DIY Solid Perfume... for pennies!

So after making beeswax candles I was looking at the ingredients in my I'm-smelly-stick-it-in-my-pocket solid perfume and it's mostly beeswax and apricot oil, plus fragrance.  I realized that with a shot glass and a little bit of heat I could make my own sweet smelling solid perfume for much (much) less than Whole Foods wants for Pacifica's Waikiki Pikake (which is very nice BTW).

So I melted a little bit of the beeswax... maybe 2 Tbsp with 2 Tbsp of Apricot oil.

I heated a small pan 1/2 filled with water and put the shot glass in the middle for that double-boiler effect.  After it melted I added 5 drops of Absolute rose oil and 5 drops of Jasmine (Pikake is Hawaiian for Jasmine).  Wow!  I ended up with about 5x the amount of one of those metal solid perfume containers and it smells great.  It was very easy too.  I think next time I would add a little bit more oil to make it less waxy and more spreadable.

Rose oil is amazing (it calms, relaxes, and lifts you up) but it's also very expensive.  I get mine in bulk directly from Bulgaria right here.  I also buy my lavender oil there (the most useful of all oils except for maybe olive oil).  I buy my Jasmine on the web here.