Workshop: Botanical Perfume Making
Plants have been used in many forms since antiquity in devotional rituals and celebrations, to fragrance the air, anoint, cleanse, heal, beautify and to stir the senses. Discover these origins and the remarkable role of aromatic plants in this immersive workshop, where you will enjoy a hands-on, interactive time embracing the theory and creative art of botanical perfumery. With this new knowledge, plus sampling and discussion, you will be guided on basic perfumery composition and blending in order to create your personal 10ml natural perfume rollerball blend to take home.
We’ll be covering:
The origins and history of perfume
Understand perfume vocabulary – the art of smelling and training the nose
Perfume structure – Top, Middle, Base notes
Difference between oil and perfume alcohol based fragrance blending
Fragrance classifications
Secrets of blending & dilutions
Safety and storage
Meet Tanya
Tanya (TIDHA, MIFPA) trained as a Clinical Aromatherapist, which led to further studies in natural perfumery. She now combines her clinical work with delivering events and workshops in blending, botanical skincare and perfumery; and provides conceptual fragrance ideas for events, museums and public spaces. She has a passion for unusual ingredients, botanical history and use of plants in folklore. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @perfumemistress and find out more about her work on her website here.
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per academic year (Oct 23- Jul 24). To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK23’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, this deposit will be refunded to you after you attend the workshop.
Please note that you will be required to fill in a Southwark Council form, including some personal information, in order to confirm your place on a workshop. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed in full
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