THE ART OF NATURAL PERFUMERY

BEGINNER NATURAL PERFUMERY &

SENSORY ANALYSIS WORKSHOP

Since 2014

2025

CREATE YOUR OWN CUSTOM  NATURAL PERFUME

In this 2.5 hour hands-on workshop, you’ll learn the basics of oil-based natural perfume creation.

PRICE INCLUDES Oil kit to take home : 10 pure and precious essential oils, absolutes and resins from all over the world. See below

WHEN:

January 25 : PRIVATE WORKSHOP (booked)

March, Sunday 2, 2025. Registration deadline: February 16

IN PERSON (home setting in Barrhaven, Ottawa)
TIME: 1:00pm
DURATION: about 2 /2.5 hours depending on the number of participants

REGISTRATION & PAYMENT DEADLINE: two weeks before the class

  • SMALL GROUP CLASS: min 4 max 9 people - $ 100

  • BIG GROUP CLASS: min 10 max 15 people - $ 80

  • SMALL GROUP CLASS: 3 people - $ 200 each

  • SEMI-PRIVATE CLASS (2 people): $150 each

  • PRIVATE CLASS $ 300

WHAT THEY SAY:

“Thank you very much Stefania. I absolutely loved the class. Exactly what I was looking for. I appreciate your passion and knowledge!”
Nicole M. - Ottawa

Stefania brings incredible passion to her work and is extremely generous with her wealth of knowledge of essential oils, both scientific and esoteric. She has opened my eyes to something I didn’t know existed and can’t wait to learn- vibrational aromatherapy. To top it off, her products are diverse, and lovely. !” Tania M. (Ottawa- Ontario)

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

Program:

  • What is Natural or Botanical Perfume

  • Natural Perfumery, Aromatherapy and Synthetic Perfumery

  • The art and science of blending, exploring and smelling essentials oils, absolutes and resins

  • Developing an olfactory vocabulary

  • Introduction to Fragrance Families

  • Perfume notes and the fragrance pyramid

  • The art of smelling and training the nose developing creativity and fragrance ideas

  • The link between memory, emotion, imagination and scent

  • Safety, dilutions, storage, creating a formula and record keeping

  • Making your first perfume

 

Beginner Natural Perfume Class includes:

  • Oil kit to take home : 10 essential oils, absolutes and resins. These are 1-2 ml each (depending on the oil) of very high quality essences from around the world. The kit will allow you to practice at home and make more perfumes .

  • 15 ml carrier oil (Fractionated Coconut Oil: it is a colorless scentless fixed oil)

  • Two roll-on glass bottles (5 ml) for your finished perfumes.

  • Vials, pipettes

  • Hands-out

FAQ

  • I’m allergic to perfumes, so I guess I cannot attend the workshop.
    I am allergic to all the perfumes, as well as to all chemically scented commercial products . This is the reason why I use essential oils: they are not “perfumes”, they are pure aromatic essences , completely natural. If you are not sure, let me know if there is a particular essence you don’t like.

  • Is this a workshop for women only?
    Absolutely not: the Emperor Nero once spent 24 million Euro to fill his Domus Aurea (villa) in Rome with rose essence. All merchants of aromatic oils were men and even Leonardo da Vinci was an expert of the Art of Natural Perfumery

No previous experience is required!
Students should bring a notebook to class, all other materials will be provided on the day of the workshop.

PHOTOS: Grasse, Provence (France) - 2013

Stefania at Studio des Fragrances  Galimard

NATURAL PERFUMERY BEGINNER'S  KIT

SELECTION OF ESSENTIAL OILS, ABSOLUTES AND RESINS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.

The oils will be chosen among the olfactory group list (see below), depending on the availability .

OLFACTORY GROUPS AND FRAGRANCE FAMILY

WHAT WE USE IN OUR PERFUMES

Absolute as defined by ISO 9235
Concrete: as defined by ISO 9235
Essential oils: as defined by ISO 9235
Extracts: as defined by ISO 9235
Oil Vegetable
Resinoids: as defined by ISO 9235

CITRUS: Light and fresh

Lemon (Sicily or Sorrento -Italy),
Bergamot (Calabria, Italy),
Grapefruit (France),
Orange (Sicily, Italy),
Mandarin (Sicily, Italy) ,
Lime (Mexico),
Petitgrain sur fleurs (Egypt),
Petitgain bigarade (Egyypt) , etc

AROMATIC: Aromatic herbs

Rosemary ( Italy),
Clary sage (France),
Lavender (Italy) ,
Thyme (Italy) ,
Eucalyptus (Italy), etc.

Agrestic: Hay (Bulgaria), etc.

FLORAL: Floral notes

Neroli (Italy, France, Tunisia, Marocco), Jasmine Grandiflorum (Egypt), Jasmine Sambac (India), Damask Rose (Bulgaria), Rosa centifolia (Marocco), White Rose (Bulgaria), Linden Blossom (France/Bulgaria), Gardenia (Colombia, South America), Mimosa (France), Osmanthus (Thailand/France), Magnolia (China, France) , Tuberose (India), etc.

Powedry-floral: Iris (Italy), Violet (France)

 

ORIENTAL : warm and exotic, spicy and dark, musky

Spicy: Ginger (India), Cardamom (India),Black Pepper (Madagascar), Cinnamom (India), Clove (Bangladesh), etc.
Woody: Cedarwood (Italy, Marocco), Sandalwood (India, Australia), Guaiacwood (Paraguay), Agarwood (Malaysia, Thailand), Palo Santo, etc..
Smoky-leathery: Tobacco (Bulgaria), Amber fossilized (Himalaya)
Musky-floral: Ambrette (Peru')
Musky-ambery-balsamic: Labdanum (Spain), Cistus (Spain)
Resinous: Frankincense (Oman), Myrrh (Somalia)
Balsamic-vanilla-like: Benzoin, Liquidambar (Honduras)

GOURMAND: edible tasting

Coffee beans (Italy/El Salvador)
Vanilla boubon (Madagascar)
Cognac (France or Romania)
Cocoa (France)
Tonka beans (Brazil).

EARTHY

Patchouli (Indonesia)
Vetiver (Haiti)
Oakmoss (France)

Earthy-floral-spicy: saffron (India)

 

WHAT WE DO NOT USE IN OUR PERFUMES

Alcohol (natural or synthetic)
Aroma chemicals from chemical synthesis of petroleum derivatives.
Aroma chemicals from chemical synthesis of natural raw materials  
Natural molecules isolates obtained from essential oils
Natural molecules (Isolates) from bio technology
Ogm ingredients