What Will I Learn in a Perfumery Workshop?

A fragrance that is 100% your own!

If you’ve ever been curious about perfume but felt a little intimidated by it, my workshops are designed to make the world of fragrance feel open, creative, and fun.

In a Bodi Botanica perfumery workshop, you do not just smell a few pre-made accords and call it a day. You get introduced to the real building blocks of perfume and learn how fragrance is actually constructed.

I teach what I like to think of as the ABCs of perfume, from aliphatic to zolvent and everything in between. We explore a wide range of materials across the organ, from citrus to herbs, rose, moss, and even some of the stranger, more challenging corners of perfumery. Yes, sometimes that includes things that smell a little urinous, yeasty, animalic, earthy, or downright weird. That is part of the magic. Perfume gets much more interesting when you realize it is not all just pretty flowers and vanilla.

From there, I teach you how to create a scent story.

This is one of my favorite parts of the workshop. A perfume is not just a random collection of nice smells. It is an atmosphere, an image, a mood, a world. A classic example might be: a single red rose on a wooden table in the sunlight. That image gives us a direction, a feeling, and a palette to work from. Once you understand that, you create your own scent story and begin building toward it.

Then we blend.

I guide you through the process of selecting materials, experimenting, adjusting, and shaping your fragrance toward your goal. You learn how notes interact, how to balance a formula, and how to trust your nose while still working with structure. Once your formula is where you want it, we scale it up and bottle it.

And of course, your fragrance needs a name.

By the end of the workshop, you leave not only with your own custom scent, but with a much richer understanding of how perfume works and how perfumers think.

What makes my workshops different is that they are truly hands-on and rooted in real perfumery. A lot of perfume classes out there are lighter, more limited, or more juvenile in approach. Mine are absolutely beginner-friendly, but I give you access to a full organ of materials, not just ten simplified accords. That means the experience is much more expansive, more creative, and ultimately more rewarding.

These workshops are wonderful for beginners, fragrance lovers, curious creatives, couples looking for a unique date, mothers and daughters, gift experiences, or anyone who just wants to do something beautiful and different. They also work incredibly well for baby showers, bridal showers, birthdays, and sip-and-scent gatherings.

At the end of the day, it is fun, surprising, sensory, and memorable. You learn a lot, make something entirely your own, and leave with a deeper appreciation for the art of perfume.

If you’ve been wanting to try perfumery, this is a very good place to begin.