Smelly Science~Making Perfume

For this edition of our Smelly Science class we made perfume. It was really fun to do and our results surprised us. We we chose two different types of roses and one of our peonies.

the peonies

Justin chose the red and white rose

Kaden chose the pink rose. We added the petals to some warm water.

We mixed them for several minutes

next we strained the flower petals from the water.


then we smelled the water

We also smelled the petals to see if they still had any fragrance. They did but not as strong as when we started

Kaden smelling his perfume

finally we compared the three perfumes to see which was the strongest.

Any guesses? We thought for sure the peonies would be the strongest because they had the strongest scent to begin with. We were wrong, the roses were stronger and it was hard to tell which had the strongest scent.

Another fun experiment!