From brief to finished stock typically takes 3 to 6 months. Scent development and sampling run several weeks, maceration of the diluted juice takes 2 to 6 weeks, and packaging plus filling add more lead time. Compliance documents can run in parallel. Sourcing your perfumer, glass, and filler simultaneously through the AJ Cosmo Labs iPhone app compresses this timeline versus doing each step sequentially.
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