Q&A for How to Make Solid Perfume

It will smell like whichever essential oils you put in it.

Yes! Since it is a solid perfume, you can apply it to any body part you want to make smell pretty.

Yes, you can use the same recipe, but you'd have to make sure that everything you use is both food grade and "lip safe" (The skin on your lips is more sensitive than most of the rest of your skin, so you need to be a little more careful than you do for other skin applications.)

Soy wax often is used as a vegan alternative to beeswax. It's no harder than beeswax, so you can use it in the same quantities.

Either can be used, though pastilles may be a bit easier to measure out and melt. You'll probably want to pay attention more to the quality of the wax. There are various grades- some meant for candle making, some cosmetic grade, and some food grade. Cosmetic or food grade are best for something that will be on your skin. You may also want to consider scent and color. Unfiltered wax will be a deep golden color, with the scent of the bee pollen and honey that was once contained in it. Filtered waxes will be a pale ivory or white, and will have little to no scent at all. Neither is necessarily better than the other; it just depends on what you desire in the finished product.

Remelt it and add in a little bit of oil to refresh it. This will make it less dry. You can use essential oils. It'll make the perfume smell a little stronger as well.

Coconut oil has a low melting point. If used as a base, the perfume would be liquid at room temperature instead of a waxy rub.

Shea butter isn't a great carrier oil since it won't get super solid, meaning your perfume will be slightly mushy. You can add in a little bit if you like the scent, but try to stick with olive oil, grapeseed oil, jojoba oil, or almond oil as your carrier oil.

You can use fragrance oils if you'd like to. However, fragrance oils are usually made of many different scents, so it may be hard to combine them into one cohesive perfume.

Leaving the lid off probably won't heat the perfume enough to release the scent into an entire room. Try using a max welter if you'd like to convert your perfume into a room scent.