The Scentâme Workshop · Angel, Islington

Composed in London.
Worn only by you.

Step in from the street to a studio devoted wholly to perfumery — walls of fragrant materials, the hush of the blending bench, our perfumers at your side. Compose a fragrance note by note, and carry home a bottle nobody else on earth will ever wear.

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Angel, Islington·Small groups·From £85.00·Led by our perfumers

The house of personal fragrance

A seat at the perfumer’s bench

Scentâme was founded to give anyone a seat at the perfumer’s bench. Our workshops are developed and taught by our perfumers, built on the materials and methods used by the great fragrance houses, and kept deliberately intimate. You don’t come here to learn about perfume. You come here to make one.

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The workshops, in detail

Five ways to compose

Start hereFrom £85.001 hr 30 minMax 14

Perfume Making - Beginners

The introduction. Ninety minutes, no experience needed: you learn how a fragrance is built, then make one.

Smell 70 materials across citrus, floral, woody, amber and fresh, guided by one of our perfumers
Learn top, heart and base, the way perfumers compose
Blend on a 0.001g scale and finish one 15ml eau de parfum
Leave with your bottle and a formula card, with your formula kept on file for life
Complimentary tea, coffee and refreshments will be available throughout the workshop for you to enjoy while you create and refine your fragrance.

Best for

First-timers, birthdays, hen parties, gifts

Next available

Saturday 24 October

10:30 – 12:00 (London)23 Arlington Way, London, EC1R 1UY

Spaces available

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Go deeperFrom £120.002 hr 30 minMax 14

Perfume Making - Advanced

Same bench, an hour longer, and a much bigger palette. For when you’ve done an introduction, or want more than one bottle: you make two perfumes, using rare naturals and the molecules that control how a scent projects.

Smell 100 materials, including rare naturals like jasmine sambac, rose absolute, oud and sandalwood
Learn how molecules change a perfume’s projection and diffusion
Compose and refine two 15ml perfumes, with a second blotter trial to push your direction
Finish with a one-to-one debrief on your formula

Best for

Returning guests, fragrance enthusiasts, refining a signature scent

Next available

Saturday 24 October

13:00 – 15:30 (London)23 Arlington Way, London, EC1R 1UY

Spaces available

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Think like a perfumerFrom £175.002 hr 30 minMax 14

Perfume Making - Masterclass

The technical one. Where Advanced is about taste, Masterclass is about method: you work from a brief to a formula, the way a professional house does. Not a first visit.

Smell 120 materials, with naturals and aroma-chemicals side by side
Weigh to 0.001g and iterate by formula percentage
Work from a brief to build a structured formula, with guidance on how it would scale to production
Leave with two 15ml perfumes, a typed formula card, your lab notes and a one-to-one critique
Complimentary tea, coffee and refreshments will be available throughout the workshop for you to enjoy while you create and refine your fragrance.

Best for

Aspiring perfumers, indie brand founders, serious collectors

Next available

Saturday 14 November

16:00 – 18:30 (London)23 Arlington Way, London, EC1R 1UY

Spaces available

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Start from a descriptionFrom £195.003 hrMax 4Intimate

AI-Generated Blend Workshop

No blank page. Describe the scent you want in your own words — a memory, a comparison, a mood — and we generate a starter blend before you arrive, so all three hours go into shaping it. Four guests at most.

Every blend draws straight from Perfume Foundry, our database of raw materials and accords, so you’re building on real formulation knowledge from the very first sitting.

Three hours in the studio with a perfumer
Your starter blend is ready before you touch a single raw material
Refine strength, sweetness and longevity with a perfumer, in a group of no more than four
Blend on a 0.001g scale for precision mixing
Leave with one 15ml bottle, with your formula kept on file for life
Maximum 4 guests per session — kept small and intimate

Best for

People who know what they want to smell like, but not how to get there

Next available

Sunday 8 November

12:00 – 15:00 (London)36 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9HF

Only 4 spots left

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Private · for two£350.00 for 22 hr 30 minMax 2PrivateIntimate

Date Night

The only one you take as a pair. The studio is yours alone for two and a half hours, and you each compose a fragrance for the other. Neither of you smells it until the end.

Two and a half hours of private studio time for two — nobody else is booked in
Smell 70+ materials — citrus, floral, woody, amber and fresh — guided by one of our perfumers
Each of you composes a fragrance for the other, revealed and worn at the end
Blend on a 0.001g scale for precision mixing
Canapés throughout, and white wine from the moment you arrive
Leave with two 15ml eaux de parfum, one each, with both formulas kept on file for life so either of you can reorder
Maximum 2 people — this session is booked for you alone and cannot take additional guests
£350 for two people (£450 on peak dates) — one flat price covering both guests, not a per-person rate
Larger bottles are available for sale for an additional cost

Best for

Anniversaries, birthdays, a first date with nerve

Next available

Friday 13 November

18:30 – 21:00 (London)23 Arlington Way, London, EC1R 1UY

Only 1 spot left

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Private bookings for two

The studio, just the two of you

The studio to yourselves — no other guests booked in. One flat price covering both of you, with drinks included. Booked instantly, no quote, no waiting.

