Crafting Your Signature Perfume: Sensory Exploration through Fragrance

Step into the world of natural perfumery with a workshop designed to expand your sensory perception and creative storytelling. Participants will craft their own personalised perfume oil while engaging in sensory exercises that evoke connections between scent, memory, and emotion. Drawing inspiration from the ancient art of perfumery, dated back from 4000 BCE, this immersive experience offers a glimpse into how fragrances have been used for personal, ritualistic, and medicinal purposes for thousands of years.

The workshop begins with a sensory grounding activation through breathwork and exercises, helping participants anchor into their bodies and heighten their awareness. From there, you’ll explore an array of engaging sensory stations through all 5 senses, sound, sight, taste, touch and smell. After exploring flowers, herbs, woods, and aromatic botanicals, there will be anonymous oils to engage with to practice connection and communication with our own bodies. We will identify and describe scents in terms of touch, taste, and emotion—a nod to the concept of synesthesia. 

As the oils are revealed, their medicinal and scientific properties will be shared, showcasing their holistic effects on mind, body, and spirit. This synesthetic approach invites participants to perceive perfume as more than a fragrance: it becomes a creative language, an art form, and a tool for storytelling.This exercise will then lead to a plentiful open canvas of more oils to craft their own unique signature perfume. This immersive process will enhance their sensitivity to scent and deepen their understanding of the creative scenarios behind storytelling fragrance creation. 

Discover how scent can transform into a multi-sensory experience, bridging the ancient and the modern, and leave with a one-of-a-kind fragrance that reflects your personal journey.

The evening will be facilitated by Jovanna Kay, a multi-sensory artist with a background in perfumery, dream analysis, and entrepreneurship. Jovanna brings a psychological-holistic approach to fragrance creation that intertwines storytelling, emotion and medicine.