Potpourri Making – Quick Method
Modern potpourri making
Here is a quick method for potpourri making! Traditionally potpourri was made using essential oils, but this could be a little time consuming and fiddly due to the need for a fixative. A fixative stops the oil evaporating straightaway.
A modern short cut in potpourri making is to use ready-made home fragrance oils instead of essential oils. Fragrance oils do not require a fixative as they have been manufactured to provide a good fragrance over a long period of time.
You will need:
- Potpourri base – dried flowers, petals, leaves, pods, dried fruit etc
- Home fragrance oils (not essential oils)
- Something to mix them in e.g. old tupperware
If you are using this method, then just shake all your dried flowers / potpourri ingredients in a plastic bag or old plastic tub with a few drops of oil and leave to stand for a few hours to permeate.
We make most of our handmade potpourri at daisyshop.co.uk using this method, albeit on a larger scale! We tend to make ours in small batches a couple of kilos at a time.
In the main picture above and the one below it, you can see our Sunshine Citrus potpourri. We make this using lemon and lime home fragrance oils for a zingy scent!
When you make your potpourri, you will need to take some safety considerations into account
Read more about quick potpourri making
You can visit our blog at driedflowercraft.co.uk for some related articles on potpourri making.
For example our Lavender Lime Potpourri Recipe uses this quick method.
Or here is a Simple natural rose potpourri recipe
More articles on potpourri making on the blog
Shopping links
Here are some components to look out for when shopping for potpourri ingredients: dried lavender, dried rose petals, dried rose buds, herbs, home fragrance oils. You can buy all these from our daisyshop.co.uk, our UK dried flower shop which has potpourri making and home fragrance departments.
If you have questions about this quick potpourri making method, do get in touch!