2025 Workshops
2025 Live Workshops - Our Shop
We’ve got three kinds of perfumery workshops (plus guest events).
1. One Day Perfume Making Courses
Join us for one of our Saturday perfume making courses from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (or 6 p.m. if you need longer).
These hands-on sessions offer an introduction to perfumery and are perfect for an afternoon of fragrance making.
Find out more about - Perfume Making with Sarah McCartney
"I'd ummed and ahhed about doing a perfume workshop for ages. Sarah's are the real deal, not an 'experience day.' I left with a bottle of unique fragrance I adore and a new—and potentially expensive—passion for all things olfactory. The best day!" – Elinor, Workshop Attendee
2. Brick Walls & Flaming Hoops
Come to one of our Tuesday workshops from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. if you want to learn how to navigate the exciting (and slightly tricky) world of perfume production.
It’s a professional workshop for people making perfume to sell. We cover perfume safety and manufacturing regulations and techniques.
Get all the details here - Brick Walls & Flaming Hoops: how to launch your fragrance
3. Five Day Perfume Making Courses
We've released our Scent School dates for 2025. These are five day workshops for people with a serious interest in perfume.
Ready to get serious about perfume making? And maybe have a little fun along the way? Learn more here:
"If you're looking for a deeper understanding of perfume, away from the mainstream and best-seller options, you've knocked at the right door." – Cesar, Workshop Attendee
We shall also be adding short workshops at events, exhibitions and fairs we attend around the country throughout 2025. So check back here or sign up for our newsletter if you think you might fancy coming along to one of these.
Already booked a workshop or holding a voucher? Drop us a message to check available dates!
You can also join our online Patreon Perfumery Community: Scenthusiasm Scent School
In 2019 I set up a Patron community: Scenthusiasm Scent School. It's a monthly subscription (or you can book for a year and get a discount).
It is for everyone who would love to learn more about perfume making with monthly assignments, Zoom Q&A sessions and regular posts on perfume making. I'd been asked for several years if I could put our classes online, for everyone who wasn't able to travel to West London and this was a good way to do it. Now there is a library of formulas, films and discussions already in place for everyone who signs up.
Perfume making starts at £10 + VAT per month for Maker Level 1 because I really want to share our combined knowledge as widely as possible. I would rather have 100 interested people paying £120 a year, than 10 people paying £1200 a year to join in.
Maker Level 2 includes more Zooms and additional formulas.
Maker Level 3 is for people who intend to do this professionally.
Perfume can be all too "exclusive", and excluding people is nothing to be proud of (I.M.H.O.) so I'm making it as inclusive as I can manage.
Our Patreon is for people who would like to join a worldwide sccent making collective, to practise making fragrances, discuss and share ideas, formulas and materials. There are options for people who want to make their own fragrances, have our new fragrances sent to them, and both those things.
The community already includes indie perfumers who already have their own brands, totally beginners, and everyone in between, plus vloggers and bloggers who want to know more and people who're just interested in perfume making and like to be part of it.
I have an arrangement with patrons so they can buy my materials if they like, and there are discounts for events and classes. If you're interested, please click the red Patreon button. The more people we have, the more time I can spend on it.
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