-lasting, like vanilla, musk, or wood. Mixing these parts is where the real magic happens. The Right Tools for the Job: This isn't just a haphazard mixing of things. You need to be precise. The guide shows you the key items: perfumer's alcohol (not just regular vodka), glass beakers and bottles, pipettes to measure exactly, and a digital scale that measures in grams. Getting your tools together is half the excitement and makes it feel like real science. Finding the Right Ingredients: Where do you get the best fragrance oils or absolutes? The guide gives you tips on where to find high-quality, concentrated oils and essential oils that really last. Because your personal scent deserves the best, not something that fades quickly.

The Full Process: This is a step-by-step guide that walks you through everything—how to calculate the right concentration (typically 15-20% fragrance oil to alcohol), how to blend everything carefully.

the most important part: the maceration. This is the time when your new scent sits in the dark, letting the molecules come together and mature into something truly beautiful.

Read full blog on this link - https://medium.com/@veloaraluxuryltd/how-to-make-perfume-at-home-eau-de-parfum-edp-edition-9cfbbeb6ae84

[crimsonservbot]

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

[stoopkidlisteningtocsh]

Was feeling Emotions than was quickly hit by very different ones upon opening the comments

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[i-fuck-audis]

MY FUCKING CAR

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[nunchler]

obviously bigotry isnt rational but "women are naturally worse at spatial reasoning and math" is a wild opinion to have when women have historically been the primary textile producers in a lot of societies. have you ever seen a tablet weaving pattern

[grison-in-space]

do you have any idea how much calculus goes into making a new sewing pattern. how much math goes into knitting. it's amazing.

[musicalhell]

Have you seen lacemaking in action?

[kirkyardbones]

I will always bring up the connection between textile manufacturing and our modern computers when I can.

This is jacquard fabric:

For much of its existence, the fabric had to painstakingly handwoven due to the complexity of the motifs that characterised jacquard weaves.

In 1804, the Jacquard punch card was patented, which enabled manufacture to be done at a fraction of the speed:

However, the above cards inspired a connection between the mathematic patterning of the jacquard cards and the idea of a precursor to our modern computers, by none other than Ada Lovelace.

There are similar concepts underpinning other forms of needlework/handicrafts - needle lace and bobbin lace is made to pattern sheets that were originally done by hand, before becoming digitised such as in the Leavers Lace machine.

This is genuinely a fascinating rabbit hole to go down and I highly recommend researching it. Math is the foundation of so much of sewing, needlework, and tailoring, and should be understood as an intrinsic part of those crafts.

[dreamingdormouse]

This! Is exactly what I do!

I'm the head of the Outreach Committee at my fiber arts guild (as well as being vice president) and while we ALSO do demonstrations at historical events, my focus has been bringing in the connections between Fiber Arts and STEM subjects, ESPECIALLY at schools!

Last spring, for example, a nearby middle school had a STEM day and invited us, so I went to the school and set up a display of various Fiber Arts tools and materials, all of which I could use, and a prompt by each one explaining how it uses math or relates to science or whatever, with notes/script I had written out for myself to explain how each one is connected. (The pictures I've included are from the same setup at a different event; I'm not putting up pictures with middle schoolers in them and I didn't catch any before/after.) I had:

A display of silk in different forms ("hankies" or unspun stretched out cocoons, handspun yarn from hankies, rough spun yarn from leftovers, beautiful slippery shiny reeled-and-thrown yarn) and a story about how sick silkworms led to research by Agostino Bassi and his very early work on the Germ Theory, who inspired Louis Pasteur, who inspired Joseph Lister (Science, particularly medical science)

An 8-shaft table loom, with a set of simple punch cards showing how a Jacquard loom would work, and how those punch cards inspired Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and how the more complex punch cards were widely used right up through the 60's and 70's (Technology)

A spinning wheel, with a mark on one side of the large wheel so you can see when it had made a complete circle, a bobbin that spun faster, and a discussion on how gearing ratios change the work you do (Engineering)

