it's Valentine's Day and we want to do
something special to make a perfume
something that will really turn all the
viewers on if only you could smell it
making perfume is pretty
skilled if you make really Posh ones you
need lots of components so it lasts all
day the cheap ones just evaporate
quickly once you're out of the shop it's
gone so let's see what we can do and Sam
has found a great bottle and this is the
bottle in which we're each going to put
in something to make the Periodic Table
of videos perfume I thought a bit
laterally today and I've got here um a
natural product comes from
ladybirds and ladybirds use it to signal
to each other to tell them to congregate
so it attracts ladyb birds so this is
called hodam it's one of about five or
six molecules that they make and use for
this sort of thing uh so I'm going to
put this into our potion if it works for
ladybirds who knows maybe it'll work for
ladies just drop that in there I'm going
to use vanilline vanilline is chemical
that gives vanilla its flavor I feel
that this will suggest chocolate and ice
cream and make people feel really quite
good it's a solid so we got to dissolve
it in something to make the perfume
usually people use a mixture of alcohol
and water as the basis of a perfume I
shall use my mlay
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foda it's a nice way solid the
vanderin let's mix some
in this is citronellol and and this is
the a classic smell of lemons you know
it's it's that amazing zesty smell that
really really is beautiful but it's very
strong and very intense so we don't need
very much of it Valentine's Day is about
romance you know and the next molecule I
wanted to put in was one which which is
quite nostalgic for me cuz it's a it's a
molecule that I worked on quite a lot
not only is it going to be of a warm
tone to the perfume but it's also going
to give some color and and that molecule
itself is is cinnam alahh so um this is
the smell of of of cinnamon cookies and
and an apple pie this is in incredibly
intense smell so here we go we're going
to add it to the mixture just a few
drops there my contribution Brady let's
give it a bit of a mix and you can see
the color of the cinem aldhy already
starting to come into the mixture here's
our perfume so far um and the thing that
I'm going to put in into the perfume is
boron trioxide probably know if you've
seen my Boron video that I do have a
love of boron so on Valentine's Day
maybe I'll get a little bit of boron um
Boron doesn't usually come in perfume
very much but I thought I'd try and put
a little bit of a boron compound in say
about that much
in there it goes
make sure that's on before I so I'm
going to add some of my lunch which
happens to be a bar of chocolate CU a a
traditional Valentine's gift so why
chocolate well of course it's got a
chemical basis and here's the compound
I'm interested in it's called theob
bromine um there's no bromine in it it
just happens to be the name of the
molecule cuz the plant is called theob
broma so it's it's very similar to
caffeine if we swap this hydrogen with a
methyle we got caffeine and how it works
is very similar to caffeine it makes
your heart beat a little bit faster and
your blood vessels dilate so you get a
little bit laded just very much like
falling in love apparently so I'm going
to go to lab melt some chocolate and add
it cuz even the smell is really enticing
okay I'm going to take a couple of drops
and add it to the Love perfume there the
little potion
one two three I think the people who
make real perfumes in perfume companies
are called
noses they smell
things really well and in their office
they have a whole range of different
chemicals and they makes them together
to produce special
effects if you own the company you're
frightened your nose might go away to
somebody else and take your secret
recipes so the owners of the company
remove all the labels from bottles and
just put ABC D and so on so the noses
never quite know what their favorite
ingredients are but as long as they stay
at that company they can mix the
chemicals all right so I'm going to add
a compound called eugenol and uh it
smells quite nice so you can see it's
kind of a pale yellow liquid I don't
know if you can see that okay I've put
in three
drops so what I'm going to add now is um
I'm going to add a little bit of bling
to our uh perfume so what I'm going to
add is some Platinum so I've got what
I've got in here is a solution of a
material called hexachloro platinic acid
I think it's going to add a little bit
of Glamour to the uh perfume because you
know platinum jewelry is obviously uh
very popular at the minute very
expensive so we're going to have the
world's first uh perfume that actually
contains Platinum
hey all right oh
wow it actually smells quite nice um I'm
getting notes it's flowery it's it's not
unpleasant actually I don't know if I I
wouldn't use it but um it looks weird so
I think there needs to be something to
cheer it up a bit um given that we're
talking about Valentine's and love the
color that's associated with love and
passion is red we've got here uh direct
red 23 which is a d it's kind of a very
dark
color um I've have no idea how much to
put into this so we'll just trial and
error see what happens if we put this
in it went from being this really
horrible kind of unappetizing
unattractive almost yellow color to
something now you look at it it looks
red okay it's a bit maybe it's a bit
like blood but actually when you think
about love you think that red is the
color of love you got an idea for the
name about perfume by the
way of course the perfume will be called
Mel of
dream M of dream