Important Note
This particular formulation of fragrance oil has been specially crafted to ensure compatibility with soaps, candles, reed diffusers, perfumes, haircare, skincare, and cosmetic preparations. Please be advised that this oil may not be suitable for use in cold air diffusers, as it is an extremely potent formulation. For that specific need, we recommend customers to select our other specially formulated fragrance oils designed for that specific application.
NO. 83 - Bibliothèque Fragrance Oil
Scent Profile
NO. 83 - Bibliothèque plays with your senses like a time machine. It will transport you to the libraries of yesteryear, go to the Library Of Alexandria or the British Library in the Victorian era or even New York Library in the 1920’s.
It evokes, pulling a leather-bound book from its dusty shelf and opening the pages. It has its unmistakable fragrance. And not every book smells the same. Scrolls from Alexandria would have been imbued with wisps of incense. You can almost smell those historic books from here.
The rich woody notes of Teakwood swirl with accords of Cedar, Leather and the earthy notes of Patchouli. It is a cacophony of rich, deep and complex base notes all singing together to create this masterpiece.
Sink into a capacious leather chair with an ancient tome and indulge yourself in your favorite pastime with NO. 83.
Fragrance Notes
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- Top: Elemi, Teakwood
- Middle: Leather, Cedarwood
- Base: Amyris, Cade, Dark Musk, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Vetiver
Flashpoint
> 200 °F
Use for NO. 83 Fragrance Oil
Aromatherapy
First, don’t be fooled into thinking this is a ‘novelty’ fragrance oil with little scope. It offers you amazing versatility. It’s deeply complex, especially in its range of base notes and can be very useful for blending.
Rich, heady notes of Teakwood, Sandalwood and Leather, meld with earthy Patchouli and Vetiver. A dark ribbon of Musk and a dash of tar notes from Cade, deepen it down even more. It is dark, sensuous and evocative. We think it is rather distinguished and utterly sublime.
Let it transport you to the magical libraries of yesterday and encourage you to take a pew, grab a book and have a delicious moment of pure escape to yourself.
83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil is a complex, but distinguished fragrance oil. Therefore, it is an ideal choice for most spaces in the home. Greeting you with dark rich woods, sensuous Leather and earthy undertones, make it an ideal choice for your signature home scent and layering with essential oils.
Reed Diffusers and Candles
It is a great choice for any room in the home, especially for more intimate settings, like bedrooms, dining rooms, man caves and home libraries.
It is incredibly versatile because of the range of notes. Use it to create an exclusive, distinguished and sensuous atmosphere. It encourages you to indulge yourself, if only for a moment of pure book heaven…. or just pure escape!
Custom Soap and Bath Products
We love this as a choice for historic or book-themed cold process or melt-and-pour soap to fragrance your body and bathroom beautifully. But it offers much more than that and can create an extremely distinguished, elegant and upmarket end product.
Give it a go when you are making distinguished beauty gifts and toiletries with a rich, heady and complex feel to them. This scent offers unrivaled complexity with notes that linger and keep you coming back for more. The scent blooms and unravels over time with this one, especially as it dries down into those deeper notes.
Air Fresheners and Linen Sprays
It is so easy to make a room spray with NO. 83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil. Use it to scent the furniture, sheets, and carpets. Set the scene in your chosen rooms with a quick spritz of this time traveling distinguished fragrance.
Crafting Projects
83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil is a popular choice for making candles, reed diffusers and soy wax melts with a range of deep heady notes, providing an elegant and distinguished finish. Ideal for any space in the home.
It is also a popular choice for making historic and book themed beauty gifts and toiletries, where you want to transport people to the past. It blends so easily with other herbs, florals, and woods to create unique body lotions, hand creams, and bath oils.
IFRA Guidelines for Maximum Dilution
Maximum dilution for this fragrance oil depends on the products you are planning on making.
It should be noted that maximum dilutions are from a safety aspect only, based on the chemical composition of the oil. In some cases, these are very high because all components are relatively benign. These amounts are not necessarily recommendations of how much to use in your recipe. They may smell too strong or make the item prohibitively expensive to produce. As long as you remain below the advised limits, you can be as generous or parsimonious as you like. Use more, use less. We’ll leave the creative stuff to you.
Based on the ingredients used, as per the International Fragrance Regulation Authority, the following maximum dilutions apply.
Directions for Use
Candles
Candles and related scented items fall under Category 12 of the IFRA safety standards. 83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil has no restrictions on use for category 12. Feel free to use as much or as little as pleases your nose.
Soaps and Bathroom Fragrances
83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil lends itself well to bathroom products. Maximum dilution for soaps, shampoos, or any other IFRA category 9 product is 41.75%. This category also covers laundry pretreatment and cleaning products.
Maximum dilution for making an aerosol room spray or any other item that will be propelled using a pump is category 10B and there are no restrictions.
Hand Made Perfumery
Fragrance oils make wonderful additions to handmade perfumes. For cologne in category 3B designed to be applied to freshly shaved skin, a maximum dilution of 23.03% is appropriate. This would apply to both Eau de Toilettes and fine fragrances. For hydroalcoholic perfumery products in category 3A, designed to be used on unshaved skin at a maximum dilution of 23.03%.
Body Care
As per the IFRA regulations, the maximum safe dilution for 83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil for category 5A is set at 5.47% if it is used for body creams, foot care products, insect repellents or talcum powder.
For specialized hand creams or fragrance hand sanitizers in category 5C, the maximum dilution would be 5.47%.
Safety & Additional Information
Safety Caution
83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil is not approved under IFRA safety guidelines for any kind of lip or mouth-related products as per their categories 1 and 6.
We recommend testing a small amount before scaling up to larger-size formulations. As with all Vinevida products. These fragrance oils are intended for external use only and should not be ingested under any circumstances.
83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil is not a pure essential oil, but rather contains fixatives to make a longer-lasting and more fragrant product. It works beautifully for Candle Making, Soap Making, and in Personal Care Applications such as Lotion, Shampoo, and Liquid Soap. This list is not exhaustive and we invite you to play, create, and invent a million other ways to use it. We recommend you test a small amount before scaling up to larger-size formulations. As with all VINEVIDA products, these fragrance oils are intended for external use only and should not be ingested under any circumstances.
While 83 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil will have no therapeutic properties, because it is a synthetic product, it’s a wonderful way to scent your home. Have the best time experimenting and making your home an ever more beautiful expression of you every day.
Protect Surfaces and Furnishings From Fragrance Oil
As oil-based products, fragrance oils may stain polished surfaces, furniture and furnishings. Please protect surfaces before use.
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Recommended Applications
The above usage amounts are recommendations only. Fragrance strengths will be influenced by the type of base you are using. Different wax types, soaps, and lotion base will produce different effects. If you decide you would like your fragrance to be stronger than these outlined above, please consult the attached IFRA certificate guidelines to discern how much more you can safely add.
