So I make my own cologne and while I know the basics of using fixatives, it'd be really helpful if I could predict how fast various substances, especially solids will diffuse relative to one another. Can I get this information from the scientific literature?
At first I thought that boiling point might be useful and then enthalpy of evaporation. But those numbers by themselves don't seem to match up with my experience for how stuff diffuses. So either the predicted values are way off or I'm doing something wrong.
What could be going wrong? Is one substance dissolving in oil on my skin while another isn't? Does one bind more tightly to fixative? Is there any way to predict how fast something will evaporate?
Thanks for any advice!
At first I thought that boiling point might be useful and then enthalpy of evaporation. But those numbers by themselves don't seem to match up with my experience for how stuff diffuses. So either the predicted values are way off or I'm doing something wrong.
What could be going wrong? Is one substance dissolving in oil on my skin while another isn't? Does one bind more tightly to fixative? Is there any way to predict how fast something will evaporate?
Thanks for any advice!