A display of knitting projects, with a book on fitting different motifs together; for instance, if you have a motif that repeats every 24 stitches, it would be best if your sweater was a multiple of 24 stitches around. But what if you also have a motif that repeats every 7 stitches and another motif that repeats every 15 stitches? This book gets around that problem by having EVERY motif be 24 stitches, but it still brings up the issue. Also, a pair of socks with a ball of similar yarn next to them, so we can talk about different ways to estimate whether or not you've got the right amount of yarn to make another pair of socks. (Math)

As a bonus, an interactive set of drop spindles attached to already-spun yarn, so the kids could spin them themselves without having to worry about messing up the yarn or dropping the spindles on the floor. The spindles were different weights and sizes, so the kids could see how that affected the length of time the spindles would spin. (more Science - physics this time!)

I didn't even get into the math of warping a loom, which usually takes me a couple of pages of scribbling notes and calculations, multiplying by ends-per-inch, adjusting for percentage of shrinkage and percentage of take-up and how much loom waste to allow, and margins of error, and stuff like that.

Oooh I SHOULD'VE brought my tablet loom. I'll have to work that one in.

[thepinkpestilence]

i wish to kiss everyone who uses it/its pronouns and is pushing 30 in 2026

[iamoutofideas]

if you’re using it/its >30 you have more mental fortitude than those monks that don’t flinch when getting kicked in the nuts

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Yay it/its elders!!

We love to see it, we need to see more of it

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[meltycure-deactivated20210804]

we owe literally no one more on this planet than the woman behind fantasy name generator

[meltycure-deactivated20210804]

her name is emily and and she runs it all by herself

[butchrozanovs]

everyone say thanks emily!!!

[octodaddi]

[brother-genitivi]

THANK YOU EMILY!

[midnight-and-his-melodiverse]

Thank you to Emily at Fantasy Names Generator, for providing all the fantastical names I could ever need for anything!! :D

[confield]

You cannot say that a top grossing artist is "feral" or making you "feral." You are listening to the Billboard Top 40. You are very domesticated.

[breadcunt]

Stupid ass take. The fame of the artist doesn't define how it makes you feel. Do you not see me go hogwild eating potatoes, easily one of the top 5 most well known vegetables

[confield]

We're like shooting stars you and I

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Final Round

Senshi (Dungeon Meshi)

Ryland Grace (Project Hail Mary)

Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune)

Voting ended onJul 20

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

[kitcatia]

Senshi (Dungeon Meshi): 84687 votes (36.8%)

Ryland Grace (Project Hail Mary): 59779 votes (26.0%)

Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune): 85456 votes (37.2%)

Tenna has the lead by 0.4% (closer to 0.33% though) and 764 votes!

Keep up with the spreadsheet for live updates on a lot of extra data, including how far we are from beating sans x reigen in vote number!

TUMBLR POLL (using data from https://glittering.world/poll-grabber)

[hamkittens]

Mod #2 here! - Senshi (Dungeon Meshi): 95811 votes - Ryland Grace (Project Haily Mary): 63972 votes - Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune): 95985 votes tenna has the lead by 174 votes!

also, how yall likin the spreadsheet now? i purdyd it up a bit, i work with spreadsheets for a living hehe

[kitcatia]

MOD 1 HERE

Senshi (Dungeon Meshi): 96018 votes (37.46%)

Ryland Grace (Project Hail Mary): 64040 votes (24.98%)

Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune): 96258 votes (37.55%)

Tenna has the lead by 0.09% and 240 votes!

data as of 14h07, BRT

Keep up with the spreadsheet for live updates!!!! NOW WITH PRETTY COLORS

TUMBLR POLL (using data from https://glittering.world/poll-grabber)

[hamkittens]

MOD 2 HAS TAKEN BACK OVER FOR MY LUNCH BREAK! ill also be back this evening when im home from work

and respectfully i aint typing allat i have less than an hour and im scarfing down a salad as we speak

and AY. i didnt put that artfight plug. (thank you kit i love you kit)

