San Francisco Perfume Workshop with Ayala Moriel

All-naturals perfumer Ayala Moriel has been composing perfume for years and her workshops are especially welcome for perfume aficionados who really want to learn a bit more about the craft. In that spirit she's organising another one of those in San Francisco this Saturday July 7th. Please find all the details below and stay tuned for more news by Ayala Moriel on these pages soon! This July, Ayala Moriel's Traveling Perfume School returns to San Francisco with a weekend perfume making workshop to co-inside with the Artisan Fragrance Salon. If you'd like to dip your toes in the deep water of the art of perfumery, there is no better way to do it!

When: Saturday, July 7th,4-6:30pm
Where: Alex Sandor's Art Studio 1650 Bush Street (Between Franklin & Gough) San Francisco, CA

 Regular price is $300, but we're offering this class for $150 just to cover the raw material and supplies costs. This will include a beautiful splash/spray bottle that you will be taking home with you, with your own perfume name on it!

To RSVP - call Ayala at (778) 863-0806, or book online here. Space is limited to 10 people, and is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

 WORKSHOP DETAILS: Learn how to design and create your own personal perfume from precious botanical essences, in pure grain alcohol. By the end of the workshop, you will have made a perfume to take home with you. We will provide you with a spray bottle, and your own professional-looking label! The regular price for this workshop is $300, but we're offering it at an introductoroy price of $150 to just cover the raw material and bottles costs. There is space for 10 students only.

 ABOUT THE LOCATION: Alex Sandor's Art Studio is a unique hair salon that takes aesthetics and sustainability to the next level. The beautiful studio is furnished with toxin-free, salvaged and recycled materials and is a serene spot where you can enjoy a serene atmosphere and elite services.

 ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Ayala Moriel is the founder of pioneering natural perfume and bespoke company Ayala Moriel Parfums (est. 2001). She designed countless custom perfumes for discerning customers, celebrities and perfumistas from around the world; as well as for other brands such as - Bodhana's line of 5 natural solid perfumes; and eco-friendly house cleaning products Sapadilla; and collaborated with esteemed tea masters, candle-makers and chocolatieres to create cutting edge lines of scented teas, candles and fragrant chocolate bars. Ms. Moriel has been teaching for 5 years a long term professional natural perfumery training course, as well as many perfume making classes and workshops for amateurs and fragrance lovers of all ages. She was invited to teach and speak in other schools and organizations, including St. George and the BC Association of Practicing Aromatherapists. Her students have launched their own independent perfume and natural products brands, i.e.: Lucy Miller (Lucy Miller Pure), Stacey Moore (Lux Vivens), Monique Trottier (Botany of Delight), Anita Kalnay (Flying Colors), and more.

Le Labo Synesthetic Series: Workshops for Perfume Aficionados

Le Labo are organising perfume seminars/workshops for fumeheads in London, so if you're close (or visitng), this is your chance to participate in a one-of-a-kind experience under Nicola Pozzani.


As part of Le Labo’s mission to increase customer’s knowledge on perfume, synesthetic provocateur Nicola Pozzani will introduce you to a one-of-a-kind series of creative workshops. This is a unique workshop experience currently offered only in Le Labo London. Le Labo Synesthetic Series is a series of 5 syneshetic workshops about perfume, which will take place once a month, on Sunday afternoons at Le Labo Devonshire Road’s boutique in London. Students will experience perfume by using the 5 senses with a synesthetic approach, which means they will explore the connections between the sense of smell (the one directly related to scent) and the other senses (vision, touch, sound and taste). Students will then develop their perfume knowledge through their sensory perception and their creativity.
Le Labo Synesthetic workshops will be 100% interactive. Working in small groups, Students will learn about Le Labo fragrances and the finest perfume ingredients they are made of. Students will then engage in practical sensory exercises and by doing so will become actively involved in experiencing the connections between perfume and other sensations. This synesthetic experience will help them expand their knowledge of scent. Furthermore, by exploring the sensations perfume can transmit, students will have the chance to experience perfume as an art form, as a creative language and become aware of the creative scenarios that lay behind fragrance creation. They will eventually become more sensitive to scent and gain a newly discovered perception of perfume.
Nicola Pozzani is a perfume professional and Cambridge CELTA qualified English teacher who has combined his passion for perfume and teaching experience to create these workshops. He studied sensory languages and
synesthetics at Università dell’Immagine in Milan, where he studied Perfume Science with Jean Claude Ellena. He has worked on sensory and research projects for a variety of beauty and perfume companies. He lives and works in London.

Le Labo Synesthetic Series scheduleWhen : Every last Sunday of the month from January to May 2011
Time : 4 pm to 6 pm
Where : Le Labo London – 28A Devonshire Street, London W1G 6PS
Price : 45 Pounds
Number of places : maximum 6 per session
RSVP : lelabolondon@lelabofragrances or +44 20 3441 1535

pic via fragrantmoments

Cinquieme Sens NYC Perfume Workshop

Cinquième Sens is a company founded in Paris in 1976 taking its name from the Fifth Sense, our sense of smell. They are now offering training programmes and workshops for the appreciation of fragrance for professionals as well as fragrance lovers.
First training will be on Sept 23rd (Tuesday) /24th (Wednesday) at the Cinquième Sens Madison Avenue office, in New York City.

This introductory programme to perfumery techniques and the language of scents includes:
1)Stages of development of a perfume (raw materials vendors and perfumers, brands' marketing to packaging, legal matters concerning supplying)
2)Understanding the sense of smell (physiology, emotional responses, odour memorising principles & techniques, different types of raw materials and their classification, extraction procedures, pyramidal composition, different concentrations)
3)Language for describing scents (olfactory study, how to formulate an accord, perfume classification, study of leading perfumes)

To book your place or ask about prices and availability, please contact Laëtitia Longuefosse, Director USA at +1 646 251 5221

Photo of Olfactorium anniversary of 20 years celebration (5 June '08) via Aurélie Dematons of Cinquieme Sens. Not to be reprinted without permission.