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I thought the Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum splash was okay - bought 3 but wanted something much stronger and authentic so...

Shopping List
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1 litre Red Leg Spiced Jamaican Rum
I litre Food Grade Vegetable Glycerine
1 litre Stolichnaya Russian Vodka
10 litres 99.5% Isopropyl Alcohol
30 ml Pimento Berry oil - Allspice
10 ml Cinnamon Leaf oil
10 ml Cinnamon Bark oil
10 ml Clove Bud oil
500 ml Sweet Orange oil
50 ml Bitter Orange oil
50 ml Lime oil
50 ml Lemon oil
10 ml Black Pepper oil
50 ml Ginger Root oil
10 ml Vanilla oil

Oh forgot bottles - erm I`ll source some 50 ml brown glass ones presently and find my small S/S funnels.


Just waiting a couple of days for the rum, allspice, bitter orange and glycerine - not made it for a few years but seem to remember having to make a big batch because it was so popular it went like hotcakes.

Could make a litre batch but if I ask the lads I`ll probably need to do two - Now the fussy girls are much harder to please ; done a few perfumes; herbal tonics and candles but still got loads to do - I think I`ll have to call my favours in and phone a friend !

Just in time for Christmas so what I`ll do is let them smell the Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum first which is fine then I`ll get my freaky concoction out haha!
 
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I thought the Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum splash was okay - bought 3 but wanted something much stronger and authentic so...

Shopping List
___________

1 litre Red Leg Spiced Jamaican Rum
I litre Food Grade Vegetable Glycerine
1 litre Stolichnaya Russian Vodka
10 litres 99.5% Isopropyl Alcohol
30 ml Pimento Berry oil - Allspice
10 ml Cinnamon Leaf oil
10 ml Cinnamon Bark oil
10 ml Clove Bud oil
500 ml Sweet Orange oil
50 ml Bitter Orange oil
50 ml Lime oil
50 ml Lemon oil
10 ml Black Pepper oil
50 ml Ginger Root oil
10 ml Vanilla oil

Oh forgot bottles - erm I`ll source some 50 ml brown glass ones presently and find my small S/S funnels.


Just waiting a couple of days for the rum, allspice, bitter orange and glycerine - not made it for a few years but seem to remember having to make a big batch because it was so popular it went like hotcakes.

Could make a litre batch but if I ask the lads I`ll probably need to do two - Now the fussy girls are much harder to please ; done a few perfumes; herbal tonics and candles but still got loads to do - I think I`ll have to call my favours in and phone a friend !

Just in time for Christmas so what I`ll do is let them smell the Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum first which is fine then I`ll get my freaky concoction out haha!
I know so many guys `n gals in The Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Small Businesses I thought why not go to town with my home-brew bay rum for a jolly good catch-up in a week - ten days.

They`ll be all over me like rash - can`t wait - Must take my finished eleven perfumes with me - that`s nowhere near enough so will have to do twenty more ? I dunno - just guessing ! I`ll do lucky-dip ones - variety.

So had to get 40 x 50ml brown glass spray bottles (to protect from light) - You will able to smell it outside - nevermind inside haha !

Just got some Tonka Bean essential oil last week to use as a bass note and forgot how strong it is - the giveaway is the Latin - Dipteryx odorata - after putting 2 drops on my left hand to mostly test the projection and skin scent I couldn`t shake it off - washed my hands 50+ times in three days and you could still smell it on the back of my hand - that`s power ! - It`s as persistent as Garlic Oil - funny !

Making scents remind me of my Grandmother showing me how to make rose water from petals using dinner forks in a glass in my garden when I was a little boy in the early seventies - happy days !
 
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I thought the Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum splash was okay - bought 3 but wanted something much stronger and authentic so...

Shopping List
___________

1 litre Red Leg Spiced Jamaican Rum
I litre Food Grade Vegetable Glycerine
1 litre Stolichnaya Russian Vodka
10 litres 99.5% Isopropyl Alcohol
30 ml Pimento Berry oil - Allspice
10 ml Cinnamon Leaf oil
10 ml Cinnamon Bark oil
10 ml Clove Bud oil
500 ml Sweet Orange oil
50 ml Bitter Orange oil
50 ml Lime oil
50 ml Lemon oil
10 ml Black Pepper oil
50 ml Ginger Root oil
10 ml Vanilla oil

Oh forgot bottles - erm I`ll source some 50 ml brown glass ones presently and find my small S/S funnels.


Just waiting a couple of days for the rum, allspice, bitter orange and glycerine - not made it for a few years but seem to remember having to make a big batch because it was so popular it went like hotcakes.

Could make a litre batch but if I ask the lads I`ll probably need to do two - Now the fussy girls are much harder to please ; done a few perfumes; herbal tonics and candles but still got loads to do - I think I`ll have to call my favours in and phone a friend !