TUMBLR POLL (using data from https://glittering.world/poll-grabber)

[hamkittens]

mod 2 is here with mod @yuyuyu-frog WE'VE GOT LESS THAN 30 MINUTES LEFT OF THE POLL! if you wanna see live updates CHECK THE LINKS ABOVE! Senshi: 113491 votes (37.6%) Ryland Grace: 70323 votes (23.1%) Ant Tenna: 119972 votes (39.4%)

[hamkittens]

FINAL COUNT OF THE LIVE UPDATE SPREADSHEET!!!!!!!

our count got 304,778 for some reason, but tumblr says the final count is 304,777? dunno who the extra person is but we tripled checked our count. anyway.

🥉Dr. Ryland Grace (Project Hail Mary): 70427 Votes (23.11%) 🥈Senshi of Izganda (Dungeon Meshi): 113885 Votes (37.37%) 🥇Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune): 120466 Votes (39.53%)

Congratulations Mr. Ant Tenna for winning the 2026 Tumblr Sexyman Competition!!! may you slay a fine politician

[nando161mando]

[jacketslutjayse]

Source

How The Rise of Androgyny Changed Our Passports

The rise of androgyny and unisex fashion in the 1970s was apparently responsible for the introduction of a sex marker in passports.

[milf--adjacent]

Oh wow so me saying "no government documentation should ever include a gender marker for any reason" has been right all along. For exactly the reason I stated when people were giving me shit for not supporting x markers on documents.

[saurekin]

version of the source that doesn't require you to be subscribed to view it

How The Rise of Androgyny Changed Our Passports

The rise of androgyny and unisex fashion in the 1970s was apparently responsible for the introduction of a sex marker in passports.

[memory--box]

to anyone who missed it:

blorbo - a favourite character

glup shitto - star wars names are fucking nonesense

eeby deeby - youre going to hell

plinko horse - a horse that was stuck in a plinko board

scrimblo bimblo - super smash bro fans can be very angry when characters aren't in a game

[feyariel]

Me, so I can view the original meme:

[thetum-blrdictionary-deactivated]

bonus:

[memory--box]

People keep tagging this as educational and I don't know what to do or think about that.

[thescaredfluid]

Glossary of Terms

[dovewithscales]

I don’t know if I should be amused or distressed by the realization that someday this post will probably be useful to linguists.

[heptadecagon-studios]

Hi, linguist here. It is

[starry-ratings]

A small reminder that last time we got a fic from Toby Fox and I unfortunately doubt that the creators/va of Senshi or Ryan Gosling would have much of a (if any) reaction to their characters winning

I think this is one of the reasons why voting Tenna is honestly the funniest option cuz getting a fic on Tenna Deltarune from the guy himself (who btw wasn't even sure if people would like him) would be diabolical

C'MON EVERYONE LET'S SHOW NOT ONLY TENNA BUT ALSO TOBY HIMSELF HOW MUCH WE LOVE TV!!!

IT'S! VOTING! TIME!!!

Post by @mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026 · 1 poll

💬 1707  🔁 7111  ❤️ 11506 · Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Final Round Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

ALSO MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT @saberspirits'S POST FOR THE MAIN PROPAGANDA WALL FOR TENNA IF YOU'RE STILL UNSURE IT'S BEAUTIFUL

[antisouppp]

HE NEEDS THIS!!! DONT MAKE HIM GLOOBYY

[hail-dondus]

Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees

[cartoonistfreak101]

Thank you blastybaku for explaining this!/gen

[poetry-protest-pornography]

If you've ever heard a movie score and thought "holy shit, this is incredible", there's like, a 50% chance it was Hans Zimmer who composed it.

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

Anyways, fuck transphobes, which includes Hans Zimmer, apparently.

[excessively-english-jd]

Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.

[vvvermw]

role swap designs i made lol. this took way too long. and also my thoughts here too