Making Scents

Ok, smelling like real good after work would be great! And getting comments about how you smell would be greater. Hannah Follis, 24, who research and development chemist at Illume, a candle manufacture located in Bloomington, Minn. There she makes different kinds of candle that are scented.

As a student in high school she always looked forward on going to Biology class. She enjoyed learning about the science of living organisms. Interested in this brought her to a University, which she majored in biology and minored in chemistry. After college Follis wanted to gain professional experiences in a laboratory. She had found a career from an ad on CareerBuilder.com, which were scented candles. She stared form there, processing in making scents for candles. She master perfumes extract essential oils from fruits, flowers, bark, or leaves, and mix them with other chemicals to make fragrance. She enjoys doing this Making different kinds of scents for candles, developing them, getting all the ingredients and making a candle, that smells so good.