Wedding Custom Perfume

PrivateIntimate

Your wedding has a look and a soundtrack. This gives it a scent.

£500Includes 2 people

4 hrMaximum 2 peopleSundays

A private afternoon in the studio, booked for the two of you alone, building a fragrance for the wedding day — worn down the aisle, and kept on file afterwards so it can be made again on every anniversary. Most couples build it around a place or a season rather than a note, and we work outwards from there.

Four hours in the studio with a perfumer
Sparkling wine throughout
One signature fragrance composed for the day itself
Two finished bottles to take home
Your formula kept on file, to be re-made for every anniversary
Maximum 2 people — the studio is booked for you alone

Book Wedding Custom Perfume · £500

The Scentâme workshop, set for a private event

Private & corporate

Private bookings

Hen parties and bridal suites. Corporate afternoons for teams at the world’s most interesting brands. Private client tables for birthdays and anniversaries. We host private workshops on weekdays, weekends and evenings, tailored around your theme, your brief and your guest list — and every guest leaves with a finished bottle, individually signed and named by them.

Hen & bridal afternoons

Corporate team experiences

Private client & VIP events

Birthdays & anniversaries

Custom briefs, colours & palettes

Every guest names their own perfume

Add to your experience

Turn an afternoon at the bench into a full occasion.

Wine & Champagne

A curated pour list to match the afternoon — Champagne, English sparkling, or a sommelier-led flight.

Food & Drinks

Light bites, canapés, and non-alcoholic pairings to keep the group going.

Private host

A dedicated perfumer + host for your group, yours for the afternoon.

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Corporate & large groups

Your team.
One bench.

We host corporate fragrance experiences for teams of 10 to 100+. Whether it’s an off-site, a client evening or an internal away-day — every guest composes their own perfume at the bench, guided by one of our perfumers. No kits, no shortcuts. The same session your paying customers book, scaled for your group.

We work with marketing, HR and events teams to build the brief around your theme — from a house scent everyone contributes to, to individual bottles with your branding on the label. We come to you or host in our Central London workshop.

Groups from 10 to 100+We scale the bench, the team and the kit to match your headcount.
Your branding on every bottleCompany logo, campaign artwork or a custom label — printed and applied on the day.
Bespoke house scent optionThe whole room co-creates one fragrance that becomes your team's signature.
Dedicated perfumer & hostA senior Scentâme perfumer leads the session from brief to bottling.
Venue flexibilityAt our Central London workshop, at your office, or at an external venue of your choice.

Enquire about a corporate booking

Bespoke quote · Any group size · Weekdays & evenings

What’s included

Perfumery session

A full guided experience — raw materials, formulation, blending — for every guest.

Finished bottle per guest

Each person leaves with their own named eau de parfum.

Tea & coffee

Included for every group as standard — we keep you going through the session.

Past corporate clients include

Teams from finance, fashion, media and tech — as well as brand launches, client appreciation evenings and leadership off-sites. If you have a budget and a group, we’ll build the brief around you.

Led by our perfumers

Every session, a perfumer at the bench

Every Scentâme workshop is taught by one of our working perfumers. We keep the table small and the expertise at the bench — so every question is answered, every accord is refined with you, and every bottle that leaves with you has been touched by a professional.

Our workshops are developed around the materials and methods used at the great fragrance houses. No pre-mixed kits. No shortcuts. A real composition, at professional concentration, weighed and balanced the way perfumers work in a lab — drawn from the widest perfume-workshop ingredient library in London.

Professional materials

Small groups

Lab-precision weighing

A scent only you own

Widest ingredient library in London

Take it home

What you leave with

Included

Your finished bottle

Weighed, filtered, labelled with your name — nobody else owns this scent.

Included

The experience

A proper afternoon at the bench, guided by a working perfumer from start to finish.

Gifting

Give an afternoon in the workshop

A Scentâme workshop is a gift that doesn’t sit on a shelf. Digital vouchers are delivered instantly, valid for twelve months across any workshop, any date. Let them choose when — and what — they’ll create.

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Instant delivery · Valid 12 months · Fully transferable

Good to know

Frequently asked

Not for a moment. The Beginner Workshop is designed for guests with zero experience and is our most-booked session. You'll be guided through every step by one of our perfumers, and leave with a finished bottle you're genuinely proud of.

A real eau de parfum, composed to professional concentration. We use the same raw materials, methods and equipment you'd find in a working perfumery lab — not pre-mixed kits.

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Perfume Making - Beginners

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Saturday 24 October

10:30 – 12:00 (London) · 1 hr 30 min

23 Arlington Way, London, EC1R 1UY

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A seat at the perfumer’s bench

Moments in our workshop