A day making perfume - currently online

Perfume days for people with a little experience or a lot of enthusiasm (or both).

With friendly video guidance from Sarah

Downstairs at our studio is for making fragrances, and here at Raynham Road we now have a dedicated workshop room upstairs. As well as whole days, we also run afternoon new-to-perfume events both with a maxiumum of twelve people. 

But it's closed owing to Covid-19.

So instead of what we've listed below, you will get a kit with 23 materials, enough to make 6 x 15ml bottles, so you can share it with your household if you're feeling generous.

We've made videos, include 12 4160Tuesdays samples, scent strips, pipettes, labels and mixing bottles. You get a workbook with plenty of formulas to try out, and space to invent your own.

We may see you back here one day, but in the meantime, learn at home.

"One day in the studio is not enough, I need to go back soon. Best thing ever for any perfume lover!" Monique Rausch.

You have morning and afternoon sessions with access to our own materials, both natural and synthetic. You'll take away a 30ml bottle of finished fragrance*, and all your experimental blends too.

You'll smell a range of materials and learn how to blend them. It can be quite hard work - lots to learn - but you get as much help and guidance as you need from 4160Tuesdays' own indie perfumer, Sarah McCartney.

The morning

We arrive between 10.30 and 11 for a drink and introductory chat. Some people travel a long way to get here, so we allow time for arriving and settling in. You'll smell a carefully curated range of perfumery materials, both naturals and synthetics, and learn they they work differently within a fragrance blend.

We generally head out for lunch around 1.20. There are cafés, pubs, restaurants and shops minutes from the studio.

The afternoon 2 ish – 4.30 ish (sometimes later...)

Blend a scent of your own, using professional perfumery materials. The session includes all materials and equipment, plus tea, coffee, fruit, cake, unusual cordials and a 30ml bottle of your own individual perfume. (We open a bottle or two of champagne at the end.)

*The formulas are yours to do whatever you like with, and if you need more of your fragrance, you can photograph it and we'll make it up for you.

Cancelling: Ts & Cs

We realise that things crop up that people weren't planning for, but our workshops sell out, and we can't always resell spaces at short notice - although we do try. 

If you cancel 30 days or more before your workshop we will refund you completely.

If you cancel between 14 and 28 days beforehand, we will move to you to later date.

If you cancel within 14 days, you can pass your seat on to someone else, or you can spend the money on our perfume. Fair's fair.