Scent Lab: Make Your Own Perfume
What makes a perfume smell expensive? Why do some scents disappear in minutes while others linger all day? And what happens when you mix something floral, woody, smoky, or sweet?
Join us for an intimate, hands-on perfume making workshop where we’ll explore the art and science of scent, then experiment with creating a fragrance that's entirely your own.
No perfume knowledge (or chemistry!) needed. Come curious, experiment, and meet some new people along the way. You're very welcome to come solo.
• What You'll Do:
Learn the Science of Scent
Get a beginner-friendly introduction to how perfume works - fragrance notes, volatility, top/heart/base structure, concentration, and why certain combinations work together.
Explore a Palette of Fragrances
Smell your way through a curated collection of citrus, floral, fruity, woody, musky, gourmand, and more unusual notes. Find out what you're naturally drawn to.
Design Your Perfume
Choose a direction and start experimenting. Maybe you're making something warm and woody, bright and fresh, dark and smoky (or something we don't have a name for yet).
Blend, Test & Iterate
Mix a first version, smell how the notes interact, compare creations with other guests, and tweak your formula until it feels like yours.
Bottle Your Creation
Give your fragrance a name, bottle your final formula, and take it home with you.
• What You'll Leave With
Your own custom 10ml bottle of perfume
Your personal fragrance formula, so you can recreate it
An understanding of how perfumes are constructed
And hopefully, a few new people you enjoyed meeting
👥 Limited to 9 people
⏰ ~90 minutes
🎟️ $60 all materials included
Your hosts:
• Sayo is a multimedia artist regularly hosting creative workshops
• Tony is a former chemical engineer with a passion for chemistry and making scents