2025 London Craft Week/Future Perfumes: An Introduction to Sustainable Scents
- Two hours discovering innovative renewable perfumery materials with a 30ml bottle to take home.
- £60.00
In the sustainable scent masterclass, visitors spend two hours discovering innovative renewable perfumery materials. Create your own fragrance and test a sample of Sarah McCartney’s new perfume, made from upcycled naturals, sustainable molecules and organic grain ethanol.
Unlike many crafts, we don’t expect perfume to last forever; like food and drink, ikebana or sandcastles, we appreciate them while they last. In the modern world, fleeting pleasures must be sustainably sourced, with responsible results. For that reason, craft perfumers are seeking out ethical growers, biodegradable molecules and green chemistry for lovers of fine fragrance.
It is widely assumed that natural materials are the answer, but it’s rarely that simple. The future of perfumery is careful stewardship of resources. Producers are now using more effective methods of extraction and upcycling waste products: growing musk molecules from sugar cane waste, extracting oakwood aromas from spent whisky barrels or cedarwood essential oil from sawdust, upcycling osmanthus petals to make a plant-based leather aroma.
Smell and use all these materials and more, including a green chemistry biodegradable lily scent and a delicious chocolate waft from upcycled cacao husks.
Classes take place at our 4160Tuesdays studio in Hammerssmith.
Monday 12th May 2-4pm and 5-7pm
Tuesday 13th May 2-4pm and 5-7pm
Thursday 15th May 2-4pm and 5-7pm
The class includes a refillable 15ml French glass bottle of perfume.