Just in time for Christmas so what I`ll do is let them smell the Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum first which is fine then I`ll get my freaky concoction out haha!
Oh, silly me forgot the crucial Bay Laurel essential oil (Laurus nobilis) - got 12ml vintage organic in the post.
A lot of people get the racemosa mixed up with nobilis but they`re two completely different species.
 
Roaduck

Look forward to hearing how it all turns out.

I have heard of others on this forum that have made their own bay rum over the years.

I have Pinaud bay rum in my den as well. But don’t use it as much as I used too. It’s just a bit to clovey for me. So I have to be in the mood to want to use it.
 
Roaduck

Look forward to hearing how it all turns out.

I have heard of others on this forum that have made their own bay rum over the years.

I have Pinaud bay rum in my den as well. But don’t use it as much as I used too. It’s just a bit to clovey for me. So I have to be in the mood to want to use it.
Thank You - I`m doing a custom ksblazer so I`m not putting too much clove oil in either - just a drop - it`s like garlic in a meal - it can overpower and overwhelm - so carefully does it !

Amazon is late with my Jamaican Red Leg spiced rum and that`s the main ingredient - haha !

Due tomorrow with the laurel, bay and allspice - can`t wait - 40 brown glass spray bottles on order too so lots of freaky bay rum to give away soon !
 
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I thought the Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum splash was okay - bought 3 but wanted something much stronger and authentic so...

Shopping List
___________

1 litre Red Leg Spiced Jamaican Rum
I litre Food Grade Vegetable Glycerine
1 litre Stolichnaya Russian Vodka
10 litres 99.5% Isopropyl Alcohol
30 ml Pimento Berry oil - Allspice
10 ml Cinnamon Leaf oil
10 ml Cinnamon Bark oil
10 ml Clove Bud oil
500 ml Sweet Orange oil
50 ml Bitter Orange oil
50 ml Lime oil
50 ml Lemon oil
10 ml Black Pepper oil
50 ml Ginger Root oil
10 ml Vanilla oil

Oh forgot bottles - erm I`ll source some 50 ml brown glass ones presently and find my small S/S funnels.


Just waiting a couple of days for the rum, allspice, bitter orange and glycerine - not made it for a few years but seem to remember having to make a big batch because it was so popular it went like hotcakes.

Could make a litre batch but if I ask the lads I`ll probably need to do two - Now the fussy girls are much harder to please ; done a few perfumes; herbal tonics and candles but still got loads to do - I think I`ll have to call my favours in and phone a friend !

Just in time for Christmas so what I`ll do is let them smell the Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum first which is fine then I`ll get my freaky concoction out haha!
Just the 1 litre - Reg Leg rum - which is late - naughty Amazon, 4 essential oils and the 50 ml brown spray bottles need to arrive then I can do the West Indian Bay Rum - with a Russian twist haha !

Hopefully it`ll all be here by the end of the week - can`t wait !
 
Just ordered some petitgrain oil - (twigs and leaves of sweet orange tree) and bergamot so I`m good to go - my Jamaican rum is two days late and I ordered it same day dispatch - Amazon is dire sometimes.

It`s all essential oils so more expensive but no steeping for weeks or straining and filtering plus it`ll be a lot more powerful and no lab-made nature-identical chemical-cocktail candle and air-freshener artificial muck scents either - can`t wait to bend the blend !
 
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The Rum is smooth and gorgeous - full of vanilla - needs more ginger oil though - not fiery enough .
Hope the West Indian Bay oil arrives quick - I`m itching to mix it up.
Hiya helicopter and fellow bay rum lovers - I might just be lucky today with my deliveries to rustle up something definitely different to Pinauds Clubman and perhaps even better...you never know.

As Amazon let me down (again) with a cancelled order a couple of weeks ago, my order outlay got transfered to their gift token dept and I bought a razor for my lady because they had no White birch tar oil in stock at the time (which I needed for homemade liquid Castile soap mix) - so might as well roll my sleeves up today or soon and get some fragrant Chrimbo gifts sorted out - because I want to give them out in town this coming weekend if possible.
 
I sent two bottles of my crazy creation to a member of B&B and he approves and thinks it`s better than Pinaud Virgin Island Bay Rum aftershave so I`m delighted.

It`s certainly different to a commercial aftershave containing genuine Red Leg Jamaican Spiced Rum and 100% Essential Oils - no artificial preservatives, colours or laboratory "nature identical" scent chemicals or E numbers were used throughout.

Once I get some more Rum I`ll do another batch to give away free to B&B members because I`m a mad old hippy herbalist.

I was really rusty because I had not made it for years and years and even the Dragon helped me to mix a blend and I gave it all away Saturday just gone to help raise money for the homeless who I cook for in town.
 
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